This game was the perfect storm for Minnesota Timberwolves embarrassment.
After a Friday night loss that can be accredited to a senseless technical foul on Rudy Gobert at the end of regulation (and subsequent $100,000 fine announced on Sunday), the Wolves were already trending in the wrong direction for Monday morning sports talk show ledes. Minnesota would have one chance on Sunday night, on primetime television no less, to rewrite the predetermined headlines if they could takedown the Los Angeles Lakers.
Then the news dropped that Rudy Gobert and Karl-Anthony Towns’ backup, Kyle Anderson, would be ruled out prior to tipoff.