Tag: kevin garnett
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Timberwolves training camp opens on Monday with their annual Media Day. Once the players and coaches are on the floor, doing actual basketball stuff, we’ll be better equipped to carry on substantive Wolves discussion. Meanwhile, there are a couple of…
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Great atmosphere at TC tonight. Awesome to have BigTicket back. Part of the family. Welcome back KG! pic.twitter.com/AJ1jt171Ih — Ricky Rubio (@rickyrubio9) February 26, 2015 Where to begin? The game itself, I guess. The game The Wolves opened up the…
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Prelude: Garnett’s Homecoming What will Kevin Garnett’s return to Minnesota bring to the Wolves and the state of basketball in Minnesota? The trade still has everyone excited. Some of it is sentimentality about “The Kid” who grew up in front…
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Last night’s win over the Suns was one of the season’s most fun games, for a few different reasons. First and most obvious: It was a close game, involving a whole bunch of fourth quarter lead changes, and the home…
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You already know the news: Kevin Garnett is coming back to Minnesota to play for the Timberwolves. In a trade-deadline deal that required Garnett’s signature to be official (he had a “no trade” clause that needed waiving) the Wolves are…
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It is often said that the Timberwolves playoff run to the Western Conference Finals in 2004 was the franchise’s apex, and the moment listed by most fans as their favorite in team history. While technically true that it was the…
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Y! Sources: Clippers reach an agreement in principle on a three-year deal to hire Doc Rivers as coach. http://t.co/5aLamsiEGe — Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 23, 2013 After a more-than-week-long roller coaster of reports involving Doc Rivers, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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As the Wolves season inches closer to its end, (we’ve been screaming ‘uncle’ for weeks now, it seems) I’ve taken a bit more interest in some of the team’s former players, many of whom are playing meaningful roles on competitive…
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Bill Simmons works for ESPN. He’s also called “The Sports Guy.” Apparently he writes a column called “The Sports Column.” He also has a podcast called The B.S. Report, which is a free-flowing conversation that occasionally touches on mature subject matter.…
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A well-known commentator writes: “Yes, right now Love has been more effective than Kevin Garnett was here, even in his prime. Love is averaging 25.0 points and 14.6 rebounds per game during his fourth professional season. Garnett averaged 20.8 and 10.4 at…
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Andy G writes: Celtics got BLOWN OUT by the Gordon-less Hornets last night. If Ainge would take Derrick Williams + every last bad Wolves contract and would send us KG (and his EXPIRING $21 million deal), would you do it?…