Knocking On Britain's Door Won't Be Easy
After last week's game between the Timberwolves and Celtics in London, we can see that the UK market – the hardest to crack in Europe – is not going to be cracked that easily. Solutions are not forthcoming. It’s not enough that the Olympic games are going to be in London. Nor is it enough that a rising NBA superstar such as Luol Deng is British. NBA Commissioner David Stern will be hoping that this game acted as a sort of icebreaker, showing the British public what the NBA is all about first hand and with an NBA Office opening in London soon, maybe basketball, in particular the NBA, will gain more recognition. Sadly though, this game was not the big hit everyone had hoped for.
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How Will Trade Shape Wolves' Future?
While Boston immediately becomes a contender in the Eastern Conference, it appears as if Minnesota will be cellar-dwellers for a while. However, this trade for youth allows for that young talent on the team to grow and develop together.
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Is This Really The End For KG In Minnesota?
With all of the rumors circling around about the Minnesota Timberwolves possibly trading Kevin Garnett, we decided to compile a list of memorable moments in Garnett's professional career, just in case this is the end.
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30 Teams, 30 Days: Minnesota Timberwolves
Wing players will be aplenty with the 7th pick, but the Wolves could use a quality big man.
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Free KG
Winning a championship is a two part deal between the franchise player and the general manager. The franchise player must play his heart every night and be a role model the youngsters can look up to. The general manager must put the right pieces around its franchise player for the team to be competitive. In the case of the Minnesota Timberwolves, one of the Kevins is keeping up their end of the deal.
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Can The Wolves Satisfy Garnett’s Demands?
Kevin Garnett's recent comments can be interpreted two ways – (1)It’s a plea from a superstar feeling the burden of carrying a professional franchise on his back for over a decade. (2)It’s the nice way of saying “If I don’t get some help, then get me the heck out of here.” Personally, I believe it’s a little bit of both.
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Mike James = Mistake?
The Minnesota Timberwolves and free agent guard, Mike James, have agreed to a 4-year contract worth nearly $25 million dollars. When I first heard the news, a number of questions popped into my head. Why Mike James? Don’t the Wolves have enough guards? Didn’t they just draft a stud guard in Randy Foye? This is definitely one of the most perplexing free agent signings by Wolves GM, Kevin McHale.
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A Brave New World
The Wally World era of the Minnesota Timberwolves is officially over. However, this trade is less about the players involved and more about what it says about the Timberwolves commitment to becoming a more defensive minded, athletic team. You could hardly find two players with such a disparity in athletic ability than Szczerbiak and Davis. Banks, Reed, and Jones are like lottery scratch off stocking stuffers while Blount will give the Timberwolves a body to throw in at center.
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Minnesota Timberwolves Five Vibe Games 11-16
Wally Szczerbiak emerged from his season long shooting slump and finally put together a string of impressive scoring outputs. In the five game session, Wally World averaged 21.6 points per game. Not unrelated the Timberwolves went 4 and 1 in that stretch.
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Minnesota Timberwolves Five Vibe Games 6 –10
With a 109-89 victory over the streaking Wizards, the Timberwolves avoided a three game slide. The Wizards weren’t prepared for Michael Olowokandi who scored a then season high of 14 points and grabbed 6 rebounds. Richie Frahm scored 16 points and continued to be the Wolves’ only outside shooting threat, going 4-5 from the three-point line.
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Minnesota Timberwolves Five Vibe Games 1 – 5
With two hometown newspapers, the associated press and scores of game recaps available on NBA.com, ESPN.com etc. RealGM has decided to go a different route concerning, Minnesota Timberwolves game by game coverage. Every five games the Minnesota Timberwolves Five Vibe will be published. The Five Vibe highlights five trends, situations or events from the following five contests.
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The Best Of Times Or The Worst Of Times..
After a one year hiatus, the national media has resumed its campaign to convince Kevin Garnett that he will never win a championship in Minnesota and he would be better served being Kobe’s Scottie Pippen. As much as the folks in L.A. and the league offices would like that to happen, there is only one way it will.
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Hero$
To hear a guy like Latrell Sprewell say he doesn’t make enough money to feed his kids makes us despise him. We the averages Joes have money issues, our heroes do not. Sprewell can feed his kids, he could feed his whole block 3 squares a day if he lived on one. That is not what he meant when he made that statement. His reality, I am a 30 plus, past my prime, perimeter NBA player. I need to get as much as I can before I am out of this league.
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Who Is Damien Wilkins
By examining Wilkins career it becomes apparent what his contribution the Timberwolves could be. In a best case scenario Wilkins could develop into a solid option off of the bench who can provide defensive intensity and an ability to get to the basket. Wilkins has displayed both leadership and willingness to be a role player in the past.
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Who Is Dwayne Jones?
Rumors have begun to circulate that the Minnesota Timberwolves have signed undrafted free agent Dwayne Jones formerly of St. Joseph’s University in Pennsylvania. Jones had slipped through the draft and was looking to return to school. He had not signed an agent and it appeared that things were in order for him to resume his career under Coach Phil Martelli.
