Can the Wolves break the streak?
The Lakers have won 21 straight over the Timberwolves heading into tonight’s tilt at the Target Center. With the Lakers vying for a playoff spot and the Wolves coming off a dominant win against Detroit, could tonight be the night when the hex ends? That’s why I’ll be watching.
Stay healthy, my friends.
Punch-Drunk Wolves 
Dallas surging, Utah resuscitated, Lakers getting injured again…
It’s time to do our part and BEAT LA!
If I’m not mistaken, it would also mark Ricky’s first back-to-back victories of the season. Feels like the right time for some ACL catharsis.
Amen, brother. I like where your head’s at. BEAT LA!
(I think we’re all silently chanting BEAT LA! right now in our offices or cubicles or wherever we are. I know I am.)
It says something that I’d rather see Dirk’s beard fill the 8 seed than this senior tour version of the Lakers. (Since I usually side with Kobe, come playoff time.) A win tonight would be satisfying indeed; rare to get such a meaningful game during Tanking Season. I suspect the Wolves juices will be flowing tonight.
@Andy G: I don’t think we’ve ever discussed this, but I’m curious: Which LAL team do you DISLIKE more, the current group, or the Kobe/Shaq/Mailman/Glove group, and why?
I strongly disliked that earlier group because it was the peak of the Kobe-Shaq drama (which was incredibly unlikeable on many levels–for each guy) and they stacked the deck much like Miami did in 2010.
I don’t actively dislike this Lakers team — I’m just bored by them. Nash and Kobe are shells of their old selves (even if Kobe still finds a way to score a ton.) Dwight has a bad back and isn’t used enough on offense. It’s just a mediocre team that gets more attention than it deserves.
But I disliked the earlier group more. I didn’t start cheering for Laker teams in the playoffs until Shaq left. I was a fan of Kobe — not the team and certainly not team with Shaq.
Concur. As questionable a fit as Nash and Howard have been in LA, Payton and Malone was even worse. Mixed in with the Shaq-Kobe drama, it was terrible times in LaLa. If you’d have told me in 2007 that you could have a team with Kobe, Nash, Artest, Howard, and Gasol, and that that team would be coached by Mike D’Antoni, but that said team wouldn’t be particularly fun to watch, I wouldn’t have believed you (or thought it possible). But I’d have been wrong. Weird world. Keeps the NBA interesting.
Silently?
@Brett A: Ha! Maybe not. (I know I’ll be chanting it loudly in the Blogger’s Lair if the game is close down the stretch.)