Minnesota Timberwolves – Hoops Habit https://hoopshabit.com NBA News, Rumors, Analysis, Opinion and Stats Thu, 25 Aug 2022 02:43:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.20 Timberwolves’ new twin towers could change the NBA’s blueprint yet again https://hoopshabit.com/2022/08/18/timberwolves-analyzing-towns-gobert/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/08/18/timberwolves-analyzing-towns-gobert/#respond Thu, 18 Aug 2022 21:00:53 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=447728 This offseason, the Minnesota Timberwolves gave up pretty much everything they had in order to acquire star center Rudy Gobert from the Utah Jazz. In Utah, Gobert was a three-time Defensive Player of the Year, a three-time All-Star, and a four-time All-NBA player, but never had much playoff success with his team. Minnesota experienced the same […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/08/18/timberwolves-analyzing-towns-gobert/feed/ 0 Eric Paschall could have major opportunity with Minnesota Timberwolves https://hoopshabit.com/2022/08/02/eric-paschall-minnesota-timberwolves/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/08/02/eric-paschall-minnesota-timberwolves/#respond Tue, 02 Aug 2022 10:00:06 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=447237 The Minnesota Timberwolves announced on July 30 that they signed forward Eric Paschall to a one-year, two-way contract. Paschall was drafted 41st overall in the 2019 NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors. On a Warriors team plagued by injuries, Paschall averaged 14 points on 49.7 percent shooting, 4.6 rebounds, and 2.1 assists in his […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/08/02/eric-paschall-minnesota-timberwolves/feed/ 0 4 roster moves the Minnesota Timberwolves need to make this offseason https://hoopshabit.com/2022/06/29/moves-minnesota-timberwolves-offseason/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/06/29/moves-minnesota-timberwolves-offseason/#respond Wed, 29 Jun 2022 16:00:09 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=446402 The Minnesota Timberwolves started to put it all together this season. Anthony Edwards showed that he is going to fulfill the promise of being the number-one draft pick while Karl-Anthony Towns continued to be stellar on offense, which has been the hallmark of his career. The Timberwolves scored more points than anyone else in the […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/06/29/moves-minnesota-timberwolves-offseason/feed/ 0 How does Walker Kessler fit with the Minnesota Timberwolves? https://hoopshabit.com/2022/06/27/walker-kessler-minnesota-timberwolves/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/06/27/walker-kessler-minnesota-timberwolves/#respond Mon, 27 Jun 2022 16:00:05 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=446419 In the 2022 NBA Draft, the Minnesota Timberwolves traded the 19th overall pick and a future second-round pick to the Memphis Grizzlies. In return, they received the 22nd and 29th picks that night. With the 22nd pick, they selected Walker Kessler from Auburn University. With a 7’1”, 255-lb frame, the 20-year-old is a traditional center […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/06/27/walker-kessler-minnesota-timberwolves/feed/ 0 Exit Survey: 3 goals for the young-and-hungry Minnesota Timberwolves https://hoopshabit.com/2022/06/03/exit-survey-minnesota-timberwolves/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/06/03/exit-survey-minnesota-timberwolves/#respond Fri, 03 Jun 2022 16:00:09 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=445602 The Minnesota Timberwolves may well look back on the 2022 postseason as a real turning point for the franchise. Long considered one of the worst places to ply your trade in the NBA, the front office got some moves right in drafting Anthony Edwards and even adding Patrick Beverley when they did. This led to […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/06/03/exit-survey-minnesota-timberwolves/feed/ 0 Tim Connelly could bring lasting change to Minnesota Timberwolves https://hoopshabit.com/2022/05/24/tim-connelly-minnesota-timberwolves/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/05/24/tim-connelly-minnesota-timberwolves/#respond Tue, 24 May 2022 16:00:17 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=445238 According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, the Minnesota Timberwolves have signed Denver Nuggets president Tim Connelly to a five-year deal. Minnesota has an agreement with Denver Nuggets President Tim Connelly to become the Timberwolves’ new President of Basketball Operations on a five-year, $40 million deal with a kicker for ownership equity, sources tell me and […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/05/24/tim-connelly-minnesota-timberwolves/feed/ 