The Minnesota Timberwolves’ season from hell continued on Friday night as they lost to the Chicago Bulls in double extra time and may have lost Anthony Edwards for the rest of the regular season to an ankle injury. There is no official update from the group yet. Edwards returned to the bench in a walking shoe late in the game and Briefly told reporters that he will be fine.
I can appreciate Ant’s attitude and tenacity. He played 71 out of 71 games while other stars barely bothered to play 7 games in a row. Have There are only three weeks left on the NBA’s regular season schedule, and the T-Wolves are a knockout and a can’t-miss play-in.
But fear not, Minnesota, support should come at any time. (Hey, Karl, that’s your cue.) Karl-Anthony Towns is coming back from a calf injury that has lasted months. Update from two days ago that KAT will be back in “coming weeks.” Whatever it means, better means he’ll be back on the floor soon.
Good
After all, it’s still not that bad because the bottom of the West is the abyss. Minnesota must knock out the Jazz, Pelicans and Blazers to claim the 12th seed. Two of those organizations are in free fall, and Danny Ainge is doing everything in his power to keep the third team from making it to the lottery. .
Mike Conley and Rudy Gobert are more than capable of playing .500 basketball in a short amount of time, and hopefully, it’s long enough to close the gap until Towns returns. Oh and when that happens, any problems Gobert and Towns have shared together will magically disappear.
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Bad people
Minnesota without Edwards is the 2021 Utah Jazz but older and without Donovan Mitchell, and that is a sad basketball situation as you will see. The main office gave Gobert a million draft picks, and the only argument that it was a smart move is that he was the last standing rock.
D’Angelo Russell is a Laker, KAT’s natural state is recovering from an injury, and the brightest of all collapsed in court Friday night and shouting “TIME OUT!” like he was trying to stop a fight after being belted too hard by his brother.
The front office tried to reframe the story once and it didn’t work out, so if this season comes to an abrupt end, the next steps could be more drastic.
Ugly
The only way for the Wolves to avoid the outcry of pundits wondering who’s disgruntled and fans making fake KAT deals is if they make it to the knockout stages and win one round. fight. It is possible, but Edwards will have to return for the knockout round, and Towns will strike ballistics as soon as possible for as long as possible.
Whenever we wonder which franchise is the gold standard for mismanagement, Minnesota will deliver a season like this, or the year after they last made it to the knockouts when Jimmy Butler used a machete attack to leave Minneapolis. Then it got people asking, “Aren’t you the team that took two unsecured points by the name of Steph Curry against Steph Curry?” And things continued to spiral from there.
So good luck, T-Wolves fans. And just know, it’s not your fault.
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