Grizzlies 118, Wolves 107: Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory
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There have been some brutal, brutal losses to cover and write about throughout the years. It feels like we’ve made every excuse in the book, trying with all our might to spin things in a positive light, mostly thinking about the potential long-term gains over the short-term losses.
Tonight is one of the most inexcusable losses I can remember.
The Memphis Grizzlies are down both Ja Morant and Jaren Jackson, Jr., as well as Justise Winslow. Minnesota was at full strength tonight.
The Minnesota Timberwolves led by double digits in the second half of this game and inexplicably threw it away.
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Nearly 300 days after a 117-111 loss to the Rockets back on March 10, our favorite team returned in the fashion in which they left us: chaotically.
After playing just one game together last season, Karl-Anthony Towns and D’Angelo Russell played two games this season before Towns suffered a left wrist dislocation. The injury left the Minnesota Timberwolves without its centerpiece, an identity, and the trust of a fan base that quickly grew tired of Towns appearance on the injury report last season as “questionable” for weeks on end with an injury to the same wrist he injured this season.
After missing six games that were all losses, Karl-Anthony Towns returned to play for the Minnesota Timberwolves Saturday night against the San Antonio Spurs. In his postgame media session, KAT.