A 12-game losing streak is never cause for celebration. Neither is a 10-year losing streak, even less so when those skids are simultaneous, as in the current case of the Minnesota Timberwolves.
These are dark days, indeed, for basketball in the Twin Cities. Kevin Love, the team's post-Kevin Garnett superstar, practically forced his way to the Cleveland Cavaliers this past summer. Ricky Rubio, Love's most promising running mate, succumbed to a severe ankle injury in just his fifth game of the 2014-15 campaign.
Nikola Pekovic and Kevin Martin, the T-Wolves' only reliable scoring threats, joined Rubio on the shelf shortly thereafter. Minnesota all but waved the white flag when it sent Corey Brewer to the Houston Rockets in December.
It should come as no surprise, then, that the Wolves, at 5-28, are all alone at the bottom of the Western Conference and could challenge the Philadelphia 76ers and New York Knicks for absolute futility in the NBA. These and the league's other dregs can all hope for a brighter future, with draft-day dreams and free-agent coups coloring their respective blueprints.
But only the Wolves ca ...
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