Everything Wolves and Lynx worth your time today, in one place. Tim Connelly spent an hour and change on a brewery stage making the case for this roster, and the Lynx can put the No. 1 seed away tonight in San Francisco.
The Links
- ClutchPoints: Tim Connelly asks ‘why not’ Timberwolves for an NBA title — “Why not us?” plus the qualifier: only five or six rooms in the league think they have a real chance, and Connelly counts Minnesota as one.
- Heavy: Timberwolves in talks with ‘1 or 2’ intriguing free agents — Alder Almo on the actual news from the same sitdown: Connelly concedes the depth chart is “a little thin” at power forward, with minimum money to fix it.
- Dunking With Wolves: Timberwolves fans needed to hear this from Tim Connelly as he enters a contract year — Ethan Kinney on the line that mattered most locally: “We’re super locked in in Minnesota.”
- Lynx: Olivia Miles named Western Conference Player of the Week — 18.0 points, 7.5 assists and 4.5 rebounds for the week of Aug. 10-16, her second of the season.
- TWolves Blog: Lynx at Valkyries preview, the seed on the line at Chase Center — Katie’s preview: what a 2-0 season series, a four-game winning streak and the league’s stingiest defense add up to tonight.
- Valkyries: Gameday preview, Valkyries vs. Lynx — Golden State (25-9) arrives on a six-game run and off a playoff-clinching 78-70 win over Dallas, with the WNBA’s best defensive rating at 101.4.
- Dunking With Wolves: Timberwolves can look to the Knicks’ Mikal Bridges trade to see how all-in works — Kenny Kluska on the every-tradable-first price of LaMelo Ball and the precedent New York just set with it.
Listen & Watch
- Locked On Wolves: How creative will Chris Finch need to be with the power forward spot? — Aug. 19, 30 minutes, Ben Beecken on what’s left in free agency.
- The Jon Krawczynski Show: Tim Connelly Live! — Aug. 17, 1 hour 18 minutes, the Forgotten Star Brewery show every quote above came from.
The Slate
- Lynx at Golden State Valkyries: Wednesday, Aug. 19, 9:00 PM CT, USA Network.
- Lynx at Washington Mystics: Friday, Aug. 21, 6:30 PM CT, ION.
- Lynx vs. Golden State Valkyries: Monday, Aug. 24, 7:00 PM CT, Target Center, USA Network.
