20 years. It’s been 20 years since the Timberwolves have won a playoff series. Let’s take one last stroll down memory lane before we let go.
After a Game 3 victory in Phoenix, Minnesota Timberwolves Head Coach Chris Finch was asked about the franchise’s history of struggles in the past 30 years. He candidly retorted with a line that resonated with Wolves fans around the world.
It’s been exactly 20 years since Minnesota last won a playoff series. Though it’s easier said than done, we should follow Finch’s example and let go of the decades of trauma. It doesn’t mean that it was all for naught. Even in life, our positive and negative experiences make up who we are now. You can’t have highs if you don’t have lows. And boy have the Timberwolves had more than their fair share of lows.
So before we figuratively erase 20 years of memories, let’s take a look one more time together.
It’s time for Timberwolves fan to let go of 20 years without playoff success…
WE ARE MOVING ON TO THE 2ND ROUND!!! pic.twitter.com/nkCWMGqTIN
— Leo S (@Y0Leo) April 29, 2024
- Sam Cassell hurting his back doing big balls dance before the WCF (2003)
- Clippergeddon: Trading Cassell and unprotected 1st for essentially nothing (2004)
- Kevin McHale fires Flip Saunders, then hires himself (2005)
- Latrell Sprewell’s “I have a family to feed,” quote during contract negotiations (2005)
- Picking Randy Foye over Brandon Roy (2006)
- Marko Jarić entering a game with his jersey on backwards (2006)
- Mark Madsen launching three-pointers to avoid Clippergeddon (2006)
- The KG trade (2007)
- RIP Eddie Griffin (2007)
- Kurt Rambis continually benching Kevin Love (2008)
- Green phallic tree jerseys (2009)
- Stephen Curry (2009)
- David Kahn makes the league change cash considerations rules by selling every pick (2009)
- Anthony Tolliver’s “The Decision Part Deux” (2010)
- Kahn choosing Wes Johnson over DMC because of his biceps (2010)
- The Oleksiy Pecherov aka Stewie era (2010)
- Kahn’s “Manna from Heaven” interview (2011)
- Kahn making Rambis write an essay before firing him (2011)
- Kahn drafting a fake player, Targuy Ngombo (2011)
- Kevin Love’s NUMB#RS campaign (2011)
- Sad Anthony Randolph (2011)
- Michael Beasley rubbing Tolliver’s knee (2012)
- Kevin Love’s knuckle push-ups (2012)
- Ricky Rubio tears his ACL (2012)
- Derrick Williams tweets that he feels like a caged lion (2012)
- The Christ Johnson tenure (2012)
- Martell Webster choosing to dunk a ball at the buzzer, down three (2013)
- Flip admitting drafting Shabazz Muhammad was his last choice (2013)
- Muhammad getting dismissed from the Rookie Symposium due to bringing girls (2013)
- Jerry Zgoda posting a Wolves update while he was naked in a tub (2013)
- Signing a old, broken Brandon Roy (2013)
- Zach Lavine saying “F***” when the Wolves drafted him (2013)
- JJ Barea trying to climb through Hasheem Thabeet’s legs (2013)
- Alan Horton: ED MALLOY!!! (2014)
- Rick Adelman prematurely retires to be with his sick wife (2014)
- RIP Flip Saunders (2016)
- Adreian Payne (RIP) hurting everyone (2016)
- The Timberbulls Era (2017)
- Nemanja Bjelica taking his pants off during free throws (2018)
- Jimmy Butler getting blocked, then a game winner hit on him by LeBron James (2018)
- Jimmy’s “You can’t win without me,” practice (2018)
- The Rachel Nichols interview (2018)
- “General Soreness” pleading his way out of Minnesota (2018)
- Tom Thibobeau getting a technical foul for screaming curse words at KAT (2018)
- Treveon Graham and the Bahama Wolves (2019)
- Gersson Rosas missing on Darius Garland, then picking Jarrett Culver over Coby White (2019)
- Rosas flies D’Angelo Russell around on a helicopter while he signs with the Warriors (2019)
- Karl-Anthony Towns going through hell during the pandemic (2020)
- The Chris Paul “Untucked Jersey” game (2020)
- Cole Anthony hitting a wild game-winning three pointer (2020)
- De’Aaron Fox grabbing own missed free throw tie the game, then win in overtime (2020)
- Dave Benz not realizing what “Shart” meant (2020)
- RIP Tom Hanneman (2020)
- Gersson Rosas’ love affair (2021)
- Living through the D’Lo era (2021)
- Malik Beasley pointing guns at innocent people (2021)
- Ja Morant dancing on Wolves logo in the playoffs (2022)
- Tim Connelly making the “Worst trade of all-time” (2022)
- Kyle Anderson vs Rudy Gobert (2023)
- Jaden McDaniels vs A Wall (2023)
- Dennis Schröder posing in front of the Wolves bench as they win the play-in (2023)
- Anthony Edwards “throws a chair” after losing in the playoffs (2023)
- Edwards gets in hot water with leaked text messages (2023)
- Rudy Gobert getting choked by Draymond Green (2023)
Surely, there are more memories that weren’t listed above. What were some of your favorite ones? Get it all out because it’s time for us to let go.