https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/page/127/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/was-trading-for-t-j-hockenson-overkill-for-the-minnesota-vikings/There are many reasons to believe in the future of the Minnesota Vikings’ offense. Even with questions about who will be under center, the Vikings have assembled a top-tier infrastructure to bring the best out of any quarterback.   But just as much as an elite set of tackles and a generational wi...16069Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/karl-anthony-towns-is-at-a-crossroads-in-his-career/Karl-Anthony Towns is at a crossroads in his career. His latest playoff clunkers have put the Minnesota Timberwolves in a deep 0-2 hole against the Denver Nuggets. Towns is two games away from completing his eighth season in the NBA, he’ll be 28 in November, and he’s nearing the midway point of hi...16067Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-vikings-best-option-at-23-is-to-not-make-a-selection/The draft is an exciting time of year because every team gets better, adding players they hope will develop into meaningful contributors and even future stars. Teams have to be smart about how they navigate the draft, and the best ones get the most value out of the resources that they have. The Mi...16066Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-trickle-down-effect-of-the-pablo-lopez-extension/The Minnesota Twins agreed to a four-year extension with Pablo López this week, crossing off multiple goals on their checklist along the way. They secured a star-level player through his prime years, created cost certainty, and rewarded a player that is by all indications a very likable person. No...16065Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-wolves-salvaged-some-momentum-in-their-game-2-loss/Coming off a 29-point loss in Game 1, the Minnesota Timberwolves were searching for a much-needed win before the team headed back to Target Center for Games 3 and 4. Following Sunday’s poor performance, fans ran to the hills with their disappointment, and the realistic thought of getting swept was...16061Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/has-emilio-pagan-found-his-role/Emilio Pagán arrived in what may be the strangest trade in Minnesota Twins history. Chris Paddack and Taylor Rogers headlined Minnesota’s swap with the San Diego Padres. Paddack is a hulking Texan right-handed pitcher who owned a 3.33 ERA as a rookie in 2019 and had thrown 108.1 innings in 2022. R...16059Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/trey-lance-is-a-massive-risk-worth-taking/Is there anything more simultaneously exciting and exhausting than the NFL rumor mill right before the draft?   It’s silly season, where NFL teams are trying to posture and bluff their way to draft weekend as they attempt to use the media in an ongoing chess match. There’s so much smoke going eve...16058Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/how-much-longer-will-max-kepler-be-a-full-time-starter/There might not have been a more popular Minnesota Twins player after the 2019 season than Max Kepler.   Since making his debut in 2016, the German-born outfielder had slowly taken strides to become a mainstay as the Twins’ everyday right fielder. Everything came together in 2019 for a monster br...16054Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/what-is-going-on-with-minnesotas-backup-guard-situation/Naz Reid and Jaden McDaniels’ injuries have hurt the Minnesota Timberwolves immensely. It is difficult for any team to lose rotational players, let alone their best defender and a spark plug off the bench. Although Naz is a big and Jaden is a forward, their injuries have opened up a deeper hole in...16053Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-twins-are-almost-there/As the Minnesota Twins progressed closer to vanquishing their big-market bogeyman, absurd stats echoed from the Yankee Stadium walls. What they had to say was borderline insulting. You haven’t won a series here since 2014. You haven’t had a four-game sweep in the Bronx since 1991. And you last won...16050Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/kat-needs-to-step-up-for-the-wolves-to-win-this-series/The Minnesota Timberwolves’ Game 1 loss against the Denver Nuggets on Sunday night was a difficult watch for Wolves fans.   After beating the young and promising Oklahoma City Thunder, 120-95, the Timberwolves ecstatically clinched their ticket to the playoffs for the second year in a row. The Wo...16049Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-draft-picks-that-could-immediately-boost-the-vikings/With the draft just days away, there is a palpable sense of excitement across the league and a massive amount of intrigue surrounding the second offseason of Minnesota Vikings general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah's tenure. Last year, Adofo-Mensah was in charge of the final four months of the NFL dra...16048Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/did-the-vikings-tip-their-hand-this-offseason/In the final moments of their NFC wild card loss to the New York Giants, everyone saw what the Minnesota Vikings needed to do this offseason. Their roster, which used to be one of the most dominant