https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/page/22/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/former-timberwolves-teammates-pour-out-support-for-karl-anthony-towns-r26135/To be completely honest, I don’t know what to say. This is awful. The death of Karl-Anthony Towns‘ mother, Jacqueline, due to complications from COVID-19, is just awful. I can’t relate, and you probably can’t either. Even for the unfortunate who have had to permanently say goodbye to a parent, re...26135Mon, 13 Apr 2020 20:46:25 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/%E2%80%98we-have-to-be-prepared-the-timberwolves-2020-offseason-is-the-next-step-r26133/The Minnesota Timberwolves don’t need to play the final 18 games of the season to firmly cement their identity into place. In a season of 19 wins and 45 losses, their preferred style of play became abundantly clear. With Gersson Rosas at the helm and with Ryan Saunders pulling the strings, this te...26133Wed, 08 Apr 2020 01:29:13 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/four-players-the-timberwolves-could-target-in-trades-this-summer-r26130/We now know the blueprint. In Gersson Rosas’ wheeling and dealings at the trade deadline that eventually landed D’Angelo Russell, Malik Beasley and Juancho Hernangomez, Rosas not only illustrated that this new Minnesota Timberwolves front office was going to be an active one, but he also illustra...26130Mon, 06 Apr 2020 07:00:24 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/karl-anthony-towns-pulls-back-the-curtain-r26129/Late on Tuesday evening, Karl-Anthony Towns bravely peeled back the curtain, sharing that his mother, Jacqueline, has been put into a medically-induced coma while she battles symptoms of Coronavirus. Towns also shared that his father, Karl Sr., has been sent home and placed in mandated quarantine...26129Wed, 25 Mar 2020 03:16:41 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/searching-for-karl-anthony-towns-frontcourt-partner-of-the-future-r26128/Looking into what type of player could become Karl-Anthony Towns‘ long-term frontcourt partner can be done two different ways: 1) Through the lens of how we have traditionally come to understand roster construction; 2) Through the lens of how Gersson Rosas has been constructing the Minnesota Timbe...26128Mon, 30 Mar 2020 06:00:47 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/timberwolves-mailbag-whats-next-for-the-timberwolves-r26126/Now over a week into the NBA’s stoppage of play in response to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, we don’t have many more answers to NBA-related questions than we did when the brakes were engaged. What we do have in the pausing of timing is the opportunity to ask questions with a finer point. As th...26126Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:29:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/how-the-nbas-work-stoppage-will-change-the-summer-for-the-timberwolves-r26125/Winning in the NBA is full of games within games. Competing for an NBA championship is a Russian nesting doll of scaling competitions. While at its core, the NBA is about 82 individual basketball games, the surrounding layers of games have a cascading impact on who ultimately finds success. A cri...26125Tue, 17 Mar 2020 01:29:48 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/timberwolves-mailbag-assessing-a-team-being-coached-in-development-mode-r26123/As this Minnesota Timberwolves season winds down, the losses are likely to continue to stack up. Development is clearly being prioritized over maximizing the chance to win each individual game. With Karl-Anthony Towns sidelined, the players the Wolves are giving time to frequently pale in comparis...26123Wed, 11 Mar 2020 14:02:29 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/the-loading-process-dangelo-russells-first-chapter-in-minnesota-r26121/“We wanted that point guard.” Those were the emphatic words of Gersson Rosas as he nodded toward D’Angelo Russell at Russell’s introductory press conference in early February. Many looked at that statement by the Minnesota Timberwolves’ chief decision-maker as a strutting of sorts. A flex after s...26121Tue, 10 Mar 2020 04:14:42 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/timberwolves-mailbag-considering-the-now-and-later-of-these-timberwolves-r26119/These Minnesota Timberwolves do this. They roll up feisty road triumphs, like last week in Miami and Tuesday evening in New Orleans, into lethargic home deflations, like Sunday against Dallas (and perhaps Wednesday night against Chicago). The victories are a reminder that the team isn’t actively t...26119Wed, 04 Mar 2020 03:19:23 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/timberwolves-mailbag-what-are-the-timberwolves-prioritizing-r26116/The Minnesota Timberwolves have clearly hit the third phase of the season. After the “Bahamas wasn’t a joke” hot start that saw the Wolves start 7-4 and then 10-8 in the first quarter of the season, the team clearly became a joke — running off a record of 6-29 into the All-Star break. Post-break,...26116Wed, 26 Feb 2020 13:43:42 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/dangelo-russells-other-best-friend-on-the-timberwolves-kelan-martin-r26114/DENVER — When they were nine years old, D’Angelo Russell and Kelan Martin had their first sleepover at Kelan’s house. On Friday night at Target Center, the two played in an NBA game together — on the same team, no less. And on Sunday evening, Russell was losing his mind on the sidelines while Mart...26114Sun, 23 Feb 2020 23:30:19 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/the-timberwolves-plan-of-attack-with-karl-anthony-towns-sidelined-indefinitely-%E2%80%98finding-what-works-for-dangelo-r26112/When the Minnesota Timberwolves start the second half of the season at home against the Boston Celtics on Friday