https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/page/26/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/jaden-mcdaniels-is-taking-the-next-step-r27674/Jaden McDaniels was on an all-time heater in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals. The newly minted second-team All-Defensive ace made his first four three-pointers and six of his nine attempts overall for 24 points in one of the best playoff performances of his four-year career and his third-s...27674Fri, 24 May 2024 10:30:41 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/the-wolves-have-a-foundation-to-build-on-for-game-2-r27672/After losing Game 1 to the Dallas Mavericks 108-105, Anthony Edwards and Jaden McDaniels sat at the podium answering questions. A reporter asks if it was difficult to adjust to playing Dallas. “We came out flat today,” Edwards replied, “found our energy, then went back to being flat.” McDaniels...27672Thu, 23 May 2024 07:35:03 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/no-rebounds-no-rings-the-wolves-must-neutralize-dallas-on-the-offensive-glass-r27670/The Western Conference Finals are upon us, and the Minnesota Timberwolves are making their first WCF appearance since their historic 2003-04 season. While the NBA has changed significantly since then, so has Minnesota’s identity. They are now supercharged by size and length. That advantage over th...27670Wed, 22 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/tim-connelly-won-the-tim-connelly-bowl-r27669/It’s official, the Minnesota Timberwolves are going to the Western Conference Finals for the second time in franchise history after beating President of Basketball Operations Tim Connelly’s former team in seven games. In Zach Lowe’s reaction to the series on the Lowe Post Podcast, he noted a few k...27669Tue, 21 May 2024 17:00:21 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/game-7-catharsis-be-thy-name-a-fan-experience-r27668/As a sports-loving society, hyperbole is woven into our everyday language. We almost casually describe performances as “brilliant” or “legendary” and any significant moment as “epic” or “cathartic.” This behavior has, in some ways, cheapened the meaning of these potent words. The overuse of superl...27668Tue, 21 May 2024 12:39:23 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/the-wolves-learned-how-to-take-a-punch-in-game-7-r27667/The Minnesota Timberwolves’ locker room was calm and quiet before Game 7 in Denver. Anthony Edwards popped in, joked around with his teammates, and left shortly after. Mike Conley had his feet in an ice bath. Rudy Gobert knocked out some knuckle push-ups. A replay of Minnesota’s 115-70 win played...27667Tue, 21 May 2024 10:30:16 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/anthony-edwards-is-here-r27666/Anthony Edwards joined the TNT postgame coverage immediately following a 98-90 Game 7 win over the defending champion Denver Nuggets. Charles Barkley started to ask Edwards a question: “I have not been to Minneapolis in probably 20 years,” he said. Edwards interjected, “Bring ya ass.” It was ano...27666Mon, 20 May 2024 14:30:30 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/mike-conleys-body-is-barking-but-he-still-has-bite-r27664/Mike Conley injured his Achilles in the waning minutes of the Minnesota Timberwolves’ 115-107 Game 4 loss last Sunday. He missed Game 5 and said he couldn’t walk two days before Minnesota’s 115-70 Game 6 win on Thursday. “Had a day of treatment yesterday and was able to get to my toes a little bi...27664Sat, 18 May 2024 06:00:25 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/are-the-wolves-ready-for-denvers-final-haymaker-r27663/The Minnesota Timberwolves came to play in front of a rowdy Target Center crowd on Thursday. Game 6 was Minnesota’s first and only win at home in the Denver Nuggets series, a disappointing reality considering they won the first two games in Ball Arena. Still, the Wolves must prepare for a champion...27663Fri, 17 May 2024 17:00:38 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/one-subtle-change-unlocked-jaden-mcdaniels-in-game-6-r27661/Anthony Edwards praised Jaden McDaniels after the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Denver Nuggets 115-70 in Game 6. “I feel like when Jaden plays well, can’t nobody beat us,” he said. “Him playing like that tonight was crazy.” Edwards’s love for McDaniels is no secret. After the Phoenix Suns acqu...27661Fri, 17 May 2024 07:30:18 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/what-if-the-league-had-suspended-jamal-murray-for-game-3-r27660/Chris Finch said he didn’t see Jamal Murray throw a heating pad and a towel onto the court in Game 2. Anthony Edwards said he didn’t, either. Karl-Anthony Towns said he did, but he was focused on scoring after he missed his first shot. “I saw it,” he said. “I just was worried about making the lay...27660Thu, 16 May 2024 10:30:38 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/why-did-the-wolves-miss-mike-conley-so-much-in-game-5-r27659/The Minnesota Timberwolves quickly changed Mike Conley’s “questionable” tag to “out” in a matter of hours, knowing he would miss Game 5. Conley suffered an Achilles strain on the final possession of Game 4, sidelining Minnesota’s veteran presence as the Wolves looked to regain momentum in its seco...27659Wed, 15 May 2024 14:30:46 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/the-wolves-havent-found-a-counterpunch-for-denver-r27658/The Minnesota Timberwolves ended the regular season with a 56-26 record, good for third in the Western Conference. Even though