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Five Things To Watch: Minnesota Timberwolves

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Another season marks another chance to feel optimistic about your favorite NBA team’s chances of making some noise. Other than a few brief stretches, Minnesota Timberwolves fans have had trouble finding any reason to be optimistic over the past few years. From injuries to frequent coaching changes to frequent front office switches to Darko Milicic, the Timberwolves have had quite an interesting little decade. This season is a special one. It marks the 10-year anniversary of their 2003-04 run to the Western

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Bernucca: The 10 Worst Offseason Free Agent Signings

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Whenever the NBA and the Players Association negotiate a collective bargaining agreement, the media – including Sheridan Hoops – goes to great lengths to understand and explain its rules, exceptions and nuances. But since the first wave of players began making the jump from high school to the NBA in the mid-1990s, the premise of every new CBA could be summed up in six words: To save the owners from themselves. Restraint never has been the collective strength of NBA owners. In

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Tweet of the Day: Flip Saunders puts a deadline on Pekovic talks

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Minnesota center Nikola Pekovic was a key cog in the Timberwolves ability to remain competitive in Kevin Love’s absence last year. He posted an average of 18 points and 10 rebounds per 36 minutes during the 2012-13 season. Going into the offseason, retaining his services was among the top priorities for GM Flip Saunders and the Wolves’ front office. A month later, Pekovic remains unsigned. Though both sides have yet to agree on the financial aspects of a new deal, Saunders remains hopefully

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Tweet of the Day: Kevin Love promoting a great cause

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Are you in the market for a house? Are you selling a house? Do you flip houses? Or are you, yourself, a housing realtor? Minnesota Timberwolves All-Star forward Kevin Love has a suggestion that you may want to look into. Every real estate agent needs to be a GBH Realtor. Please watch this incredible video from @givebackhomes http://t.co/7DBYU9kN5N RT! — Kevin Love (@kevinlove) August 9, 2013 Founder Blake Andrews got his start working for TOMS Shoes, a shoe company that donates a pair of shoes

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Tweet of the Day: Mike Prada, Others Rip NBA, Shabazz Muhammad

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Every year, NBA rookies enter the Rookie Transition Program—a mandatory multi-day seminar with interactive workshops, counseling sessions and guest appearances from current and former NBA athletes. As with anything, there are rules that must be adhered to when in attendance. Sometimes, however, those rules are broken. In 2008, Mario Chalmers and Darrell Arthur were thrown out of the program—and subsequently fined $20,000 each—for getting caught with women and marijuana in their hotel room. This year, the lot fell to Minnesota Timberwolves rookie Shabazz Muhammad,

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