https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/page/38/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/whats-next-for-naz-reid-r27251/Leading up to the 2023 trade deadline, there were widespread rumors that the Minnesota Timberwolves were receiving ample interest in rising star Naz Reid. Multiple contending teams like the Brooklyn Nets, Denver Nuggets, and Los Angeles Clippers inquired about the 23-year-old’s availability. http...27251Tue, 02 May 2023 10:30:24 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/potential-draft-prospects-for-minnesota-at-pick-53-r27250/Following the Minnesota Timberwolves’ underwhelming season, Tim Connelly finally sat down to address the elephant-sized trade in the room during the team’s exit interview press conference last Thursday. After several starter questions regarding the team’s success, or rather lack thereof, Jon Krawc...27250Mon, 01 May 2023 10:30:04 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/who-should-be-on-minnesotas-wish-list-this-summer-r27249/After losing 4-2 against the Memphis Grizzlies in the first round last year, the Minnesota Timberwolves knew that changes had to be made. As we all know, the Grizzlies dominated Minnesota on the offensive and defensive glass throughout the series as they were out-rebounded in five of the six games...27249Sat, 29 Apr 2023 14:00:18 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/do-the-wolves-have-any-option-other-than-to-run-it-back-r27248/On June 28 last year, Chris Finch said he was focused on internal development. The Minnesota Timberwolves were a week away from trading for Rudy Gobert. They had drafted Walker Kessler five days earlier. Patrick Beverley, Jarred Vanderbilt, and Malik Beasley were still under contract with the Wolv...27248Sun, 30 Apr 2023 06:00:35 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/what-constitutes-success-for-the-wolves-next-year-r27247/Kevin Durant often describes watching and playing basketball as a “spiritual” experience. Since entering the NBA in 2017, he’s been busy being one of the best, most elegant players in NBA history. He’s played alongside beautiful basketball players like Steph Curry, Kyrie Irving, and Devin Booker,...27247Fri, 28 Apr 2023 10:30:58 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/naws-former-teammate-sheds-insight-on-his-postseason-breakout-r27245/With just a few minutes left in regulation and the Minnesota Timberwolves’ season on the line, Nickeil Alexander-Walker hoisted up an ill-advised shot from the left corner. Miss. Heading into the overtime period of Game 4, Alexander-Walker had only made one of his five field goal attempts. After...27245Wed, 26 Apr 2023 16:00:14 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/the-wolves-can-win-game-5-if-they-continue-to-pick-at-jokics-weaknesses-r27242/After an impressive Game 4 win with their backs against the wall, the Minnesota Timberwolves are headed back to Denver for another win-or-go-home game. While no NBA team has ever come back to win a playoff series after starting down 3-0, the Wolves still have a lot to play for. Primarily, pride is...27242Tue, 25 Apr 2023 10:30:10 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/the-wolves-arent-completely-overmatched-in-the-denver-series-r27230/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. https://twitter.com/Timberwolves/status/1647090204740648960?s=20 While the expectation was much higher than just barely squeaking...27230Sun, 16 Apr 2023 08:00:23 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/this-season-is-a-reminder-that-players-are-unique-and-complicated-individuals-r27228/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...27228Fri, 14 Apr 2023 13:30:32 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/will-a-banged-up-gobert-be-able-to-go-hard-in-the-paint-r27227/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...27227Fri, 14 Apr 2023 10:30:11 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/why-did-minnesotas-offense-stall-out-at-the-end-of-the-lakers-game-r27226/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...27226Thu, 13 Apr 2023 10:30:04 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/the-lakers-matchup-poses-some-unique-challenges-r27222/Following a high-intensity Game 82 on Sunday afternoon, the Minnesota Timberwolves finally punched their ticket into the postseason. Heading into the year, the expectation was to make a championship run while finishing at least top five in the Western Conference. However, they didn’t meet those go...27222Tue, 11 Apr 2023 09:00:28 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/what-do-we-know-about-the-kat-gobert-pairing-after-25-games-r27216/Karl-Anthony Towns’ injury and the long adjustment period with Rudy Gobert have been detrimental to this year’s Minnesota Timberwolves team. But KAT is back, and he’s averaged 19 points per game on 44.8/36.7/88 splits in six games. It has been turbulent, though. He had a big impact in the Golden S...27216Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:30:36 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/how-much-is-finch-to-blame-for-minnesotas-struggles-r27215/Everything in Minnesota Timberwolves world is once again upside