they turned in the second-best season in franchise history and had homecourt advantage in the first round, they didn’t believe that guaranteed postseason success. “It’s a...27658Wed, 15 May 2024 07:45:11 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/the-wolves-must-revitalize-kat-to-win-game-5-r27657/Karl-Anthony Towns held himself accountable for his 5 of 18 night in Game 4. “Things weren’t falling today,” Towns told reporters after the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the Denver Nuggets 115-107, “so I take full responsibility for that.” After sweeping the Phoenix Suns in the first round, the Wol...27657Tue, 14 May 2024 10:30:53 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/ant-was-a-boxer-without-a-cut-man-in-game-4-r27656/Anthony Edwards knew the Denver Nuggets wouldn’t give up on their second-round series after the Minnesota Timberwolves took Games 1 and 2 on the road. “That’s the defending champs over there,” Edwards said after Game 2. “They’re not gonna come out and play like that again. We gotta be ready to tak...27656Mon, 13 May 2024 14:30:40 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/will-aaron-gordon-turn-into-kobe-bryant-again-in-game-5-r27655/A reporter asks Rudy Gobert about Aaron Gordon‘s remarkable performance after the Denver Nuggets lost 115-107 in Game 4. “If [Aaron] Gordon turns into Kobe Bryant for stretches, we got to be living with that.” Gobert continues, “Those shots were contested, highly-contested some of them. This is pa...27655Mon, 13 May 2024 07:25:18 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/how-did-things-unspool-on-the-wolves-in-game-3-r27654/No team has ever come back from being down 3-0 in an NBA series. People overuse that line so much that NBA fans know it by heart. Entering Game 3 at Target Center, the Minnesota Timberwolves and Denver Nuggets had much to prove. The defending champs needed to avoid flirting with the impossible. Mi...27654Sat, 11 May 2024 09:34:55 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/mike-conley-has-become-minnesotas-gipper-r27653/The Minnesota Timberwolves got their first of two regular-season wins over the Denver Nuggets in their fourth game of the season. They had looked like the same old Wolves in their first three games, blowing leads and failing to move the ball late in the fourth quarter. Minnesota had lost the seaso...27653Fri, 10 May 2024 14:30:11 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/karl-anthony-towns-is-changing-his-playoff-reputation-in-real-time-r27652/For years, “Playoff KAT” was a derogatory term. Can you use it in a sentence? There goes Playoff KAT, picking up his third offensive foul in the first quarter. Playoff KAT is in the building tonight, and he’s shooting 3-12. During his first eight NBA seasons, Karl-Anthony Towns earned the reputat...27652Fri, 10 May 2024 10:30:42 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/the-wolves-are-quickly-changing-narratives-in-the-playoffs-r27651/Rudy Gobert will get played off the floor in the playoffs. Karl-Anthony Towns can only put up empty numbers. It’s the Wolves, they won’t be a threat in the playoffs. If you hadn’t watched the Minnesota Timberwolves play this season, you might have come to one of those popular, lazy conclusions. W...27651Thu, 09 May 2024 14:30:37 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/ants-mid-range-efficiency-has-made-him-unstoppable-r27650/Three-level scoring. Being able to score effectively at the rim, in the mid-range, and from three-point range. It’s a term that you hear people throw around casually in basketball discourse. However, few players can do it effectively, especially in a prominent role and with volume. Only so many pl...27650Thu, 09 May 2024 10:30:21 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/the-wolves-recreated-the-most-difficult-part-of-denvers-blueprint-to-replicate-r27648/Monte Morris greeted many Ball Arena employees and ex-teammates as he navigated the contours of Denver’s basketball arena. Then he sat in the film room with his Minnesota Timberwolves teammates and broke down his former teammates’ tendencies. Morris is Minnesota’s mole in its important second-roun...27648Wed, 08 May 2024 14:30:36 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/what-is-finchs-injury-and-why-is-he-being-protected-on-the-sideline-r27647/After the Minnesota Timberwolves dismantled the Denver Nuggets 106-80 in Game 2, Karl-Anthony Towns and Anthony Edwards fielded a question from the Pioneer Press’ Jace Frederick about how much it meant to the team that Finch was pushing through the pain and made the trip to Denver. “It definitely...27647Wed, 08 May 2024 10:30:51 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/how-did-the-wolves-pull-off-the-upset-in-game-2-r27646/When you open a playoff series in enemy territory, the goal is usually to split the first two games. Doing so removes the opponent’s home-court advantage and allows you to go back home with the series tied 1-1 or with a favorable 2-0 lead. Winning the first two games on the road to open a playoff...27646Tue, 07 May 2024 08:45:28 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/the-wolves-havent-fully-tapped-into-ants-superpowers-against-denver-r27645/Last year, Anthony Edwards had decided that he wouldn’t allow an opponent to sweep him in his career. He had sat in front of his locker room mirror after Game 3, confronting the reality that the Denver Nuggets were one game away from knocking the Minnesota Timberwolves out of the playoffs in four...27645Mon, 06 May 2024 10:30:48 +0000