Anthony Davis scores 50 as NBA-leading Lakers beat Timberwolves
Anthony Davis had a season-high 50 points and the Los Angeles Lakers improved to a league-best 21-3 with a 142-125 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday night. Davis hit a floater with 4:39 remaining to reach 50 points for the fourth time in his ...
James Harden scores 49 points on career-high 41 shots in Rockets win
James Harden scored 49 points on a whopping 41 shots from the field and the undermanned Houston Rockets won their seventh straight gamer, 125-105 over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday night. With Russell Westbrook resting, the Rockets needed Harden to shoulder an even bigger scoring ...
Longtime Timberwolves fan Mitsuaki Ono seeks to foster Japan relations with Minnesota
Like countless sports fans, Mitsuaki Ono can pinpoint a formative period in his life that cemented his fandom. The Kawasaki native was living in Rochester, Minnesota, during the 1989-90 school year because IBM assigned his father, Koji, to work in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. As ...
Thibodeau could make Timberwolves genuine contenders
One of my favorite movies, and not just because I live in Chicago — but if you want to see the best city location shots, that's the movie — is the John Belushi/Dan Aykroyd 1980s farce, "The Blues Brothers." It's a send-up of a ...
Love in demand despite never making the playoffs
So what's the big fuss about a player who in six seasons as his team's best player never has played for a team with a .500 record, never has made the playoffs, has averaged missing 20 games per season with injuries and in his ...
