Archive for June, 2009

Jun30th

What About the Rest of the Litter?

AUTHOR: Luke Jensen | IN: Timberwolves | COMMENTS: None Yet

With all the commotion surrounding international diaper dandy Ricky Rubio, the rest of the Minnesota Timberwolves seemingly endless draft picks from last Thursday have been lost in the shuffle. Other than aggravating Ricky Rubio, what does the Jonny Flynn selection mean? What about Ty Lawson, Wayne Ellington, Nick Calathes and Henk Norel? Rubio was only one of six new pups taken by the Timberwolves last Thursday night, although Calathes and Lawson were immediately dealt as the Wolves could not carry that many rookies next year, let alone that many point guards. Norel is another selection that allows the Wolves to [...]

Jun29th

Draft Night Drama

AUTHOR: Matthew P.C. Holmquist | IN: Timberwolves | COMMENTS: 4 Comments

Ricky Rubio. The kid even has a fun name to say. Let me start off by saying the team I follow has a pretty miserable past. We have one bright spot where we made a dumb move and picked a scrawny high school power forward with the fifth pick in the draft… and that scrawny kid became one of the best power forwards of all time. Even though we had Kevin Garnett on the team for 50 years, we only got out of the first round once. ONCE! It still hurts to think about all the years of hope and [...]

Jun29th

Welcome To Dunking with Wolves!

AUTHOR: Matthew P.C. Holmquist | IN: Timberwolves | COMMENTS: 2 Comments

Welcome to Dunking with Wolves, the newest addition to FanSided.com.
Luke and I are here to humor, inform, and ultimately give you something you love to waste your time reading. Both of us have been die hard Minnesota Timberwolves fans since their beginnings, so we know a thing or two about the franchise, and it’s extremely short ups and extremely long downs.
As we continue working on this blog, I hope all of our readers are as excited and apprehensive about the team’s bright future as we both are. We both look forward to hearing from you (in the comments section), and [...]