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  • Minnesota Timberwolves – No Hope Without Kevin Love

    Minnesota Timberwolves – No Hope Without Kevin Love

    The Minnesota Timberwolves are built around Kevin Love and Ricky Rubio, aiming for a first playoff appearance since 2004. After missing out on the postseason last year due to Rubio’s torn ACL, Kevin Love’s broken hand means both of them won’t be available for the early part of the NBA Season.

  • 13 NBA Point Guards Better Than Jeremy Lin

    The Houston Rockets, via their poison-pill contract, have ensured that Lin will be one of the highest paid players in the NBA in 2014-2015, earning just under $15 million that season. While financially Lin’s presence will probably pay-off the contract, he’s not that good.

  • The Long List of Season Ending Injuries in the 2011-2012 NBA Season

    With Chris Bosh out indefinitely, the Miami Heat’s chances of winning the NBA title or even making it out of the East or their current series have taken a serious blow. But Bosh is just the last name in a long list of players who went down to season ending injuries in the shortened and condensed year, which hasn’t been friendly to players’ health.

  • Best NBA Comics Ever?

    NBA players portrayed as kids – some fun, some annoying, some being bullies, as J.O Applegate imagines and demonstrates how some of the league’s biggest stars would look like, playing together during recess.

  • Ricky Rubio Ends Season and Playoff Hopes for Timberwolves

    Ricky Rubio was in the middle of a fantastic year. The first season in the NBA for a young European player is never easy, but Rubio, playing professional basketball since he was 14, made the (2 years late) shift rather succesfuly, part of a basketball spring the Minnesota Timberwolves are going through. After 41 games, a torn ACL ended more than just Rubio’s rookie NBA season.

  • Top Ten NBA Rookies in 2011-2012 – Mid Season Edition

    Kyrie Irving is the only thing stopping us from three consecutive rookie of the years from the same draft class, but despite Ricky Rubio’s impressive numbers, it looks like the number one draft pick, leading all rookie in scoring, will be the one receiving the ROY award at the end of the 2011-2012 season.

  • Kevin Love Breaking Out to Superstar Level

    Kevin Love numbers aside, are the Minnesota Timberwolves for real? Depends on what you regard being for real. Championship material? Nope, not really close. But a playoff contender? After nearly a month of NBA action, the Wolves are 7-8, far from their usual position of already thinking about next year. Beating the Red hot Clippers (101-98) in dramatic fashion was another fine example.

  • Rubio and the Timberwolves are the Real Deal

    Ricky Rubio continued to impress with his passing skills and overall ability to run the team’s offense, while Kevin Love did everything, from hitting threes to crashing the boards, as usual. The Minnesota Timberwolves ran the slow, old and slightly pathetic Dallas Mavericks off the floor with a 99-82 win.

  • Dwyane Wade Clutch = Miami Heat Perfect

    Dwyane Wade was the lowest scorer of the big three in yet another Miami Heat away win written on his name, hitting the game winning shot for the second time this week, leaving the improving Minnesota Timberwolves win-less in another brilliant LeBron James night.

  • Rubio and Williams Additions Make Timberwolves Fun to Watch

    Ricky Rubio finally playing his first game in Minnesota Timberwolves uniform, Derrick Williams looking like a likely rookie of the year candidate and Kevin Love make the Timberwolves relevant to NBA fans again after quite a long time out of the spotlight.