The Minnesota Timberwolves have chosen Ryan Saunders as their full-fledged head coach – and the first millennial to hold the job in the NBA. The team announced Monday that the 33-year-old Saunders will stay in the post he held on an interim basis during the second half of this past season, the role long held […]

New Orleans has bucked the odds and won the NBA draft lottery, and now will have the first chance at choosing Zion Williamson next month. The Pelicans won the lottery for the first time since 2012, when they selected Anthony Davis. And the lottery win comes after a season when Davis wanted a trade – […]

Gersson Rosas has firsthand experience with success from unconventional strategy from his 17-year run with the Houston Rockets. An outside-the-box approach might be necessary, if the Minnesota Timberwolves are going to catch up in the cutthroat Western Conference. ”We’re going to question the norm with everything that we do,” Rosas said. The first Latino to […]

>>T’wolves To Hire Rosas As President Of Baseball Ops (Minneapolis, MN)  —  The Minnesota Timberwolves are making history with the hiring of their next president of basketball operations.  Multiple reports say the Wolves will hire Gersson Rosas to the position, making him the NBA’s first-ever Latino top basketball executive.  The Colombia native has spent 18 […]

Rarely has a pro sports team experienced such a difference in drama levels from the start to finish of one season that these Minnesota Timberwolves did. As the Timberwolves wound down the second half of their schedule that was as dull as the first part was eventful, they were outspoken in their desire to establish […]

NUGGETS 99, TIMBERWOLVES 95 Nikola Jokic had 29 points, 14 rebounds and had a key strip in the closing seconds as Denver scored the game’s final 15 points and secured the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference playoffs. James Murray added 17 for the Nuggets, who are in the postseason for the first time […]

The Minnesota Timberwolves will make hiring a new president of basketball operations their first offseason priority. The Timberwolves announced Wednesday before their final game of the season in Denver they will start an immediate search for a front office leader, with the fates of general manager Scott Layden and interim head coach Ryan Saunders yet […]

Nikola Jokic has played only 16 minutes over the last two games in the hope he will be fresh for the Denver Nuggets’ first playoff appearance in six years. The strategy might have paid off in a big way, thanks to some help from the Oklahoma City Thunder. Oklahoma City rallied to beat Houston on […]

RAPTORS 120, TIMBERWOLVES 100 Kawhi Leonard scored 20 points and Toronto closed its regular season with a win over Minnesota. Fred VanVleet scored 16 points, and Chris Boucher had a career-high 15 points and 13 rebounds off the bench for the Raptors, who finished the regular season at 58-24. Andrew Wiggins and Gorgui Dieng each […]

The playoff-bound Toronto Raptors will complete their regular season Tuesday night by visiting the Minnesota Timberwolves, who will miss the postseason. The Raptors finished their regular-season home schedule Sunday with a 117-109 overtime victory over the desperate Miami Heat, who were trying to maintain their playoff hopes. The Timberwolves defeated the Heat last week. Danny […]