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CONTINUATION OF THE “WHAT IF” WOLVES SERIES. IN THIS SERIES, I PLAY THE ROLE OF TIMBERWOLVES OVERLORD AND GO BACK IN TIME AND RIGHT SOME OF THE WRONGS OF OUR FAVORITE FRANCHISE. SINCE THIS IS THE TIMBERWOLVES, THERE ARE A LOT OF WRONGS. THIS SERIES MAY GO ON FOREVER.
“What If” Wolves Volume Three: We got our big man, but who will get him the ball?
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If you weren’t alive to witness the glory of 90s basketball, you missed out.
Play was dominated by big men in the post, point guards that controlled the game, and the GOAT (don’t get me started with LeBron James and Kobe Bryant talk). Since there was only one Michael Jordan, teams tried to build around the post and the man who could get him the ball. Almost every team was looking for their own version of “John Stockton to Karl Malone”, a dynamic duo that would lead their team to the championship (despite the fact that neither Stockton nor Malone ever won a title, or were remotely decent people, for that matter).
The Minnesota Timberwolves were no different.
The Wolves had just drafted the greatest player in franchise history, Kevin Garnett. “KG”, “The Kid”, The Big Ticket”, and “The Franchise” (Man, the nicknames for big guys in the 90s were outstanding: “The Dream”, “The Mailman”, “The Round Mound of Rebound, ” and my favorite big man of the time, “The Admiral”).
UNITED STATES – APRIL 18: College Basketball: Closeup portrait of Naval Academy David Robinson (Navy Midshipman 1st Class) with ball aboard ship, Cover, Annapolis, MD 4/18/1986 (Photo by Bill Ballenberg/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images/Getty Images) (SetNumber: X32978)
With the power forward position in good hands after drafting “Ticket”, what the Wolves lacked was any semblance of respectable point guard play. The franchise already crushed my dream of drafting Tim Hardaway when they drafted Pooh Richardson out of UCLA. Pooh was still probably the best PG in franchise history up to the 1996 NBA draft. Granted, the list of point guards that had played for the Wolves up to that point is pretty gross. Let me know if you remember any of these floor generals. Pooh Richardson (only played three…
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