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Posted: Nov 12th 2009 12:45 PM ET by Tom Ziller (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Timberwolves

Imagine a world where upon trading most of your veterans and turning the team over to unproven youngsters, you have growing pains and lots of losses. It's almost as if rebuilding entails some necessary and unavoidable period of truly sucky basketball!
This is all news to one
David Kahn, boss of the Minnesota Timberwolves, who blew up the team this past summer.
After Monday's embarrassing dismantling at the hands of the (get ready for it) Golden State Warriors(!), Kahn, in quotes to the
St. Paul Pioneer Press, seemed
flabbergasted that his mish-mosh of raw players hasn't won many games.
Posted: Nov 10th 2009 5:30 PM ET by Chris Tomasson (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Celtics, Clippers, Grizzlies, Lakers, Pistons, Rockets, Suns, Timberwolves, NBA All-Star Game

I wrote in September that perhaps there would be no worthy center
to start for the West in the All-Star Game.
But this isn't the way I want to see that solved. Do it on the court, not with the ballot.
When the All-Star ballot came out Tuesday, Phoenix power forward
Amar'e Stoudemire strangely was listed as a center. Yes, Stoudemire has played center before, but he's started all eight games for
Suns this season at power forward, with
Channing Frye being the starting center.
It is true the ballot, which was selected by six media members from around the country, had to be decided upon before the season began in order to provide time for printing. But it has been apparent since at least September that Frye would Phoenix's starting center, with Stoudemire at power forward.
Posted: Oct 31st 2009 2:00 PM ET by Chris Tomasson (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Timberwolves, NBA Coaches

MINNEAPOLIS -- A look of disbelief crosses
Bill Laimbeer's face. After all, he spent years perfecting such expressions for NBA referees.
"I don't know what you're talking about,'' Laimbeer said when asked if he's teaching those on the young Minnesota Timberwolves to flop.
When it comes to flopping, Laimbeer made Manu Ginobili's moves today look rather amateurish. The former Detroit Pistons center was the all-time master.
Posted: Oct 29th 2009 2:00 AM ET by Matt Moore (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Nets, Timberwolves, NBA Videos

The
NBA isn't just made at Staples on Sunday afternoons under the lights, or in a Friday night showdown at the Garden. It's every night, players stepping up and making plays.
It's guys that will eventually be answers to trivia questions making huge shots that endear them and their teams to the hearts of young fans who first make a connection with this crazy, random, beautiful game.
The heroes aren't just the guys on posters and All-Star ballots, sometimes they are journeymen who show up every day, don't shoot a great percentage and get the job done.
Wednesday was
Damien Wilkins' day.
Posted: Oct 28th 2009 11:30 AM ET by Chris Tomasson (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Lakers, Timberwolves, NBA Coaches

MINNEAPOLIS --
Al Jefferson wasn't even born when the incident happened in 1984. But he's seen the old footage.
"The only thing I knew about Kurt (Rambis) from him playing is the highlight of Kevin McHale knocking him out,'' said the Minnesota forward.
Jonny Flynn wasn't born when Rambis won the last his four titles with the
Los Angeles Lakers in 1988. But Flynn has seen the highlights as well.
"I remember he had the high socks, the thick glasses and the short shorts,'' said the
Timberwolves point guard. "That was my first impressions about him. I said that when we first talked on the phone, and we got a good laugh about it.''
Posted: Oct 21st 2009 8:20 PM ET by Chris Tomasson (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Timberwolves, NBA Preseason

MINNEAPOLIS -- The
Minnesota Timberwolves spent the offseason loading up on point guards as if they were stocking a fallout shelter during the Cold War.
They drafted
Ricky Rubio with the No. 5 pick,
Jonny Flynn at No. 6 and
Ty Lawson at No. 18, although Lawson soon was shipped to Denver. Then, with Rubio electing to remain in his native Spain, they signed free agents
Ramon Sessions and
Jason Hart and traded for
Antonio Daniels, although Daniels won't join the team.
The chaos has settled, and Flynn has become Minnesota's starter. The reviews so far are mostly good, and credit Flynn for realizing how difficult it is to learn to become an
NBA point guard.
Posted: Oct 20th 2009 10:15 PM ET by Chris Tomasson (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Timberwolves, NBA Injuries

DENVER -- Big Al's health is no big concern.
At least that's the word from the
Minnesota Timberwolves.
Minnesota star center
Al Jefferson missed Tuesday night's 129-100 preseason loss to Denver at the Pepsi Center. But
Timberwolves coach Kurt Rambis said the primary reason was Jefferson being under the weather rather than the sore left Achilles that kept him out of practice Monday.
"Yes, he would of if this was an important game,'' Rambis said when asked if Jefferson would have been able to play Tuesday had he not taken ill and been left at the team hotel in Denver.
Posted: Oct 20th 2009 4:01 PM ET by Brett Pollakoff (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Timberwolves, NBA Injuries

Things went from bad to worse for the
Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday, when
Al Jefferson joined
Kevin Love on the sidelines due to an injury. Jefferson sat out practice with a sore Achilles' tendon, which limited him to just six minutes during the second half of the team's preseason game against the
Bucks on Saturday.
While Love's
broken hand is expected to have him back in six to eight weeks, there's no timetable yet for Jefferson, and you can bet the team is going to be extremely cautious when it comes to green-lighting his return to the court.
Posted: Oct 17th 2009 1:15 PM ET by Tom Ziller (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Timberwolves, NBA Injuries

Minnesota figured to struggle this season. The roster is young, the coach (Kurt Rambis) is new, and there are plenty of holes through the roster. But there's always an extra challenge in 'Sota, and this year that extra challenge comes in the form of a fracture of the fourth metacarpal bone in the left hand of
Kevin Love that will reportedly
sideline the power forward for 6-8 weeks.
According to the
Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Love's hand smacked against the elbow of teammate
Stewie Griffin Oleksiy Pecherov as Love collected a rebound. Fitting, that the injury would happen on a rebound, considering Love is one of the league's brightest young board hoarders. His absence will force cohort
Al Jefferson to be even more of a vacuum on the glass.