NBA Cancels First Two Weeks Of Season
Sticking to his deadline, NBA Commissioner David Stern erased the first two weeks of the season after negotiations failed to produce a new labor deal and warned that more games were in jeopardy of being cut.
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Sticking to his deadline, NBA Commissioner David Stern erased the first two weeks of the season after negotiations failed to produce a new labor deal and warned that more games were in jeopardy of being cut.
Even with a lockout firmly in place across the NBA, the Minnesota Timberwolves have still managed to land one of the biggest free agents on the market.
The Minnesota Timberwolves are in the process of interviewing candidates to fill Kurt Rambis's newly vacated position as the team's head coach.
The NBA's labor deal has expired, and the league has locked out its players, the second pro sports league shut down by labor strife.
Union chief Billy Hunter says "it's obvious the lockout will happen tonight" after players and owners failed to reach a new collective bargaining agreement, potentially putting the 2011-12 season in jeopardy.
Ricky Rubio is making his long-awaited move to the NBA and will join the Minnesota Timberwolves next season.
Enes Kanter is unraveling the mystery surrounding his game, one workout at a time.
Now that his Spanish league season is over, Ricky Rubio can let everyone know where he's headed next.
Minnesota Timberwolves draft pick Ricky Rubio says he is talking with Spanish club Barcelona about his future.
A Minnesota man is hoping to play again for the Timberwolves after playing basketball at the University of Minnesota and overseas.
While Ricky Rubio mulls coming to the NBA next season, a deadline of sorts came and went on Tuesday without any word on whether the Spanish point guard will be joining the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2010-11.
The NBA is looking for talent and an Orono High School basketball star is hoping to prove that he can play at a professional level.
Kurt Rambis sat in the Minnesota Timberwolves practice facility on Monday, wearing a Timberwolves polo shirt and watching several draft prospects work out in front of a host of coaches, scouts and executives from around the league.
Chase Budinger scored a career-high 35 points and Kevin Martin added 25 to lead the Houston Rockets to a 121-102 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night in the season finale for both teams.
Channing Frye's 3-point shooting carried the Phoenix Suns on Monday night.
There are two goals for the Phoenix Suns as this NBA season comes to a close: Wins games and do it while getting extended looks at some reserves. The Suns showed it was possible to accomplish both in a 108-98 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves.
If this was Deron Williams' last game of the season, it was quite a closing performance. Williams tied a career high with 21 assists and made a tiebreaking jumper with 1.7 seconds to play to lead the New Jersey Nets to a 107-105 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday night.
The Minnesota Wild and the Minnesota Timberwolves will have new homes on the radio dial next season.
They are known as the "Heatles" and they've become NBA rock stars Miami's threesome of Lebron James, Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh garner attention where ever they go.
Derrick Rose had 23 points and 10 assists in three quarters and the Chicago Bulls blew out the Minnesota Timberwolves 108-91 on Wednesday night.
Kevin Durant scored 23 points, Russell Westbrook added 19 points while matching a season-high with five steals and the Oklahoma City Thunder used a balanced attack to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 111-103 on Friday night.
Minnesota Timberwolves power forward Kevin Love did not practice on Tuesday because of a strained left groin.
When Andrew Bynum turned his shoulder and put Minnesota's Michael Beasley flat on the floor with a flagrant foul, it was the ugliest moment in an altogether unsightly night for the Los Angeles Lakers.
An NBA referee has sued The Associated Press and one of its sports writers over a Twitter message suggesting he intentionally made a bad call to make up for a previous bad call that went against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Schools around the metro are taking that week-long (more or less) holiday known as spring break, now through mid-April. Whether going out of town isn't in your financial picture right now or you'd just rather stay home (which is my case -- my kids' spring break isn't until the first week of April. It's nice here in April -- why go away?), here are some ideas to keep your family from going stir-crazy.
