Breakin' The Plane
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NAW ended up being a pretty nice "throw-in" in the Conley trade.
Going for 4 in a row tonight.
Boston and Dallas are currently on 6 game win streaks.
Not too many 30 point leads in the 1st qtr.
The last line is hilarious. And needed to be said.* You were almost all wrong about the Rudy Gobert trade, and you were wrong because you thought that the modern NBA has to be all about guard and wing play.
The pendulum is always swinging when it comes to sports trends. As soon as small lineups became a trend, someone was eventually going to try to capitalize on that trend by building a dominant front line. The Wolves, with Gobert, Karl-Anthony Towns and Naz Reid, have a dominant front line.
Admit this, too: You assumed the Gobert trade was a joke because the Timberwolves made it, even though the individual who closed the deal, Tim Connelly, assembled the team that won a title in Denver.
* Your Karl-Anthony Towns slander was overdone, in a classic case of blaming an individual for a franchise's failings.
Towns has been an outstanding player his entire career. This year, he's an All-Star who has cut down on his arguing with refs and has received only one technical foul. He's the second-best player on the team leading the West, and has been uniformly unselfish in welcoming another prominent center to the team, and supporting Anthony Edwards as he becomes the face of the franchise..
The Clippers have the NBA's best record since Dec. 1, and the Wolves just went to LA and toyed with them..
* The website Vegas Insider lists Edwards as the 13th-most likely player to win the NBA's Most Valuable Player Award this season. The players listed ahead of Edwards: Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Doncic, Jayson Tatum, Jalen Brunson, Kawhi Leonard, Donovan Mitchell, Kevin Durant, Domantas Sabonis and Steph Curry.
Jokic and Embiid may be the best players in the league, but the Nuggets are easing their way through the season, and the MVP is a regular-season award, not a legacy award. Embiid is injured. Tatum is the best player on the NBA's best team.
Everyone else is either not as good as Edwards, or isn't driving his team's success the way Edwards is.
I don't think Edwards is the league MVP at this moment, but if he continues to excel, play virtually every game and lead the Wolves to a No. 1 seed, he should be much higher than 13th on anyone's list. Maybe even in the top three. He's top 20 in points (26.3 per game), shots made (473), free throws made (285) and steals (63). The national media should wake up..
The Wolves are an excellent team, and they don't need rumors about trying to acquire LeBron James to be relevant. Someone might want to mention them this weekend, right after that exclusive insider report on what LeBron had for breakfast.
Dear NBA, meet the Minnesota Timberwolves. They're a lot different than what you remember.
It's NBA All-Star Weekend — and the national media will need notes on this remade franchise, best in the West and the best story in pro basketball.www.startribune.com
FWIW -* You were almost all wrong about the Rudy Gobert trade, and you were wrong because you thought that the modern NBA has to be all about guard and wing play.
The pendulum is always swinging when it comes to sports trends. As soon as small lineups became a trend, someone was eventually going to try to capitalize on that trend by building a dominant front line. The Wolves, with Gobert, Karl-Anthony Towns and Naz Reid, have a dominant front line.
Admit this, too: You assumed the Gobert trade was a joke because the Timberwolves made it, even though the individual who closed the deal, Tim Connelly, assembled the team that won a title in Denver.
* Your Karl-Anthony Towns slander was overdone, in a classic case of blaming an individual for a franchise's failings.
Towns has been an outstanding player his entire career. This year, he's an All-Star who has cut down on his arguing with refs and has received only one technical foul. He's the second-best player on the team leading the West, and has been uniformly unselfish in welcoming another prominent center to the team, and supporting Anthony Edwards as he becomes the face of the franchise..
The Clippers have the NBA's best record since Dec. 1, and the Wolves just went to LA and toyed with them..
* The website Vegas Insider lists Edwards as the 13th-most likely player to win the NBA's Most Valuable Player Award this season. The players listed ahead of Edwards: Nikola Jokic, Joel Embiid, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Doncic, Jayson Tatum, Jalen Brunson, Kawhi Leonard, Donovan Mitchell, Kevin Durant, Domantas Sabonis and Steph Curry.
Jokic and Embiid may be the best players in the league, but the Nuggets are easing their way through the season, and the MVP is a regular-season award, not a legacy award. Embiid is injured. Tatum is the best player on the NBA's best team.
Everyone else is either not as good as Edwards, or isn't driving his team's success the way Edwards is.
I don't think Edwards is the league MVP at this moment, but if he continues to excel, play virtually every game and lead the Wolves to a No. 1 seed, he should be much higher than 13th on anyone's list. Maybe even in the top three. He's top 20 in points (26.3 per game), shots made (473), free throws made (285) and steals (63). The national media should wake up..
The Wolves are an excellent team, and they don't need rumors about trying to acquire LeBron James to be relevant. Someone might want to mention them this weekend, right after that exclusive insider report on what LeBron had for breakfast.
Dear NBA, meet the Minnesota Timberwolves. They're a lot different than what you remember.
It's NBA All-Star Weekend — and the national media will need notes on this remade franchise, best in the West and the best story in pro basketball.www.startribune.com
I watched and was saving up his energy for today. His left handed effort was horrible, including one off the side of the backboard.Too funny. Didn’t watch it, just viewed clips. Edwards launching those left handed shots in the skills challenge. Is he going to also shoot left handed during the game itself? Said he was.
Too funny. Didn’t watch it, just viewed clips. Edwards launching those left handed shots in the skills challenge. Is he going to also shoot left handed during the game itself? Said he was.
O watched and was saving up his energy for today. His left handed effort was horrible, including one off the side of the backboard.
It’s one thing to goof on yourself, it looks classless when others are involved; it’s all part of the maturation process.Ant did look awful. One of Edwards' partners, Victor Wembanyama, was laughing watching Edwards. The third partner was not.
Maybe he was just saving his energy for tonight. Though sure seems like Anthony wants the league and the public, to view him as a great player and a real badass and maybe a villain too.
This "us against the world" stuff can get complicated.
Awesome deal for both parties. I thought around $15 a year was going to be the deal.This seems like a team-friendly deal. Glad they took care of this early:
Howl Wolves!!