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A Second Chance At A Sensational Two
The Minnesota Timberwolves drafted a shooting guard with immense talent who possesses some questions about character. The year was 1993 and his name was J.R. Rider, who immediately changed his name to Isaiah. In 2005 the Timberwolves selected a talented shooting guard who came from a big time program but also came with questions about his work ethic and attitude. Luckily, Rashad McCants refrained from changing his name to Zeke.
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Timberwolves 2005 Draft Outlook
The bad news is that the Wolves have a frightening history with the #14 pick. In 1999, they selected Duke point guard Will Avery with the #14 pick, ahead of players like Ron Artest, Andrei Kirilenko, Manu Ginobili, James Posey…heck, even Jeff Foster, Kenny Thomas, and Devean George. Needless to say, Avery turned out to be a major bust. Not a good omen.
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KG's Franchise
Steve Francis is the perfect compliment to KG. Sure he can be labelled a little ‘ball greedy’ sometimes, but KG is a very unselfish team player, so these two might just work together. Both of their contracts are up in 4 years time too. So they have a 4 year time frame to win the championship.
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Minnesota’s Playoff hopes on life support
Timberwolves playoff hopes vanishing
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Sprewell Clutch In Must Win Over Sacramento
Latrell Sprewell Clutch in Victory over Sacramento
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Wolves Burned by Suns
The Timberwolves fell short in Phoenix as they take one last shot at a playoff seed.
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Wolves Swat Hornets
With Troy Hudson's hot first quarter shooting giving Minnesota a nice early lead, the Timberwolves were able defeat the Hornets 107-102 on Wednesday night.
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Wolves Put In Miami’s Vice
The Miami Heat defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves on Thursday night with a series of late-game surges.
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Wolves Ready For Second Half of Season
With the trade deadline come and gone and no trades completed, the Minnesota Timberwolves are exactly where they were this time last week.
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T-Wolves BLOCK Has Payton Or Kidd Coming To Minnesota
Jason Kidd has recently expressed uncertainty and reluctance to continue with the Nets, and word is that his agent has been talking with the Wolves administration. Kidd could be the new blood that the Wolves need to trigger a late season run.
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The T-Wolves Are Back Under Kaptain Kevin McHale!
On Thursday night the Wolves showed their true colors in their 94-88 victory over LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers.
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It's Now Or Never For Spree
With the trade deadline rapidly approaching, it's time for Latrell Sprewell to make a statement about how valuable he really is.
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It's About 'Flippin' Time!
The struggling Timberwoves have reason to start thinking optimistically again. Kevin McHale gave long time friend and ex-college roommate Flip Saunders his walking papers this Saturday. This much overdue decision can only mean good things for the Wolves.
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Will The Big Ticket Defend His Throne As MVP?
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Mike Lipetzky
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Could More Trent Equal Less Peeler?
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Zero Hour
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A Victim of Integrity
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Change for the Sake of Change: Wally Szczerbiak IS Steve Smith
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A Season In Review
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And now… your Minnesota Knicks!!
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Last, best chance for this pack of Wolves
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The Hoops Gospel - Playoff Tuneup
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The Law of Averages
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One step forward, two steps back
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Talent, execution, coaching: The Blame Game
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The Home Stretch
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Wally Dangerfield by Mike Lipetzky
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Timberwolves Report 9/20/01
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TWOLVES Weeks 2 through 5
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Player Review
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Another belated column
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Timberwolves Playoff Postmortem: A look back and a look ahead.
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Timberwolves 2001 Post-Draft Report
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A look over the Wolves
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The Nets are still feeling the effects of the Jason Kidd trade and fans believe that more moves are on the horizon.
The Bulls struggled unexpectedly this season, but fans are hopeful that John Paxson can rectify that quickly.
Chris Kaman and Corey Maggette had good seasons but there was little else to celebrate during Elton Brand's absence. 
The Bobcats have a ton of youth, leading many fans to dream of yet another draft night trade.
GM John Hammond has given Milwaukee fans some confidence heading into the offseason.
Billy Knight will officially depart from Atlanta in less than two months, but there is still no clear cut favorite to replace him.
A young, talented, and hard-working .500 team will naturally upgrade themselves with the additions of Oden, Rudy, and a lottery pick.
Instead of dealing Carmelo, it's time for Mark Warkentien and Rex Chapman to take the blame for the trade that brought Allen Iverson to Denver.
Donnie Walsh is in charge of the Knicks as they enter the 2008 NBA Draft, giving New York fans much more confidence than they had when Isiah Thomas was pulling the strings.
Memphis fans do not have much confidence in the front office, especially after they dealt Pau Gasol to the Lakers for almost nothing in return, so how do they see the draft playing out?
The Sonics are in the most unique situation of all the teams heading into this year's lottery because of their uncertain future in Seattle. However, everyone seems to agree that they could use a top-flight point guard.
Two years removed from winning the NBA title, the Heat have the best chance to land the top overall pick in June's NBA Draft. Miami fans tend to agree on one thing - they want Michael Beasley or Derrick Rose.
The blueprint to stop LeBron James is simple: limit his penetration and double-team him on pick-and-rolls. 