https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/page/68/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/schreier-the-timberwolves-have-jimmy-butler-now-they-need-to-become-a-free-agent-destination-r25299/We’re positioned well to explore the market. — Tom Thibodeau on draft night after the Jimmy Butler trade The Tom Thibodeau and the Minnesota Timberwolves have been widely praised for the trade that brought Jimmy Butler to the Twin Cities. Rob Mahoney of Sports Illustrated says the Wolves fleeced...25299Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:39:15 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/post-butler-trade-the-free-agency-world-r25297/Two things happened to the free agent market when Jimmy Butler was traded to the Wolves: First, a shift in the market. Second, a change in the landscape. The Market  The cap space left for the Wolves is in the vicinity of $18-22 million, along with the money they get if they waive Jordan Hill an...25297Mon, 26 Jun 2017 09:40:06 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/first-round-nba-draft-winners-and-losers-r25294/Plenty of action went down from the opening pick to the final name, as there were plenty of trades to go along with the selections. Here are Zone Coverage’s winners and losers after Round One. Biggest Winners Timberwolves – Not only did they pry Jimmy Butler from the Chicago Bulls, but they also...25294Fri, 23 Jun 2017 16:20:04 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/nba-draft-profile-justin-jackson-r25289/It’s hard to imagine how Justin Jackson is getting lost in the shuffle here as draft season rages on. The Tar Heels junior improved his points per game (18.3) and rebounding averages (4.7) while becoming a more prolific 3-point shooter — hitting at 37 percent from beyond the arc. While the buzz a...25289Mon, 19 Jun 2017 11:22:42 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/nba-draft-profile-jayson-tatum-r25288/While Jayson Tatum has been projected as a top-five pick, in a draft as loaded as the one going down on June 22, he is liable to be one of a few top level athletes that slips into the middle of the opening round. The Minnesota Timberwolves would be a logical team to scoop up the 6-foot-8, 205 poun...25288Tue, 20 Jun 2017 09:18:23 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/your-2017-nba-mock-draft-r25287/1. PHILADELPHIA 76ers Markelle Fultz, PG, Washington Unless the 76ers players and social media team is just trolling everybody, this pick will be Fultz. Adding a point guard of this caliber to a core of Joel Embiid, Dario Saric and Ben Simmons makes Philadelphia one of the most interesting youn...25287Thu, 22 Jun 2017 12:28:06 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/nba-draft-profile-malik-monk-r25286/If the Minnesota Timberwolves choose to select a guard in next week’s draft, that guard very well might be Kentucky’s Malik Monk. The freshman is entering the league after posting 19.8 points per game over his 38-game college career. He is regarded as one of the premier shooters in the draft’s pla...25286Mon, 19 Jun 2017 10:23:11 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/nba-draft-profile-lauri-markkanen-r25285/After Florida State’s Jonathan Isaac, one of the next most talked about prospects in Minnesota is Arizona’s Lauri Markkanen. Markkanen, a freshman forward, averaged 15.6 points on 49.2 percent shooting with nine games of 20 or more points. His offensive skillset alone makes him worthy of a lottery...25285Fri, 16 Jun 2017 09:43:55 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/nba-draft-profile-jonathan-isaac-r25284/With the 2017 NBA Draft just over two weeks away, it’s time to look at prospects who could find themselves wearing a Minnesota Timberwolves uniform in the 2017-18 season. The first prospect nearly everyone in Minnesota seems to gravitate toward is Florida State forward Jonathan Isaac. The 6-foot-...25284Tue, 06 Jun 2017 15:23:38 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/schreier-the-minnesota-timberwolves-had-a-disappointing-season-but-have-a-foundation-to-build-on-r25276/When you look at it, like in every season, there is going to be some good things, some things that you didn’t do as well as you would have liked. And then you want to formulate your plan going forward. — Timberwolves coach and president Tom Thibodeau at his season-end press conference The Minnes...25276Wed, 19 Apr 2017 08:55:20 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/trying-to-justify-tom-thibodeaus-minute-distribution-r25268/It has been a hot topic during most of Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Tom Thibodeau’s career, and it is resurfacing as his first season with the Wolves winds down. The issue, of course, is his minute distribution and his tendency to play his best players extremely heavy minutes. It was always...25268Wed, 12 Apr 2017 07:00:22 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/tom-thibodeau-on-timberwolves-missing-the-playoffs-%E2%80%9Cyou-just-deal-with-reality%E2%80%9D-r25266/You have to run through the finish line. — Wolves president and coach Tom Thibodeau at Sunday’s practice Saturday’s loss to the Sacramento Kings made it official: the Minnesota Timberwolves will not make the playoffs for the 13th straight season. Vegas had set the Wolves’ win total over-under at...25266Mon, 03 Apr 2017 08:41:44 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/just-how-good-has-ricky-rubio-been-lately-r25263/Since the All-Star break, and probably more notably not being traded to the New York Knicks for Derrick Rose, Minnesota Timberwolves point guard Ricky Rubio has been on a completely different level. A level that makes