Month: August 2012

  • Andy G and I are doing a series on players you’ll be watching for one reason or another this season on League Pass. Check out the first four entries below. 1. All-League Pass Rookie 1st Team, or “Rookies You Want to…

  • Basketball usually isn’t funny.  Watching the Timberwolves evokes a wide array of emotions of mine and, if you’re reading this, probably yours too.  In recent seasons past the Wolves’ play has incited fans to boil with anger and discontent–the ones who…

  • Andy G: There is some buzz that the Wolves are looking at and possibly pursuing an old draft-projection favorite of ours: the one and only HASSAN WHITESIDE!  According to Darren Wolfson’s recent post, it sounds like the Wolves haven’t foreclosed…

  • The Punch-Drunk Wolves League Pass Series has taken on a life of its own.  We’re on Volume 5 after two rookie teams, an Eastern Conference Team, and a REACTION POST to the Eastern Conference Team.  Since Pat is enjoying some…

  • Andy G and I are doing a series on players you’ll be watching for one reason or another this season on League Pass. Check out the first three entries below. All-League Pass Rookie 1st Team, or “Rookies You Want to Watch”: http://punchdrunkwolves.com/2012/08/23/all-league-pass-team-vol-1-rookies-you-want-to-watch/…

  • Patrick J and I are doing a series on players you’ll be watching for one reason or another this season on League Pass. Timberwolves fans are naturally less familiar with Eastern Conference teams and players.  This is one reason of…

  • Andy G and I are doing a series on players you’ll be watching for one reason or another this season on League Pass. The first installment is here: http://punchdrunkwolves.com/2012/08/23/all-league-pass-team-vol-1-rookies-you-want-to-watch/  In the first League Pass Alert post, I looked at the rookies…

  • Andy G and I are starting a series on players you’ll be watching for one reason or another this season on League Pass. Here’s the first installation: Rookies you’ll want to watch on League Pass, and why you/I will be…

  • (Eds. Note–Andy G’s colleague knew that he’s a diehard Wolves fan and gave him a retro pack of Wolves basketball cards from 1990. What better time than NFL training camp to look back at some familiar faces?) Basic Bio: Born…

  • For a few reasons, I wanted to share some background on this blog and its two authors. After writing endless chains of Wolves-related emails back and forth, Patrick J and I decided to start Punch-Drunk Wolves in the middle of…

  • A while ago, I wrote a post about my top-5 favorite basketball books. I wanted to cap the list by going through my second-tier.

  • In case ya hadn’t heard, Dwight Howard is headed to Tinseltown.  He joins Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Shaquille O’Neal on the list of superstar centers acquired by the Lakers in the middle of their prime.  A player as dominant…

  • Andy G: Isn’t it a little weird that there hasn’t been much advancement (or any) in the shooting range of pro basketball players?  Like, why aren’t there 10 or more current NBA players with the CHRIS KINGSBURY range?  I ask…