0 NBA Trades: 3 teams that should explore a D’Angelo Russell trade https://hoopshabit.com/2022/05/07/nba-trades-dangelo-russell/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/05/07/nba-trades-dangelo-russell/#respond Sat, 07 May 2022 10:00:37 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=444739 In his first trip to the playoffs with the Minnesota Timberwolves, things did not go according to plan for D’Angelo Russell, which has put his name in some hypothetical NBA trades and rumors. The former All-Star guard struggled to find his footing throughout the entire six-game series against the Memphis Grizzlies, having put up some […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/05/07/nba-trades-dangelo-russell/feed/ 0 NBA Trades: 3 D’Angelo Russell trades for the Minnesota Timberwolves to consider https://hoopshabit.com/2022/05/04/nba-trades-dangelo-russell-timberwolves/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/05/04/nba-trades-dangelo-russell-timberwolves/#respond Wed, 04 May 2022 10:00:19 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=444722 When the Minnesota Timberwolves were eliminated by the Memphis Grizzlies in Game 6 of their first-round series, there were a lot of various narratives being thrown around. People criticized Karl-Anthony Towns and his shot selection down the stretch. The T-Wolves were blasted for blowing so many leads throughout the series, thus losing a bout they […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/05/04/nba-trades-dangelo-russell-timberwolves/feed/ 0 Will the Minnesota Timberwolves trade D’Angelo Russell? https://hoopshabit.com/2022/04/30/minnesota-timberwolves-dangelo-russell-2/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/04/30/minnesota-timberwolves-dangelo-russell-2/#respond Sat, 30 Apr 2022 21:00:52 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=444594 The Minnesota Timberwolves just lost to the Memphis Grizzlies in the first round. However, the weirdest part about the series was, it feels like the T-Wolves were the better team for the majority of it. They blew multiple 20-point leads, fell apart down the stretch of games, and allowed Memphis to climb their way back […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/04/30/minnesota-timberwolves-dangelo-russell-2/feed/ 0 Jaden McDaniels is the X-Factor for the Minnesota Timberwolves https://hoopshabit.com/2022/04/20/jaden-mcdaniels-minnesota-timberwolves/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/04/20/jaden-mcdaniels-minnesota-timberwolves/#respond Wed, 20 Apr 2022 12:00:23 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=444302 The Minnesota Timberwolves have quickly turned into one of the most enjoyable teams in basketball. Between coach Chris Finch’s scheming, Karl Anthony-Towns’ shooting, Anthony Edwards’ explosiveness, and Pat Beverley’s, uh, Beverley-ness, the Timberwolves have married a cohesive identity on both sides of the ball with fun individual characters for the first time in years. Add […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/04/20/jaden-mcdaniels-minnesota-timberwolves/feed/ 0 Less is more for Karl-Anthony Towns and the Minnesota Timberwolves https://hoopshabit.com/2022/04/05/karl-anthony-towns-minnesota-timberwolves/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/04/05/karl-anthony-towns-minnesota-timberwolves/#respond Tue, 05 Apr 2022 12:00:50 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=443734 A former number one overall pick and the self-proclaimed best big man shooter of all-time, Karl-Anthony Towns was often seen as the savior for a Minnesota Timberwolves franchise starved of postseason appearances. But the T-Wolves are now on the precipice of making the playoffs for just the second time in 18 seasons. They’re currently locked […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/04/05/karl-anthony-towns-minnesota-timberwolves/feed/ 0 Minnesota Timberwolves: The evolution of D’Angelo Russell https://hoopshabit.com/2022/03/23/minnesota-timberwolves-dangelo-russell/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/03/23/minnesota-timberwolves-dangelo-russell/#respond Wed, 23 Mar 2022 19:00:41 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=443381 If you haven’t been paying attention to the suddenly competent Minnesota Timberwolves recently, what the hell are you doing? Karl-Anthony Towns is looking like the superstar we always thought he could be and Anthony Edwards continues to make strides as a menacing second or third offensive option. Point guard Patrick Beverley went on JJ Redick’s […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/03/23/minnesota-timberwolves-dangelo-russell/feed/ 0 The Minnesota Timberwolves demand to be taken seriously https://hoopshabit.com/2022/03/15/minnesota-timberwolves-demand-seriously/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/03/15/minnesota-timberwolves-demand-seriously/#respond