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The Minnesota Timberwolves have fired president and head coach Tom Thibodeau. Barely an hour after the Minnesota Timberwolves had blown out a shorthanded Los Angeles Lakers team at home Thibodeau was fired. After the win, Thibs appeared in a good mood. He sat at the podium, with two wins in a row and with the [...]

According to head coach Tom Thibodeau, Minnesota Timberwolves’ Robert Covington will be out for an extended period of time with a bone bruise. Thibodeau doesn’t believe surgery will be required, but it’s apparent that his ankle injury is more severe than originally thought and a recovery timeline has yet to be determined. This is unfortunate [...]

Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor says that Jimmy Butler had an agenda before he was traded, which created a “negative environment” around the team. Even though the players publicly said they wouldn’t let his situation affect their play, the team struggled on the court. Taylor told the Star Tribune that he had an agreement with [...]

Could the Jimmy Butler saga ultimately end up costing Minnesota Timberwolves coach-president Tom Thibodeau, along with general manager Scott Layden, his job? It seems so. It might even be a given. From ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski: As Philadelphia ramps up its rise into contention, Minnesota is sorting through what’s left in Butler’s wake. Taylor considered firing [...]

The Minnesota Timberwolves’ season continues to get weird. Derrick Rose dropping a career-high 50 points on Wednesday was strange enough. Of course, though, no day would be complete without another wrinkle in the Jimmy Butler saga. The Athletic’s Shams Charania and Jon Krawczynski initially reported that Butler would miss the Wolves’ game against the Jazz [...]

Prince is one of the most creative, gifted and revered artists of the last 50 years. He sold more than 100 million records, won eight Grammy awards and even an Academy Award for his 1984 film Purple Rain. He passed away in 2016 at the age of 57. A native son of Minneapolis, Minnesota, the [...]

The Minnesota Timberwolves remain committed to trading disgruntled superstar Jimmy Butler, which means they’re at great risk of missing the playoffs altogether. They’re a fringe candidate with him, so they’d be lucky to make it without him. And given how publicly their drama has unfolded, it’s easy to wonder whether the Timberwolves will even give [...]

Both Karl-Anthony Towns and Andrew Wiggins have, to some extent, seen their names get dragged through the mud as the Minnesota Timberwolves try to sort out their Jimmy Butler dilemma. Zach LaVine, their former teammate, wants everyone to know what they’re hearing about the duo isn’t true. Per the Chicago Tribune‘s K.C. Johnson: “KAT and Wigs [...]

For anyone who predicted the Minnesota Timberwolves would trade Jimmy Butler before the start of the regular season, we have some news: They, um, aren’t going to trade him before the start of the regular season. In advance of the Timberwolves’ first game of the year on Wednesday, owner Glen Taylor made a 90-minute trek [...]

As the Jimmy Butler saga continues, plenty of, if not most, potential suitors remain skeptical about the Timberwolves’ stated desire to actually move him. Consider this note from The Athletic’s Jon Krawczynski: There has been widespread skepticism throughout the league that Tom Thibodeau truly does want to pull the trigger and send out one of [...]