These are the most exciting times for the Timberwolves since Kevin Garnett led them to the Western Conference finals in 2004. Sports Illustrated wrote this week that Tom Thibodeau was “the coach everyone wanted for the team everyone’s excited about.”
You would have to go back to the 2008-09 Oklahoma City Thunder, which featured a young Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook and finished 23-59, 13th in the Western Conference, to find a young team with as much promise as this Wolves squad. The Thunder reached the playoffs as the No. 8 seed the next season, the Western Conference finals the year after.