CSKA Moscow, who blew a 19-point second half lead and lost the Euroleague final to Olympiakos this weekend, has at least one well-known player expected to sign in North America this summer, in Andrei Kirilenko (6’9”-F-81). But Kirilenko isn’t the only player CSKA is anticipating losing to the NBA. According to Jonathan Givony (via Twitter), Alexey Shved is drawing interest [...]
A moment of silence, please, in memory of Ricky Rubio’s 2011-12 season. After Rubio suffered an injury in Friday night’s game against the Los Angeles Lakers, Minnesota Timberwolves fans held their collective breath, and the Human YouTube Highlight Clip got another video added to his virtual collection – one that La Pistola certainly never wanted to see. Yesterday, the team [...]
A couple of weeks ago, hot on the scent of Rubiomania, I attended the Nets-Timberwolves game with a friend of mine. My friend’s a classically trained violinist (and a brilliant one at that), but not much of a basketball fan. He knows the general rules and tricks, but really we just went to the game to hang out, have a [...]
An hour or ago I found myself wanting to make some bold claims about how much Dwane Casey has helped the Raptors’ defense. I had intended to say that no team’s defense had improved as much as the Raptors’ had thanks to their new coach. But what I found instead was that in fact one team had: The Timberwolves also [...]
Ricky Rubio debuted for the Minnesota Timberwolves in the team’s opener against the Oklahoma City Thunder last night. Though the Thunder won the game 104-100, Rubio impressed with six points, six assists, five rebounds (!), zero turnovers and his first NBA YouTube-worthy highlights. NBA dish no. 1 for the Spanish wunderkind will go down as one lightning-quick bounce pass threading [...]
The Minnesota Timberwolves signed veteran swingman Bonzi Wells and rookie guard Malcolm Lee on Thursday. Wells last played in the NBA during the 2007-08 season, when he split the year with Houston and New Orleans. He spent 2008-09 season playing in China and the 2009-10 campaign in the Puerto Rican League. A 10-year NBA veteran, Wells has played in 591 [...]
A source close to free agent J.J. Barea tells TNT’s David Aldridge that the 27-year-old is finalizing details on a four-year deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves, which would further add to that team’s seemingly inexhaustable supply of guards. Barea, who starred in the postseason last spring during the Dallas Mavericks’ run to the NBA title, took more in Minnesota than in New [...]
Minnesota Timberwolves hoped to see him mature and emerge as a go-to player for a franchise that desperately needs one. Michael Beasley’s first full offseason here isn’t off to a good start. He was ticketed for possessing marijuana and speeding in the Minneapolis suburb of Minnetonka last week, police said on Wednesday. The officer stopped Beasley around 3 a.m. on [...]
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — When held his introductory news conference this week, he jokingly promised that he would keep his credit card in his pocket on his first trip to the Mall of America so his family didn’t buy everything in sight. That didn’t keep him from busting it out for a good cause Saturday. As a hectic first week [...]
The Minnesota Timberwolves’ complications in the NBA draft never seem to end. After the Timberwolves agreed to send guard Jonny Flynn in a package to the Houston Rockets for Brad Miller and the 23rd pick on Thursday, the trade hit a snag on Friday when the Rockets’ team doctors raised issues with Flynn’s hip injury. To keep the deal from [...]
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