There is a gaping hole in the northeast corner of Target Center, the result of a renovation that has started on the Minnesota Timberwolves' aging arena to update it as much as possible without completely tearing it down and starting from scratch.
After almost a decade-long identity crisis, the major rebuilding of the roster is finally over.
With Karl-Anthony Towns, Andrew Wiggins and Zach LaVine, a core is firmly entrenched that makes one of league's most unsuccessful franchises the subject of envy for its wealth of young talent. Tom Thibodeau has arrived to give the Wolves a top-flight coach to take over their on-the-job education. And they are just plain sick and tired of hearing about the team's 12-year playoff drought.
"It bothers me," Towns said. "It truly bothers me. It's something I don't want to hear anymore. I'm tired of hearing about a drought around here. That's something that annoys me and bothers me. What I can do to control that is come in every day, work tremendously hard and do everything possible to help us be the winning team we see ourselves being."
The Timberwolves won 29 games a year ago, a 13-game improvement from the previous season. They will likely need at least 12 more wins this season to be in the mix in the competitive Western Conference.
Despite starting three players who are 21 or younger, their optimism is high.
"There are a lot of guys on the team that have never been in the playoffs and they've been here for a long time," Wiggins said. "We haven't seen it. Now we finally have the perfect pieces to get there, the perfect opportunity this year. We're very confident. We're overly excited. We just want to work hard to get there."
Source: US News
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