Month: December 2012

  • One day after Kevin Love’s disgruntled comments about the Timberwolves were published (see Andy G’s and my analysis here), the  Wolves play the Nuggets at Target Center tonight at 7 PM CST. Love is expected to be in the starting…

  •   The last time Adrian Wojnarowski dished on the Wolves, he was using the news of Rick Adelman’s hire as an opportune time to blast President of Basketball Operations (POBO), David Kahn.  Woj found an anonymous league source to tell him…

  • “Why do I care?” is the single most hazardous question that a diehard NBA fan can ask himself. “Junkies” like me, and those I surmise to be a large percentage of this blog’s readership, devote considerable time and energy to…

  • As my preview post made clear, I thought the Wolves should beat the Cavs without too much difficulty.  That is, unless they came out lethargic or complacent against a heavy underdog.  Cleveland is a developing team that was playing without…

  • Last night, about 20 minutes before the anticipated Knicks-Heat game was set to begin on TNT, bad news hit the Twitter waves.  Carmelo Anthony, the Knicks leading scorer and best player, would not be playing.  His lacerated finger needed the…

  • I feel bad for the fans that only tuned in for the second half.  After a couple competitive quarters of basketball that left the Wolves leading by 4 points, everything came unraveled for Rick Adelman’s team.  Boston turned the halftime…

  • Our Twolves play the Celtics tonight in Boston, my former home. I’ll be rooting for the Wolves, of course, but the Celtics are one of my favorite sideshows in the League, given not only that I lived in Boston for…

  • “We need to get some type of roll going here and, like I said, you do it by winning on the road.”  Much of Rick Adelman’s post game presser (televised on FSN North) focused on the Wolves getting on a…

  • Okay, kids, game-time is approaching. It’s Wolves vs. 76ers.

  • This is an unusually late game wrap for a number of reasons.  First, I could not watch the entire game on Friday.  My roommate just turned 30, we hosted a little party for that occasion (that later in the night…