evening, they will do so with Karl-Anthony Towns sidelined for an unclear amount of time while he recovers from a left wrist injury. Towns sat out the team’s final game before the brea...26112Thu, 20 Feb 2020 14:24:15 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/timberwolves-mailbag-what-can-be-expected-from-the-timberwolves-going-forward-r26111/With only 16 wins (and 37 losses) coming out of the All-Star break, the Minnesota Timberwolves are on pace to finish this season with a record of 25-57. That this team is tracking toward winning 10 fewer games than even the most skeptical person would have guessed while simultaneously hitting its...26111Wed, 19 Feb 2020 12:05:51 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/timberwolves-mailbag-where-is-dangelo-russell-going-to-take-the-timberwolves-r26109/The last week has been nothing short of a whirlwind for the Minnesota Timberwolves. We’ll be chasing our tails to catch up on everything for… well, I hope not forever. But the games don’t stop. Let’s hit on a few of the new pieces on this ever-evolving roster while acknowledging that incumbent pie...26109Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:20:44 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/the-new-look-timberwolves-sure-feel-like-%E2%80%98houston-north-r26107/The early reviews of the D’Angelo Russell and Karl-Anthony Towns pairing are in, and it looks a whole lot like a nascent version of the James Harden and Chris Paul-led Houston Rockets. Which suggests that, after acquiring Russell at the trade deadline, the plan for how Gersson Rosas wants to mold...26107Tue, 11 Feb 2020 02:16:28 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/with-dangelo-russell-glen-taylor-is-letting-gersson-rosas-do-his-thing-r26106/Glen Taylor eats a piece of hamburger-topped pizza after every Minnesota Timberwolves home game. In the bowels of Target Center, there is a miniature kitchen that serves up frozen pizzas and Bud Light after games that the franchise’s owner always hits on his way out. After Wednesday evening’s loss...26106Fri, 07 Feb 2020 02:16:35 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/another-loading-error-timberwolves-pivot-to-malik-beasley-in-robert-covington-trade-r26104/Remember life before Netflix was a thing? If you wanted to watch a movie immediately, well, you were at the mercy of cable television. What does TBS have on? What about TNT? Two different Nicolas Cage movies!? I guess we’re watching “National Treasure” again. That’s what the Minnesota Timberwolve...26104Wed, 05 Feb 2020 03:57:23 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/the-opportunity-cost-of-the-timberwolves-new-system-is-lots-of-losses-r26101/At practice the morning after Ryan Saunders suffered the worst defeat of his coaching career, a four-point overtime home loss to the Sacramento Kings that saw his team blow a 22-point fourth-quarter lead, he was asked what the identity of his team is. “I know what our team wants our identity to b...26101Mon, 03 Feb 2020 07:00:05 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/timberwolves-mailbag-why-should-we-care-about-the-timberwolves-r26100/During a week that will forever feel defined by the loss of Kobe Bryant, the Minnesota Timberwolves suffered a superficial — in the sense that it was just a game — but nonetheless meaningful loss of their own. The timing of an epic, 27-point collapse at home against the Sacramento Kings couldn’t...26100Wed, 29 Jan 2020 07:05:59 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/the-kobe-bryant-experience-through-the-lens-of-timberwolves-fans-r26098/I found the task of writing this — some sort of article about the almost incomprehensible passing of Kobe Bryant — to be very difficult. Hell, I had a really hard time just thinking about it all day — as I’m sure many of you reading this did. It doesn’t make sense. But, for me, my brain did what...26098Mon, 27 Jan 2020 01:09:14 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/%E2%80%98if-you-get-yelled-at-then-you-know-ryan-saunders-attempt-to-snap-andrew-wiggins-and-the-timberwolves-out-of-a-funk-r26096/CHICAGO — It needed to happen. Prior to a 22-point second half on Wednesday night in Chicago, the type of production that drives winning had all but disappeared from Andrew Wiggins’ game in the month of January. The level he was playing at early in the season had become a distant reverie, and Old...26096Thu, 23 Jan 2020 02:49:09 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/timberwolves-mailbag-what-is-and-is-not-working-for-the-timberwolves-and-what-could-change-r26095/In what has now become a six-game losing streak, all we really have with the Minnesota Timberwolves is questions. As more changes to the roster sit imminently on the horizon, there are questions not only about who could join this team but what exactly it is that they would be joining. The Wolves...26095Wed, 22 Jan 2020 06:10:46 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/understanding-the-gersson-rosas-process-the-%E2%80%98why-behind-the-jeff-teague-trade-r26094/From 10,000 feet, trading Jeff Teague three weeks before the trade deadline without a discernably positive asset heading back to the Minnesota Timberwolves seems a bit curious. On the surface, it feels a bit rushed. Theoretically, Teague, or Treveon Graham, who was also part of the package headed...26094Fri, 17 Jan 2020 03:20:44 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/timberwolves-news/timberwolves-mailbag-where-did-andrew-wiggins-go-r26092/After running relatively hot for a week, winning two of four games when Andrew Wiggins was sidelined with an illness, the Minnesota Timberwolves have taken a step back since his return (two wins, three losses). The Wolves defense has regressed back to below-average and the offense hasn’t shown muc...26092Wed, 15 Jan 2020 01:35:42 +0000