Tue, 15 Mar 2022 21:00:52 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=443164 The Minnesota Timberwolves are quietly one of the hottest teams in the West. Karl-Anthony Towns proclaimed this pretty loudly with a 60-point eruption on Monday night. But the NBA seems to be sleeping on the team as a whole – they find themselves just 12th in the latest NBA.com power ranking despite winning eight of […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/03/15/minnesota-timberwolves-demand-seriously/feed/ 0 Could the Minnesota Timberwolves be title contenders soon? https://hoopshabit.com/2022/03/09/minnesota-timberwolves-title-contenders/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/03/09/minnesota-timberwolves-title-contenders/#respond Wed, 09 Mar 2022 20:00:05 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=442881 After getting the first overall pick in 2020, the Minnesota Timberwolves have been a team on the rise this season. With a record of 37-29, the Timberwolves sit at seventh in the Western Conference. But with the core of the team being so young, the question can be asked, could the Timberwolves be title contenders […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/03/09/minnesota-timberwolves-title-contenders/feed/ 0 3 keys for the Minnesota Timberwolves for the rest of the season https://hoopshabit.com/2022/01/14/minnesota-timberwolves-3-keys/ https://hoopshabit.com/2022/01/14/minnesota-timberwolves-3-keys/#respond Fri, 14 Jan 2022 22:00:06 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=440613 The Minnesota Timberwolves were hoping to march into Memphis on January 13 after a rough 128-125 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans just two days prior. As far as picking up a win went, things looked good, and it seemed like Minnesota would simultaneously rebound from a rough defeat and play spoil to the Memphis […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2022/01/14/minnesota-timberwolves-3-keys/feed/ 0 The Minnesota Timberwolves have come a long way in recent years https://hoopshabit.com/2021/12/29/minnesota-timberwolves-come-long-way/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/12/29/minnesota-timberwolves-come-long-way/#respond Wed, 29 Dec 2021 13:00:56 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=439925 Four years ago, in the 2017-18 season, the Minnesota Timberwolves made the NBA playoffs for the first time since 2004. The long-awaited journey was over after the first round, though, and the team finished with 36 wins and 46 losses in the 11th place in the Western Conference the very next year. The next two […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/12/29/minnesota-timberwolves-come-long-way/feed/ 0 NBA Rumors: Anthony Edwards calls out Jimmy Butler postgame https://hoopshabit.com/2021/11/26/nba-rumors-anthony-edwards-jimmy-butler/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/11/26/nba-rumors-anthony-edwards-jimmy-butler/#respond Fri, 26 Nov 2021 13:00:46 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=438727 The Minnesota Timberwolves have won five games in a row and sophomore wing Anthony Edwards deserves a ton of credit for that. He has been playing great basketball as the Wolves attempt to make a push for the playoffs this year. Edwards has been lights out for the last five games. He’s averaging 22.6 points […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/11/26/nba-rumors-anthony-edwards-jimmy-butler/feed/ 0 NBA Trade Rumors: Timberwolves eyeing Myles Turner and Ben Simmons https://hoopshabit.com/2021/11/20/nba-trade-rumors-myles-turner-ben-simmons/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/11/20/nba-trade-rumors-myles-turner-ben-simmons/#respond Sat, 20 Nov 2021 20:00:38 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=438406 The Minnesota Timberwolves are on the playoff hunt this season. After only one playoff appearance in the past 17 years (and being eliminated in the first round), they want to play postseason basketball again, and some recent NBA trade rumors prove that. With Karl-Anthony Towns and Anthony Edwards at the helm, Minnesota has a nice […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/11/20/nba-trade-rumors-myles-turner-ben-simmons/feed/ 0 Minnesota Timberwolves: Is the Patrick Beverley effect real? https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/27/timberwolves-patrick-beverley-effect/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/27/timberwolves-patrick-beverley-effect/#respond Wed, 27 Oct 2021 12:00:59 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=437019 In a meeting between the Miami Heat and the Minnesota Timberwolves last season, Heat guard Jimmy Butler got into a heated exchange with Karl-Anthony