Author: Andy Grimsrud
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It’s easy to forget details about last year’s regular season, because of all the fun and excitement of last year’s playoffs. The Wolves had some mild swings throughout the 82-game slog, but were pretty much just a great team from…
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The KAT trade is now completed, with each team’s announcement of the deal. With that, Julius Randle and Donte DiVincenzo will enter Timberwolves training camp, and Coach Chris Finch will begin to incorporate each into his lineups and greater plans…
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The preseason kicks off on Monday. While no Wolves team is exactly like another, this one had more roster continuity and a clearer understanding of its strengths and weaknesses than most. To preview the 2024-25 season for the Minnesota Timberwolves…
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Apologies in advance for the almost unqualified positivity in this post. I know that diehard Wolves fans that might find themselves reading these words are conditioned to strong doses of cynicism and skepticism when discussing or thinking about their favorite…
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Although I grew up a Timberwolves fan in the 90s, my obsession with closely following the team took hold in the late 00s when for the first time in my life I actually lived in the Twin Cities and could…
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“Failure…is a Dantesque, circular affair. Just as the grain of wheat has to pass through the millstones if it is to turn into something more refined, so we have to go through several circles of failure, each one of which…
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When I last wrote anything in this space, the Wolves were almost at their season nadir. They were 16-20, and just a couple hours away from losing to the lowly Detroit Pistons on the Target Center floor. Despite that set…
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The Timberwolves just lost their fifth straight game. At 16 wins and 20 losses, they stand alone in 11th place in the Western Conference. If the season ended right now, they would not even make the 7-through-10 Seed Play-In Tournament.…
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Al Jefferson should’ve made the All-Star Team. His numbers in 2009 were better than Shaq’s. Big Al averaged 23.1 points and 11 boards to O’Neal’s 17.8 and 8.4. Jefferson’s lack of team success could hardly be held against him. Ryan…
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The Timberwolves are loaded. Whatever one thinks or believes about how they came to this point, there is no escaping the basic reality. It’s a sentence that has rarely ever in history been able to be said with a straight…
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The big news around the Timberwolves is the recent hiring of Tim Connelly to head up the basketball operations. While the former Nuggets POBO technically supplants Sachin Gupta as Wolves Basketball Boss, it would be truer to say that he’ll…
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It’s All-Star Weekend, and things are peaceful in Wolves World. The team has a 31-28 record through 59 games. Through three quarters of the season they’re pacing for a favorable spot in the Play-In Tournament, with a chance at cracking…
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If you Google search “Christian Laettner + Kevin Garnett + Flip Saunders,” a top entry should be a Chicago Tribune story from February 20, 1996. The headline is, “Laettner Aims Tirade at Garnett,” and the text reads as follows: It…
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The news that Gersson Rosas was fired came as a complete shock. No matter what anyone says, there was ZERO indication that the Wolves might can their POBO with less than a week to go before training camp. Sure, some…
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The Wolves hosted Media Day on Monday, marking the beginning of the 2019-20 season. Aside from the visual experience of seeing each player — many new faces among them — the main event is the line of press conferences. They…
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In case you missed it, we are now writing for A Wolf Among Wolves. (awolfamongwolves.com).
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A few years ago, I heard about a conversation that Rick Pitino had about local prep star, Tyus Jones. I was one layer of hearsay removed from it, and it’s been a few years, but here is the general gist…
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Free agency begins tomorrow, and the Timberwolves will be looking to add a big man. While NBA positions are less rigid than they used to be, I think there’s a reasonable chance that the Wolves will try to acquire a…
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This was me, a week ago, after reading some mocks and predictions that had the Wolves selecting either a point guard (Kris Dunn) or a shooting guard (Jamal Murray) with the fifth pick in the draft: Not all that exciting…
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[We decided to do a running diary of last night’s draft. This started about a half hour before the draft began, and it ended around the time Orlando drafted Sabonis at 11 and quickly traded him to OKC. At that…