Monday’s four-player swap between the Clippers and the T’Wolves might go down as a “Twitter trade.” It was only interesting for about five minutes, and you only needed 140 characters to analyze it. There are only so many ways you can say “Quentin Richardson traded again?” or “Kahn strikes again!” without having either one become a trending topic.

But the trade had an interesting angle, besides seeing the Clippers pass the torch of “best franchise destroying front office” in the league on to Minnesota. While watching the whole thing unfold on Twitter, it became clear that Mark Madsen was just as out of the loop as everyone else. That would be all well and good, but you’d expect him to have an inside tip or two considering that, you know, he was part of the trade.

Shortly after Yahoo! Sports first posted about the trade, Madsen notified everyone that he hadn’t heard anything official about a return to Los Angeles:

“If Craig Smith, Sebastian Telfair and me to the Clippers is Real, then it’s complete news to me!”

Madsen subsequently let everyone know that the rumors were true and that he would miss Minnesota. He shouldn’t be too heartbroken though – if you’re going to be stuck in a loaded frontcourt on a team with no chance of making it to the playoffs, wouldn’t you rather be in Los Angeles than Minnesota?

Madsen’s former teammate and twitter enthusiast Kevin Love didn’t seem too enamored of the trade, saying “we lost a lot of good men out there” when asked for his analysis. I’m sure he’ll miss Madsen, but it sounds like Craig Smith and Sebastian Telfair served a more direct purpose for Love:

“I Needed Rhino to have my back, Bassy needed to Spread the Love the Brooklyn way…and Mark? Well now I don’t have a translator for rubio…”

This seems like a great opportunity for Rubio’s agent to bail out on the Timberwolves once and for all. “Wait, Madsen won’t be there? Fall back!”