https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/page/81/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/wolves-suns-is-the-most-high-stakes-first-round-series-in-the-nba/The NBA regular season is officially over. After finishing 56-26, the second-best record in franchise history, the Minnesota Timberwolves will go into the first round with home-court advantage for the first time in 20 years. Unfortunately for Wolves fans, several anxiety-inducing factors somewhat...18843Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/mike-conley-is-at-the-crossroads-again/Mike Conley answered questions at his locker after the Phoenix Suns thumped the Minnesota Timberwolves 125-106 in Game 82. “I think we’re a team that we haven’t looked across the court,” a reserved Conley said,” and thought we’re not better than [them].”   That confidence in himself and the team...18841Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-vikings-may-have-the-best-situation-for-a-first-round-qb-ever/Quarterback is the most important position in sports, and the Minnesota Vikings are gearing up to take their QB of the future in the 2024 NFL Draft next week. Taking a QB isn't an exact science, and it's hard to predict which of the top prospects will find success before the draft.   There are ma...18838Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/what-do-the-twins-minor-league-injuries-mean-for-the-major-league-club/Many players are down and out with injuries on the Minnesota Twins’ 40-man roster. However, the injury issues aren’t much better at all minor league levels.   Each affiliate has at least four players on the injured list, and the High-A Cedar Rapids Kernels have the fewest at four. Notable prospec...18837Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/kats-ball-movement-will-be-vital-in-the-playoffs/On March 7, the Minnesota Timberwolves were in Gainbridge Fieldhouse, taking on the Indiana Pacers. Five seconds into the game, Anthony Edwards rolled his left ankle while attempting to score against Aaron Neisimith. He immediately deferred the ball to Mike Conley and signaled to Minnesota’s bench...18834Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/have-the-vikings-gone-back-to-the-can-he-play-guard-days/The Minnesota Vikings have made several tremendous strides throughout the 2010s. They found a quarterback who gave them steady play for six years. They cracked the code and won the NFC Championship in 2017. The Vikings also found a playmaker to replace Stefon Diggs, only for him to become the face...18833Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-wolves-are-flying-awful-close-to-the-sun/Tim Connelly isn’t clairvoyant, but he knew this season’s stakes in September. “We've got to win a playoff series,” he said on media day before the season started. “It's been way too long since we've had success in the postseason.”   The Minnesota Timberwolves haven’t won a playoff series since t...18829Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-vikings-are-stuck-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-in-the-2024-draft/The NFL Draft is less than two weeks away, and the quarterback frenzy will continue to occupy the headlines until the Minnesota Vikings hand in their card on the night of April 25. Following Minnesota's mid-March trade with the Houston Texans to pick up an additional first-round selection, Skoldie...18826Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/what-does-it-mean-when-the-wolves-say-gobert-is-the-reason-they-dont-lose/The Minnesota Timberwolves had a below-average defense by relative defensive rating for seven straight seasons from 2014 to 2021. Though the high-energy, blitzing-based defense of the 2021-22 season worked well, it wasn’t until Tim Connelly swung the massive Rudy Gobert trade in July 2022 that def...18825Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/minnesota-is-primed-to-make-the-jefferson-extension-a-bargain/The Minnesota Vikings are expected to ink Justin Jefferson’s monster contract extension, finally locking up the megastar wide receiver as he enters the final year of his rookie deal. With the selection of a rookie quarterback presumably imminent, the Vikings will have the financial flexibility to...18824Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/can-austin-martin-become-the-new-nick-gordon/When the Minnesota Twins traded Austin Martin a few years ago, they believed he would be a star. The fifth overall pick in the 2020 draft, Martin was the centerpiece of the deal that sent José Berríos to the Toronto Blue Jays, but his career hasn’t gone as expected.   Martin has cracked the big l...18823Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-vikings-cant-impulse-buy-j-j-mccarthy/Former Minnesota Vikings GM Rick Spielman reached for Christian Ponder at 12th overall in 2011, and he believes the Vikings will do it again. On a recent , Spielman said that Minnesota will overpay if J.J. McCarthy is the only quarterback left on the board.  “They’re going to have to give (pick...18822Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/auburns-nehemiah-pritchett-could-be-the-answer-for-minnesotas-cb-room/A lack of high-quality cornerback play has been a consistent issue during Kevin O’Connell’s tenure with the Minnesota Vikings. Byron Murphy signed a two-year, $17.5 million contract last year. However, the Vikings still have holes to fill in the secondary, and Auburn’s Nehemiah Pritchett is a qual...18821Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/why-is-ant-shooting-so-many-bank-shots/Seeing Paul Pierce in a Washington Wizards jersey will never feel normal. However, seeing Pierce knock down a last-second shot to win the game was a staple of his career. In the final seconds of a May 9, 2015, playoff game, Pierce took an inbound pass toward Atlanta Hawks guard Dennis Schröder. Wi...18815Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/whats-going-on-with-cole-sands/While many Minnesota Twins players are still trying to find their footing in this young season, one man has been an unexpected standout on the mound in the early going. Reliever Cole Sands was arguably the last player to secure a spot on the opening-day roster, but his performance is starting to r...18812Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/austin-martin-gives-minnesotas-lineup-something-it-was-missing/On Tuesday, Tyler Glasnow tied a career-high with 14 strikeouts on 88 pitches against the Minnesota Twins. Five Twins batters mustered a hit off Glasnow. But Austin Martin had two, both doubles, in Minnesota’s 6-3 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. “[Glasnow] was better than all of us today -- excep...18810Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/what-can-the-minnesota-vikings-learn-from-the-christian-ponder-pick/A few years ago, Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold was playing a game against the New England Patriots. Darnold was struggling in front of a primetime audience on the way to a 33-0 New York Jets loss.   Darnold was mic’d up for the game, and ESPN camera crews followed him to the sideline....18809Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/nickeil-alexander-walker-is-your-seventh-man-of-the-year/It’s NBA awards season, and the Minnesota Timberwolves are poised to take home some hardware in several major categories for the first time in a generation. Despite the Twitter bot discourse around Rudy Gobert getting punked by Nikola Jokic and Christian Braun in Minnesota’s loss to the Denver Nug...18805Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-vikings-are-playing-the-field-in-their-quarterback-search/The Minnesota Vikings are taking the process of finding their franchise quarterback seriously. So seriously, in fact, that Kwesi Adofo-Mensah invoked a holy sacrament when describing his process. “Since we got here, Kevin [O’Connell has] really been adamant about, when you select a quarterback, it...18803Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-saints-pitching-depth-is-being-tested-early-this-season/The Minnesota Twins are just one team in their organization that has had injuries test its pitching depth. The St. Paul Saints also have the arms in their rotation go down early with one injury or another.   Matt Canterino ended Spring Training on the injured list with a right rotator cuff strain...18801Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/ants-quick-decision-making-is-vital-for-minnesotas-playoff-success/Being the engine of an offense is already a tough ask for any player. But to do it on a top seed looking to change the history and norms of the franchise is even more difficult. Those are the exact circumstances that Anthony Edwards faces. The Minnesota Timberwolves’ 55-plus wins are impressive, b...18799Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-twins-cant-afford-another-slow-start/In a flashback from the early part of last season, the Minnesota Twins are having issues hitting the baseball.   The Twins have scored 26 runs on just 51 hits through the first nine games. The latter was a nearly unprecedentedly infamous stat. Not just that, but Minnesota’s 26.8 percent strikeout...18795Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/towns-will-benefit-from-returning-to-a-more-physical-nba/Basketball-reference’s nicknames section is comedy gold. For some players, it is pretty straightforward. Kevin Garnett is KG, The Kid, and The Big Ticket, each nickname more iconic than the last.   For other players, it makes no sense. Corey Brewer, for example, is The Drunken Dribbler and Greyho...18792Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/carlos-correa-finally-feels-like-a-franchise-cornerstone/It was a major surprise when the Minnesota Twins signed Carlos Correa in the middle of the night in March 2022.   Correa was a superstar who grabbed fans' attention even in the poorly marketed landscape of Major League Baseball. He was a face of the Houston Astros teams that dominated the late 20...18789Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/are-minnesotas-risp-issues-misunderstanding-the-game-plan-or-lack-of-execution/Joe Ryan might be the only player in the Minnesota Twins dugout who’s upset when the Twins are giving up home runs. “I don’t want to be getting super excited when we’re scoring runs because my job is to hate scoring runs,” he said after a 3-1 loss to the Cleveland Guardians on April 6. “I’m kind o...18787Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000