the idea of trading him for Rose, or even in general, completely laughable. Whi...25263Wed, 05 Apr 2017 08:11:19 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/the-minnesota-timberwolves-have-had-tangible-but-sporadic-improvement-this-year-r25262/All three games on the road were winnable. Five minutes to go in each one of those games, we had a chance to win them. — Tom Thibodeau after a loss to San Antonio, referring to road games against Boston, Miami and New Orleans The Minnesota Timberwolves went 29-53 last year, so as of this writin...25262Tue, 28 Mar 2017 08:14:32 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/what-to-watch-for-in-the-timberwolves-final-two-weeks-r25258/As the 2016-17 NBA season winds down, 16 teams will turn the page to the postseason, while a handful of others have been focused on the offseason for the better part of the last month. Meanwhile, the Minnesota Timberwolves have plenty to learn over their last nine games. These last two weeks of th...25258Wed, 29 Mar 2017 07:00:05 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/no-the-minnesota-timberwolves-should-not-tank-r25254/After watching the Minnesota Timberwolves go winless during a three-game road trip to all but end its hopes of playing in the playoffs, many followers are now suggesting the team “tank” in order to improve its odds of adding yet another talented, young player to its core. The Wolves entered Bosto...25254Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:26:52 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/the-minnesota-timberwolves-have-turned-a-corner-r25251/It’s a good measuring stick for us. — Tom Thibodeau after Minnesota beat Golden State 103-102 It still seems odd that Minnesota Timberwolves coach and president of basketball operations Tom Thibodeau was a part of a game that ended with a score of 142-130. Known as a defensive specialist who wo...25251Tue, 14 Mar 2017 08:36:59 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/karl-anthony-towns-how-the-monster-on-the-offensive-glass-is-improving-r25241/Minnesota Timberwolves big man Karl-Anthony Towns took the league by storm last season as he coasted to win the NBA Rookie of the Year award. After watching him average 18.5 points and 10.3 rebounds per game before his 21st birthday, it was hard to even imagine what kind of growth would come as he...25241Wed, 08 Mar 2017 08:09:12 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/can-playing-two-point-guards-work-for-the-wolves-r25240/After Zach LaVine went down with a season-ending torn ACL injury last month, the Minnesota Timberwolves found themselves trying to replace 37.2 minutes and 15.1 shot attempts per game. Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins have both stepped up in the scoring department, as each has scored at leas...25240Wed, 01 Mar 2017 12:31:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/the-minnesota-timberwolves-need-to-find-a-way-for-kevin-garnett-tom-thibodeau-to-coexist-r25235/It’s just sad to see that everybody in that organization didn’t see the same vision. — Kevin Garnett to Kevin McHale in an NBA TV interview It’s hard to forget the glow that radiated from Kevin Garnett the day he came back to Minnesota. Former coach and president of basketball operations Flip Sa...25235Wed, 22 Feb 2017 09:36:30 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/tom-thibodeau-on-timberwolves-defense-%E2%80%9Cif-you-cant-play-with-intensity-you-wont-win%E2%80%9D-r25230/When the Minnesota Timberwolves hired Tom Thibodeau as head coach and president of basketball operations last summer, it was obvious the organization wanted to be serious about improving its defense. It was a defense that allowed 106 points per game (ranked 23rd in the NBA) and had a defensive rat...25230Wed, 15 Feb 2017 10:36:51 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/minnesota-timberwolves-should-continue-to-make-playoff-push-without-zach-lavine-r25223/You don’t replace a player like Zach individually; we do it collectively. It’s our group. We feel that we have more than enough to win with. — Thibodeau hours after learning of LaVine’s season-ending injury It’s easy to make an argument for why the Minnesota Timberwolves should tank it after the...25223Mon, 06 Feb 2017 08:16:10 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/the-two-weeks-before-the-all-star-break-are-critical-for-minnesota-timberwolves-r25218/Coming into the 2016-17 season, it would have been easy to project the Minnesota Timberwolves would start the season on a good note due to what appeared to be an “easy” schedule early on. From then, the hope would be the team would grow and, maybe, hold its own against a tougher part of the schedu...25218Wed, 01 Feb 2017 08:23:18 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/halfway-through-the-season-minnesota-timberwolves-are-a-sisyphean-task-away-from-the-playoffs-r25205/For a crime against the gods…he was condemned to an eternity at hard labor. And frustrating labor at that. For his assignment was to roll a great boulder to the top of a hill. Only every time Sisyphus, by the greatest of exertion and toil, attained the summit, the darn thing rolled back down again...25205Mon, 16 Jan 2017 12:57:54 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-features/tom-thibodeau-knew-what-he-was-getting-into-with-the-minnesota-timberwolves-r25187/When you come in, you come into a new situation and you evaluate. And I studied before I took the job, so I knew what I was getting into. — Thibodeau after losing to Golden State 116-108 on Sunday night If the Minnesota Timberwolves (6-18) are off to a slower start than Tom Thibodeau expected, h...25187Tue, 13 Dec 2016 08:35:57 +0000