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Do you remember the last time the Minnesota Timberwolves played basketball?
Since the Wolves last played, the Minnesota football team got flat-out embarrassed on national television, then went through all five stages of grief before building a time machine that sent them back to the days of Kirk Cousins, and now, in one fell swoop, has gone from pumpkins to the NFL’s new belle of the ball.
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And somewhere in the midst of all of this, Joan Beringer is officially no longer a teenager and is starting to go gray.
I’m not saying having no Wolves games is responsible for any of this, or that if we had played sooner, maybe Beringer wouldn’t have had to have a birthday (is that how that works?). I’m not saying that! But man, does it feel good to finally have this team back on the court and on our screens again.
In their first game back in eons, the Wolves laced up and faced off against a team in the Dallas Mavericks that seems to be fast-tracking a soft rebuild. On paper, both teams are pretty evenly matched in several categories, namely FG% (DAL #4, MIN #5), turnovers (DAL #10, MIN #11), and steals (DAL #14, MIN #15), so the Wolves needed to win the possession battle.
Certainly, the Mavericks would be up for the challenge, so it would stand to reason that this would be a challenging game for the Wolves. Right?
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Right?
Wrong
To start the game, Jonathan Kuminga was on a torrid pace, muscling to the basket for a lay-up and cutting to the rim for a dunk off a beautiful find by LaMelo Ball, who proceeded to find Jaden McDaniels on a similar play a few possessions later.
The Mavericks settled in and muddied the game as the quarter went on. At the 5:16 mark, TJ Shannon subbed in, and PJ Washington proceeded to bully him to the rim for an and-one. This was a great quarter for Washington, as he finished with 10 points in the quarter.
Perhaps an accurate distillation of the rest of the game, though, is that those 10 points would be it for Washington, and the Mavs 24-19 lead would soon be relinquished and gone for good.
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Ayo Dosunmu and the bench mob of Bones Hyland, Jaylen Clark, Trey Lyles, and Joan…
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Publish date : 2026-11-13 05:35:00
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