Timberwolves

The Derrick Rose experiment in the Big Apple hasn’t been a huge success and has included a few bizarre speed bumps, most notably Rose leaving the team on a game day and going AWOL to be with family. Despite all of this, there appears to be a trade market for the 28-year-old former MVP (seems [...]

Coming into the 2016-17 season the Minnesota Timberwolves were the darlings of the NBA, an incredibly young team flush with talent and potential that many prognosticators thought were ready to take the leap to being a playoff team. A 6-18 start quelled those notions pretty quickly as even with defensive guru Tom Thibodeau in tow [...]

The Minnesota Timberwolves announced Wednesday morning that reserve forward Adreian Payne is out indefinitely with a blood condition. [tweet https://twitter.com/basketballtalk/status/829227551377731589] Payne is reportedly suffering from thrombocytopenia or low palet count, according to WebMD it can lead to excessive bleeding and slow blood clotting after an injury. It seems as though the issue isn’t serious and [...]

Seeing Lance Stephenson play for Tom Thibodeau isn’t something you know you want more than anything ever until it actually happens. And, well, it’s about to happen. From The Vertical’s Shams Charania: Free-agent guard Lance Stephenson plans to sign a 10-day contract with the Minnesota Timberwolves, league sources told The Vertical. Stephenson is expected to [...]

How serious are the Minnesota Timberwolves about erasing the 2.5-game gap standing between them and the Western Conference’s final playoff spot? Serious enough to dangle 24-year-old Shabazz Muhammad in a trade for 31-year-old P.J. Tucker, according to Basketball Insiders’ Michael Scotto: P.J. Tucker has been in the headlines recently, with his name surfacing in trade [...]

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Minnesota Timberwolves Head Coach let it be known on ESPN’s True Hoop podcast that his team is in search of some depth in the front court. Cole Aldrich and Jordan Hill should be very offended at the moment. The T’Wolves rely heavily on Karl Anthony Towns and Gorgui Dieng in the front court. Nemanja Bejilica, [...]

Seventeen games into last season, a clear rebuilding year, the Minnesota Timberwolves were 8-9. Seventeen games into this season, one that came with not-so-subtle playoff hopes, the Timberwolves are 5-12, their optimism fading fast. Frustration reached fever pitch within the Minnesota locker room following Monday night’s loss to the Utah Jazz. Everyone from head coach [...]

With the Minnesota Timberwolves sitting at 4-10, touting the Western Conference’s second-worst record, there are those around the NBA who expect head coach and president Tom Thibodeau to do something about it. Here’s Ric Bucher of Bleacher Report (via ProBasketballTalk’s Dan Feldman): Tom Thibodeau is not exactly a paragon of patience, which is why league [...]

Lots of people thought Kris Dunn would be the Minnesota Timberwolves’ starting point guard by season’s end. Few, if any, thought he’d taking up the mantle two games into the season. But here we are. The Minnesota Timberwolves announced that Ricky Rubio, their current starting point guard, will we out indefinitely as he rehabilitates a [...]