The Minnesota Timberwolves are signing forward T.J. Warren for the remainder of the season. Warren recently finished a second 10-day contract with the Timberwolves.
In seven games with Minnesota, Warren averaged 4.1 points over seven games.
The Minnesota Timberwolves are signing forward T.J. Warren for the remainder of the season. Warren recently finished a second 10-day contract with the Timberwolves.
In seven games with Minnesota, Warren averaged 4.1 points over seven games.
Rudy Gobert has met the NBA's 65-game threshold to became eligible for postseason awards, reported Bobby Marks of ESPN.
Gobert is a three-time Defensive Player of the Year award winner.
Jayson Tatum also recently became eligible for postseason awards.
In a simple message posted on Instagram, Nemanja Bjelica announced his retirement from playing basketball.
"20 years...Thank you basketball" was Bjelica's message on Saturday afternoon.
The 6-foot-10 forward played for seven seasons in the NBA. Bjelica started his NBA career with the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2015, before moving to the Sacramento Kings in 2018. At the 2021 trade deadline, Bjelica was dealt to the Miami Heat. He then signed with the Golden State Warriors, and helped the team win the 2022 NBA Finals.
Following that NBA title, Bjelica returned to Fenerbahce in Turkey. He had previously played for the Turkish club before coming to the NBA.
Bjelica also played professionally for clubs in his native Serbia and in Spain during his 20-year professional career. The 35-year-old had also suited up for the Serbian national team for several EuroBasket and World Cup competitions, as well as Olympic qualifiers.
An employee of the Minnesota Timberwolves was fired, arrested and charged with felony third-degree burglary for allegedly stealing thousands of internal files, including "strategic NBA information," from a team executive, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday and obtained by ESPN.
The Timberwolves told ESPN that they were aware of the allegations and had no further comment at this time. A source told ESPN that the team would not pursue criminal charges.
Somak Sarkar, 33, who previously served as a coaching analyst for the Timberwolves, is in custody and faces a court hearing Thursday afternoon in Minnesota.
On Feb. 2, the complaint says, Sachin Gupta, a Timberwolves executive vice president who oversees the team's analytics department, left a hard drive connected to a laptop in his office at the Target Center in downtown Minneapolis.
That drive contained Gupta's personal financial information as well as private information for the team, including employment and player contracts.
Another employee was able to recover the hard drive from Sarkar, and the team determined, after a forensic analysis, that he had accessed more than 5,000 files and downloaded them onto another device.
Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez are ready to close their purchase of the Minnesota Timberwolves after reaching a deal with Dyal Capital Partners to finance the deal.
Dyal Capital Partners joins as a pre-approved investor in the group, which gives Lore and Rodriguez the final financial backing necessary to complete the transaction.
Lore and Rodriguez have submitted the signed financial documentation to the NBA to complete the acquisition.
The Carlyle Group has dropped out of financing the next payment by Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez to purchase the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Carlyle had been in talks with the NBA for several months about the possible investment, but were unable to agree to a structure that would be approved by the league.
Glen Taylor said on Tuesday there’s been issues surrounding $300 million of financing for the latest funding round. The deadline for the payment, which will give the duo another 40% bringing them to 80% of the team, is due at the end of March.
“They (Lore and A-Rod) had an equity group that was going to come in and put in $300 million, and that equity group has either withdrawn or the NBA has denied them,” Taylor told reporters. “They have to go out and find new revenue. That I do know.”
Lore and Rodriguez agreed to purchase the Timberwolves for $1.5 billion.
An NBA spokesman said in a statement that the league “did not deny Carlyle’s proposed investment.”
Anthony Edwards dislocated his finger on a dunk over John Collins, he said in a postgame interview with Bally Sports North.
The dunk occurred in the third quarter with the Timberwolves trailing by a point.
Edwards returned to the game to shoot free throws with his fingers taped up.
Collins suffered a head contusion on the play, according to league sources.
Collins did not have a concussion.
The Minnesota Timberwolves are signing forward T.J. Warren to a second 10-day contract. Warren's first 10-day deal with Minnesota expired on Saturday.
Warren appeared in four games for the Wolves on his first 10-day deal. The veteran forward averaged 4.8 points in 16 minutes per game. Warren was pressed into immediate rotation minutes, with Karl-Anthony Towns out due to surgery for a partially torn meniscus.
The Minnesota Timberwolves announced that Karl-Anthony Towns underwent successful surgery on a Left Knee Lateral Meniscus Tear.
Towns will be re-evaluated in four weeks and further updates on his progress will be provided when available.
Towns is widely expected to return during the early part of the playoffs.
The NBA announced they have fined Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert $100,000 for inappropriate gestures towards game officials. During the Timberwolves loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Gobert made the "money" gesture to the officials after fouling out of the game. Gobert received a technical foul for the gestures and complaints towards the officials.
The league said Gobert's past history of criticizing game officials factored into the size of the fine.