For the past two years, covering the Timberwolves was my side hustle. As of today, it’s my site.
Welcome to the new TWolves Blog.
Some of you know this URL from a previous life. It’s been kicking around Wolves internet for two decades, and I wasn’t about to let it die. Everything that was ever published here is still here; the old links still work. But starting today, this is something different: an independent site, run by people who cover this team because we can’t help it, with no network above us deciding whether Wolves coverage is worth the budget line.
What you’ll get here:
A preview before every game and an honest recap the morning after. Analysis that respects your intelligence. The Daily Howl, a morning brief that reads everything so you don’t have to. Wolvespedia, our growing encyclopedia of franchise history: the glory, the scars, and the Joe Smith scandal. And full Lynx coverage, because the best basketball team in this state for most of the last decade deserves better than a courtesy paragraph.
And the thing I care about most: the comments.
If you’ve spent time in a great game thread, you know what it’s like: the rec that says “we all saw it,” the running bit that outlives the season, the 2 a.m. overtime delirium with three hundred strangers who feel like neighbors. That experience is the whole reason this site exists. We built our own comments platform from scratch: game threads for every game, recs, replies, the z-key (if you know you know). It’s ours. Nobody can take it away, sunset it, or “streamline” it into a Facebook plugin.
The rules are simple: be funny, be smart, be wrong loudly and own it. Don’t be a bigot. That’s about it.
We’re starting small. It’s just me and a couple of writers you’ll meet soon, and we’ll be building from there. The schedule just dropped, the roster got a lot more interesting this summer, and the Lynx are the best team in the WNBA. There has never been a better time to have a place to talk about Minnesota basketball.
Pull up a seat.
— Derek
