Wolves' newly acquired star needs to be a fixture, not just a fit.
JIM SOUHAN
Saturday was a very Wolfy night.
The Timberwolves lured one of the biggest crowds of the season to Target Center to see a guy who has never played for the Wolves not play for the Wolves.
The introduction of D'Angelo Russell was limited to a short video and a short speech at center court, with Russell pumping up the crowd, then taking a seat.
The Wolves' new regime immediately identified Russell as the player they wanted last spring, gave him a helicopter ride and a sales pitch to land him last summer, lost him, traded away a seemingly untradeable player to finally land him, and feted him at an improbably celebratory gathering in downtown Minneapolis.