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You know how at the beginning of every NFL season, everyone is 0-0 and has a chance at the Super Bowl? That is not true in the NBA. For fans of five to 10 teams every year, the NBA draft lottery is the Super Bowl. No other sport decides its future...

Amin Elhassan breaks down the Minnesota Timberwolves draft profile, needs and potential 2013 picks.

Story | Conversation | May 22, 2013

CHICAGO -- In the midst of the Chicago Bulls' preparations for Game 3 against the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday, Grantland's Bill Simmons offered up a reminder that no matter what happens over the next few weeks, the Bulls always must keep an eye on the ...

The NBA playoffs are upon us, with 16 teams competing for the Larry O'Brien Trophy. But what about the other guys? What about the teams we wish were in the playoffs? We may know, in our heads, that they didn't do enough to get into the postseason, bu...

Brian McKitish provides his initial 2013-14 season rankings, as well as thoughts on players ready to take their game to another level.

Just when Kevin Love was getting ready to try to salvage something positive from a lost seasons, one more injury cropped up to end it all.

Amin Elhassan offers four lottery-bound teams that are best set up for the 2013-14 season.

Story | Conversation | April 12, 2013

A season that never really started for Kevin Love is now officially over.

ATLANTA -- Musings on a national title Monday: • Michigan's Mitch McGary is Kevin Love light. McGary is just scratching the surface of what he could become relatively quickly. I keep going back to a shootaround I witnessed at Minnesota when the...

ESPN.com NBA Player Rankings: 26-30

Dear Kobe Bryant, In the middle of a playoff chase that has you clinging tenaciously to the no. 8 seed and yapping about how you have to take more control of the team's defensive strategy, why are you doing this? In the 71st game of your 17...

It's been an agonizing season for Chase Budinger, rehabbing a knee injury in Minnesota while watching his Timberwolves teammates miss open jumper after open jumper without him.

Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love met with a specialist on Wednesday to examine his surgically repaired right hand, and it doesn't appear the former All-Star will be ready to hit the court anytime soon.

It has been a rough year for Kevin Love and the Timberwolves in basketball terms. Love broke his right hand twice, first doing knuckle push-ups, and then during a game shortly after returning. Love wasn't himself in those 18 games, shooting just 35 p...

Ever since Glen Taylor put the Timberwolves on the market last summer, the longtime owner has been in search of an ownership group that would keep the team in Minnesota for the long haul.

Neil Tardy identifies some of the better matchups to exploit in Week 19 (and beyond) of the fantasy basketball season. Features team-by-team schedule strength.