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Ricky Rubio & Kevin Love Hoping to Stay Healthy This Time
The Minnesota Timberwolves have been expecting to make the playoffs for the last couple of years, but it seems that injuries seem to keep getting in the way. Ricky Rubio and Kevin Love are starting a third season side by side, which might be the last if once again something goes wrong on the way to the postseason.
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Longest Playoff Droughts in the NBA
In the NBA, one great draft pick is enough plenty of times to change the fate of the franchise, which is why long playoff droughts aren’t that common. But managements that don’t change make repeated mistakes, which means there are four teams in the league: The Minnesota Timberwolves, the Sacramento Kings, the Toronto Raptors and the Washington Wizards, who haven’t been to the playoffs in five years.
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NBA Rumors – Minnesota Timberwolves Will Sign Nikola Pekovic By Training Camp
The biggest contract yet to be signed in this NBA offseason is between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Nikola Pekovic, who remains an unsigned restricted free agent, although it seems the team is confident things will be resolved for the better very soon.
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Minnesota Timberwolves – Shabazz Muhammad Might End Up in the D-League
Before even starting his NBA career, Shabazz Muhammad is being put on a very short leash by the Minnesota Timberwolves, using threats of being demoted to the D-League through the media if his behavior problems, which might be a bit blown out of proportions by the media, the team and the NBA persist.
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NBA Rumors – Minnesota Timberwolves Can’t Get Nikola Pekovic Signed
The addition of Kevin Martin to Ricky Rubio and Kevin Love has the Minnesota Timberwolves thinking about the playoffs once again, but that isn’t going to happen if Nikola Pekovic doesn’t play at the level that he did last year, or feel disgruntled about the contract he isn’t signing.
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NBA Rumors – Miami Heat, Cleveland Cavaliers, Minnesota Timberwolves & New Orleans Pelicans Might be Interested in Signing Mike James
It doesn’t seem like Mike James is getting tired of fighting for his place in the NBA year after year, with another offseason filled with doubts, and hopes that the slight interest from teams like the Miami Heat, Cleveland Cavaliers, Minnesota Timberwolves and New Orleans Pelicans is going to turn into much more down the line.
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Minnesota Timberwolves – Kevin Martin Will Thrive Next to Kevin Love & Ricky Rubio
After playing with two superstars on his previous team, Kevin Martin wasn’t looking to become a number one option for the Minnesota Timberwolves, making him quite happy to be playing alongside Kevin Love and Ricky Rubio, even though they are a very different kind of “stars” compared to the previous season.
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Minnesota Timberwolves – Ricky Rubio & Kevin Love Healthy Can Finally Get Them Into the Playoffs
For a third straight season, the Minnesota Timberwolves feel they have what it takes to finally make it into the postseason, which will be a first fo rthe franchise without Kevin Garnett on the team. After two seasons in which the injuries of both Kevin Love and Ricky Rubio got in the way, there’s a feeling of it’s now or never for the team.
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NBA Rumors – Brooklyn Nets Signing Andrei Kirilenko Suspicious to Some
The facts: Andrei Kirilenko opted out of next season’s deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves, worth $10.2 million, and signed with the Brooklyn Nets on a two-year deal worth $3.2 million a season. Suspicious? Some teams around the NBA think so.
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NBA Rumors – Dallas Mavericks, Memphis Grizzlies or Utah Jazz Interested in Signing Andrei Kirilenko
It seems that the chances of Andrei Kirilenko playing for the San Antonio Spurs next season are fading away, so this makes the Utah Jazz, Memphis Grizzlies and Dallas Mavericks as the next in line to pick up the Russian forward, leaving the Minnesota Timberwolves after last season.