Towns, calling him, “soft as baby [expletive]”. The comment harkened back to Butler’s time on the Timberwolves, when Butler complained that the stars of the Timberwolves, mainly Andrew Wiggins and Karl-Anthony […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/27/timberwolves-patrick-beverley-effect/feed/ 0 The Minnesota Timberwolves are a completely new team https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/21/minnesota-timberwolves-new-team/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/21/minnesota-timberwolves-new-team/#respond Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:00:03 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=437001 In 2018, the Minnesota Timberwolves made the playoffs for the first time since 2004. On the back of some great play by guys like Karl-Anthony Towns, Andrew Wiggins, and yes, even Jimmy Butler, the Wolves broke one of the longest active playoff droughts not just in the NBA, but in all of professional sports. Now, […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/21/minnesota-timberwolves-new-team/feed/ 0 Minnesota Timberwolves: 3 possible Karl-Anthony Towns trade packages https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/03/timberwolves-karl-anthony-towns-trade/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/03/timberwolves-karl-anthony-towns-trade/#respond Sun, 03 Oct 2021 14:00:35 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=436212 Even after a little bit of time to cool off and reset, the reaction to the removal of Gersson Rosas as the head man in charge for the Minnesota Timberwolves is still resonating throughout the NBA universe. Then, not far behind was the tweet heard round the world. Karl-Anthony Towns was rather taken aback by […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/10/03/timberwolves-karl-anthony-towns-trade/feed/ 0 Minnesota Timberwolves: Grading their moves in NBA free agency https://hoopshabit.com/2021/09/29/minnesota-timberwolves-nba-free-agency/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/09/29/minnesota-timberwolves-nba-free-agency/#respond Wed, 29 Sep 2021 14:00:59 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=435926 The Minnesota Timberwolves have had a very up and down offseason. This is not a good situation for a team that did not make the playoffs again, despite the amount of extremely high draft picks they have on their roster. With that being said, they did not have a pick in the 2021 NBA draft […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/09/29/minnesota-timberwolves-nba-free-agency/feed/ 0 Timberwolves: KAT reacts to stunning firing of GM Rosas https://hoopshabit.com/2021/09/22/timberwolves-kat-reacts-stunning-firing/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/09/22/timberwolves-kat-reacts-stunning-firing/#respond Wed, 22 Sep 2021 19:44:43 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=435842 In the NBA, keeping your stars apprised of big moves seems like the least a team can do, but it looks like the Minnesota Timberwolves violated that cardinal rule on Wednesday. According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, the Timberwolves fired general manager Gersson Rosas, and it sounds like that’s the first that All-Star big […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/09/22/timberwolves-kat-reacts-stunning-firing/feed/ 0 Minnesota Timberwolves: Offseason grade and win-total prediction https://hoopshabit.com/2021/08/29/timberwolves-offseason-grade-wins/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/08/29/timberwolves-offseason-grade-wins/#respond Sun, 29 Aug 2021 18:00:45 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=434954 The Minnesota Timberwolves have had quite the uneventful NBA offseason but if they got a letter grade, what would it be? The Timberwolves had a very average offseason, to say the least. The team had no draft picks and only made two small signings in free agency. The team had a couple of trades worth […]

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]]> https://hoopshabit.com/2021/08/29/timberwolves-offseason-grade-wins/feed/ 0 Minnesota Timberwolves: Instant reactions to the Patrick Beverley trade https://hoopshabit.com/2021/08/17/timberwolves-patrick-beverley-trade/ https://hoopshabit.com/2021/08/17/timberwolves-patrick-beverley-trade/#respond Tue, 17 Aug 2021 16:38:18 +0000 http://hoopshabit.com/?p=434449 The Minnesota Timberwolves and Memphis Grizzlies were certainly up early Tuesday morning making a surprise trade that no one saw coming. First reported by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Timberwolves are acquiring Patrick Beverley from the Grizzlies in exchange for Jarrett Culver and Juancho Hernangomez. This marks the second time that Beverley has been traded within […]

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