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| Wolves eye top spot in annual NBA Draft Lottery | Tue May 17 11:14:42 2011 EST |
| 11 NBA Draft. A "weighted" lottery, 14 ping-pong balls numbered one through 14 will be placed in a drum and four will be selected. The 1,000 combination possibilities will be assigned to the 14 participating lottery teams by computer. The Minnesota Timberwolves finished the 2010-11 season with the NBA's worst record at 17-65, and will be assigned 250 combinations, giving them a 25 percent chance of landing the top selection. Houston, the best team in the lottery at 42-39, will have only five com | |
| Minneapolis proposes new Vikings stadium plan | Mon May 9 17:08:52 2011 EST |
| layed in Metropolitan Stadium from their 1961 inception through the end of the 1981 season. The club has called the Metrodome home since 1982. Concerns over the feasibility of a new stadium were intensified when the Vikes were forced out of the domed arena due to a snowstorm in mid-December which caused the roof to tear and deflate. The other key part to the proposal is that the Target Center, which hosts the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves, would undergo a $95 million renovation, the report said. | |
| Indiana's Jones slows Rose | Tue Apr 26 03:23:00 2011 EST |
| on. Jones averaged 6.3 points per game and shot 47 percent from the field during the regular season. On Feb. 11, he scored all 19 of his points in the fourth quarter, and the Pacers pulled out a 116-105 come-from-behind victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves. ``It's just a matter of opportunities,'' he said. ``The coaches have given me a chance to be effective on the offensive end. He (Vogel) runs plays for me. So, I'm just trying to move the ball and make the right play and just bring a sp | |
| Minnesota's Love named Most Improved Player | Thu Apr 21 15:27:06 2011 EST |
| New York, NY (Sports Network) - Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love has been named the NBA's Most Improved Player for the 2010-11 season. Love received 66 first-place votes and a total of 400 points from a panel of 116 sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada, topping Portland's LaMarcus Aldridge for the honor. Aldridge finished with 157 points and 11 first-place votes in the balloting. Players were awarded five points for a first-place vote, three points for | |
| Budinger's 35 boost Rockets past T-Wolves | Wed Apr 13 22:36:42 2011 EST |
| Minneapolis, MN (Sports Network) - Chase Budinger scored 35 points, Goran Dragic registered his first career triple-double and the Houston Rockets concluded their season with a 121-102 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves at Target Center. Kevin Martin finished with 25 points and Courtney Lee supplied 22 off the bench for the Rockets (43-39), who are out of the playoffs despite recording their fifth consecutive winning season. Dragic posted 11 points and compiled the same amount of rebounds | |
| Wolves aim to snap long losing streak vs. Rockets | Wed Apr 13 11:03:24 2011 EST |
| (Sports Network) - The Minnesota Timberwolves hope to stop a nagging 14-game losing streak when they close out the 2010-11 season tonight versus the Houston Rockets at the Target Center. The Timberwolves haven't reached the playoffs since the 2003-04 campaign and their losing ways continued with Monday's 135-127 overtime setback in Phoenix. Channing Frye hit nine three-pointers for a career-high 33 points to burn Minnesota, which got 26 points from Michael Beasley and 24 out of Anthony Randolph | |
| Lowly Wolves visit Phoenix | Mon Apr 11 10:58:54 2011 EST |
| (Sports Network) - The Minnesota Timberwolves have just two chances remaining to end their lengthy 13-game losing streak, as they take on the Phoenix Suns tonight at US Airways Center. Minnesota will wrap up its disappointing 2010-11 campaign back at home versus Houston on Wednesday and is mired in the longest losing streak since matching a franchise-record 16-game slide from Feb. 24-March 28, 2010. The losing trend continued with Saturday's 130-106 blowout loss in Denver, which got 37 points f | |
| Nuggets begin crucial stretch with Wolves in town | Sat Apr 9 10:56:38 2011 EST |
| (Sports Network) - The Denver Nuggets are closing in on the No. 5 spot in the Western Conference and will begin the final homestand of the regular season tonight versus the lowly Minnesota Timberwolves. The Nuggets are 1 1/2 games ahead of Portland and two games in front of New Orleans for the fifth spot with three games to go. They will also host Golden State before closing out the regular season next week in Utah. Denver has lost two of three games since a six-game winning streak and dropped | |
| Reserves spark Suns over lowly Timberwolves | Wed Apr 6 22:28:33 2011 EST |
| Minneapolis, MN (Sports Network) - Marcin Gortat had 20 points and 16 rebounds, but most of the Phoenix Suns' scoring came from the bench in a 108-98 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves. The Suns got 58 points from their reserves, including 19 from Aaron Brooks and 17 from Hakim Warrick, and moved to 1-2 on a five-game road trip with only their second win in eight games. The Timberwolves, missing double-double machine Kevin Love again, suffered their 12th straight loss despite a game-high 2 | |
| Suns, Wolves tangle in Twin Cities | Wed Apr 6 11:16:44 2011 EST |
| (Sports Network) - Two teams playing out the string meet in the Twin Cities Wednesday when the Phoenix Suns shoot for their seventh consecutive win over the hapless Minnesota Timberwolves. A year after reaching the Western Conference finals, Phoenix is out of the playoff picture and attempting to avoid a fifth consecutive road loss tonight. The Suns are 0-2 on a five-game trek after falling to East-leading Chicago, 97-94, in the Windy City on Tuesday. Vince Carter had 23 points off the bench to | |
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