Everyone, myself included was excited to see Brandon Roy return to basketball after being forced to retire due to knee issues. However Roy has been playing like a shell of his former self, averaging 5.8 ppg and 4.6 apg in his first five games with the Minnesota Timberwolves. And now his knee issues are returning. Read more after the jump. Shay Marie
NBA: Civil Rights Activists Question Timberwolves’ White Roster
The Minnesota Timberwolves and the skin color of many of their players has some questioning the front-office’s true motives when it comes to constructing the roster. GameTimeGirl
NBA: U.S. Tallest Man Gets $25K Custom Sneakers From Reebok & a Special Suite to Watch the Timberwolves
Basketball coaches normally salivate at the idea of having a player over seven-foot tall. The bigger the better, right? Not for 7-foot-8 Igor Vovkovinskiy, the tallest man in America. “I tried basketball,” Vovkovinskiy told Timberwolves.com. “But after 5th or 6th grade, nobody could make shoes for me. I had to stop playing.” Read more after the jump. Shay Marie x Sabrina B.
NBA: Kevin Love Broke His Hand While Doing ‘Knuckle Push-ups’
When you’re a professional basketball player there’s just certain things you can’t do like playing a pickup game in the hood right as the season is set to start. Injuries are bad for any player but it’s worse when they occur off the court because they’re usually preventable. Kevin Love a major factor for the Minnesota Timberwolves apparently broke his hand while doing knuckle pushups. Read more after the jump. Shay Marie x Sabrina B.
(Photo) NBA: Derrick Rose, Russell Westbrook & Kevin Love Train Together in LA
The countdown is on till the beginning of the NBA season and each player is getting prepared. Bulls Derrick Rose, Thunder’s Russell Westbrook and the Timberwolves Kevin Love all trained together in Los Angeles as they did last year. They’re all prized pupils of trainer Rob McClanaghan and it’s all smiles for now. Check out the pic after the jump. Shay Marie x Sabrina B.
