MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — For a team that didn’t make any major moves during the summer, the Minnesota Timberwolves sure have their share of new players this season.

The critical process of familiarization and integration will speed up over the next week, in the form of a trip to California to continue training camp and play a couple of exhibition games while Jimmy Butler’s unresolved trade request looms in the background .

The Timberwolves will be out of town for seven days, a prime time for bonding.

“They can spend a lot of time together. We’ll have good practices, some film sessions, some team dinners, so I think it’s good,” coach Tom Thibodeau said Thursday, before the traveling party boarded a plane for the Bay Area. The Wolves play the defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors on Friday night.

With draft picks Josh Okogie and Keita Bates-Diop and veterans Anthony Tolliver and Luol Deng, the Wolves will sport a significantly different look to their bench. When — or if, as Thibodeau has insisted — the Butler deal goes down, the freshness factor of the roster will only increase.