in the NFL, had succumbed to Father Time. Minnesota's fairy tale season – which included eight fourt...16044Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/how-much-blame-does-finch-deserve-for-minnesotas-mile-high-loss/It felt like a Minnesota Timberwolves upset was in store when the Denver Nuggets’ home crowd was in a whiteout, and the Wolves were wearing their white jerseys. In the three games before Minnesota took the court, the lower-seeded team managed to steal home-court advantage from their opponent. But...16038Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/pablo-lopezs-sweeper-and-fastball-are-giving-the-twins-life/Few fans predicted Sonny Gray’s acquisition and even fewer saw the Carlos Correa signing coming. However, many expected the Minnesota Twins’ rotation to be a major weak point last year. Rocco Baldelli trotted out Chris Archer, Dylan Bundy, and Josh Winder a combined 65 times for a total of 309.2 i...16037Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/will-adofo-mensahs-wall-street-background-make-draft-day-less-exciting/Some people may know Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley from Beverley Hills Cop or Reggie Hammond in 48 Hrs. Others just loved Raw. A younger generation probably thinks of him as Donkey in Shrek. But real ones will remember him as Billy Ray Valentine in Trading Places. In that film, two wealthy brothers b...16035Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-wolves-arent-completely-overmatched-in-the-denver-series/It hasn't been easy. However, the Minnesota Timberwolves have officially clinched a spot in the 2023 playoffs after beating the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday night.     While the expectation was much higher than just barely squeaking by with the eight seed, we all need to give credit wher...16033Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-wolves-played-loose-against-a-team-with-nothing-to-lose/There was unbridled joy in the Target Center as The Killers’ Mr. Brighside played at the end of the third quarter. The Minnesota Timberwolves had survived. A team that had squandered double-digit leads after half all season outscored the Oklahoma City Thunder 38-31 in the third frame. A team that...16031Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/ian-hamilton-deserved-a-shot-with-the-twins/Unless you were very plugged into the Minnesota Twins’ organizational depth chart last year, you may not even remember the name Ian Hamilton. You could have done an internet search for “Twins + Hamilton” and the right-handed pitcher would be the fourth name that came up. Billy Hamilton and Caleb H...16027Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/this-season-is-a-reminder-that-players-are-unique-and-complicated-individuals/If things went as well as they possibly could have for the Minnesota Timberwolves last season, then this year was the karmic reversal that we should have all seen coming. The basketball gods don’t impart goodness upon the Timberwolves without serious consequences to follow. That’s not how this wor...16025Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/will-a-banged-up-gobert-be-able-to-go-hard-in-the-paint/It’s not good for the mentals of a Minnesota sports fan to live in the past, and especially bad to play the what-if game. What if the Vikings ever had a competent kicker in the playoffs? What if Sam Cassell didn’t break his hip doing the big balls dance before the 2004 Western Conference Finals? A...16022Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/do-the-vikings-have-to-take-a-quarterback-in-the-2023-draft/The clock is ticking for the Minnesota Vikings.   We’re not talking about the moment when the Vikings are on the actual clock with the 23rd-overall pick in the NFL Draft. We’re talking about the clock to find their quarterback of the future.   Kirk Cousins is in the final year of his contract an...16020Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/were-getting-a-look-at-what-the-twins-are-made-of/Rocco Baldelli had a runny nose on Wednesday. He said it wasn’t anything to be worried about, but his voice betrayed the illness he was dismissing. Still, Baldelli didn’t have an upper respiratory sickness like Sonny Gray, who spun five scoreless innings in a 3-1 win over the Chicago White Sox. Un...16019Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/minnesotas-level-of-interest-in-jordan-addison-will-signal-their-offensive-strategy/The NFL Draft is just two weeks away, meaning that mock draft season is in full swing. Lately, Jordan Addison has become a favorite of analysts to go to the Minnesota Vikings. Popular networks such as PFF, CBS, and Sports Illustrated have all released mock drafts in which the Vikings take Addison...16018Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/why-did-minnesotas-offense-stall-out-at-the-end-of-the-lakers-game/One of the Minnesota Timberwolves' largest concerns of the Chris Finch era lingered in their loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in the 7-8 play-in game. Minnesota was largely in control through the first three-quarters of play despite being down Rudy Gobert, Jaden McDaniels, and Naz Reid. Much of this...16016Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000