down in a season seemingly determined to teach us that the only thing we can certainly expect is uncertainty. After winning four games in a row, capped off by a victory over the third-seeded Sacramento Kings, the Wolves went on a thre...27215Wed, 05 Apr 2023 10:30:37 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/was-there-a-clear-cut-winner-in-the-mike-conley-trade-r27212/Tim Connelly has acted aggressively since the Minnesota Timberwolves hired him as their President of Basketball Operations in late May. Roughly two months after he agreed to join Minnesota’s front office on a five-year, $40 million deal, Connelly made the franchise-shifting trade for Rudy Gobert....27212Tue, 04 Apr 2023 10:30:22 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/minnesotas-link-to-los-angeles-sets-up-a-future-of-regret-r27211/The playoff chase in the Western Conference is as exciting as it has been in a long time. Regardless of whether or not you think the play-in tournament is a good and fair idea, the close standings between seeds 4 to 12 have made each and every game watchable. The Minnesota Timberwolves’ recent 4-g...27211Sat, 01 Apr 2023 12:30:11 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/simmons-is-buying-back-into-the-wolves-r27210/Bill Simmons may have called the Rudy Gobert trade the worst in 30 years and been desperately wrong about Jaden McDaniels. But he says he’s watching the Minnesota Timberwolves more now that D’Angelo Russell is gone, and he seems to buying in on them. On his latest podcast, he and Rob Mahoney were...27210Sat, 01 Apr 2023 06:00:04 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/the-timberwolves-have-the-best-7-man-rotation-in-the-nba-r27209/After eight months of national hand-wringing over the Rudy Gobert trade, the Minnesota Timberwolves are finally seeing positive results from their big experiment. The Wolves had to endure a sub-par start to the season, 52 games without Karl-Anthony Towns, the D’Angelo Russell trade, and plenty of...27209Fri, 31 Mar 2023 10:30:28 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/the-fully-healthy-wolves-still-have-a-lot-of-room-for-adjustment-r27208/The Minnesota Timberwolves’ form in the last month has been impressive when you consider the vital players that have been in and out of the lineup. The past month has been rocky. They had a three-game win streak, won one of their next six, and finally finished it off by winning four straight games...27208Thu, 30 Mar 2023 10:30:46 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/what-has-jaden-mcdaniels-added-to-his-offensive-bag-r27207/On Monday night, the Minnesota Timberwolves won a huge game over the third-seeded Sacramento Kings on the second night of a back to back, lifting themselves temporarily out of the play-in tournament and into the sixth seed at 39-37. That only lasted until the Golden State Warriors won on Tuesday n...27207Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:00:39 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/where-would-the-wolves-be-without-mike-conley-r27206/When the trade was initially announced back on Feb. 8 that the Minnesota Timberwolves were shipping D’Angelo Russell to the Los Angeles Lakers and receiving the 36-year-old Mike Conley Jr., I entered a funk – asking myself over and over again, did that just happen? Like many people, I wasn’t sure...27206Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:30:56 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/slomo-still-plays-a-vital-role-for-the-full-strength-wolves-r27205/Karl-Anthony Towns is finally back after a nearly four-month absence following his calf injury in late November. And now that Anthony Edwards has returned from an injury scare, this Wolves team finally appears to be at full strength just in the nick of time with the playoffs around the corner. The...27205Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:12:18 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/whats-naz-reids-role-going-forward-r27203/The Minnesota Timberwolves signed Naz Reid as an undrafted free agent in 2019, and he’s been stuck in an understudy role from the get-go. During his rookie campaign, Reid only played in 30 games for Minnesota while spending 16 games with the Iowa Wolves in the G-League. Reid showed flashes on the...27203Sun, 26 Mar 2023 06:30:53 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/how-does-naw-fit-in-on-a-fully-healthy-wolves-squad-r27202/Nickeil Alexander-Walker arrived in the Twin Cities as an add-on to the Mike Conley trade. However, the Minnesota Timberwolves have put him in a scoring role after trading D’Angelo Russell to the Los Angeles Lakers. Alexander-Walker has been traded four times in his four years in the league. The d...27202Sat, 25 Mar 2023 06:30:09 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/minnesotas-2020-draft-class-could-go-down-in-history-r27201/This may come as a bit of a shock, but there are a lot of things that the Minnesota Timberwolves have done wrong in the 33 years since basketball returned to the Twin Cities. I probably don’t need to rehash all of the foolish stuff this organization has done over the years, but a lot of the pain a...27201Fri, 24 Mar 2023 10:30:19 +0000