After months of waiting for the inevitable, the NBA recently announced that the Minnesota Timberwolves, along with seven other cellar dwellers spread across the two conferences, are officially in offseason mode. In the new post-COVID-19 break format, 22 teams (13 Western Conference squads and 9 Eastern Conference squads) will play eight “seeding games” at the Walt Disney World Resort before a potential play-in tournament and playoffs kick off.
Sitting in 14th place in the Western Conference when the season was halted, the Wolves will obviously not travel to Orlando. And, if the league office’s plan plays out smoothly, it could be an unfathomably long wait before we get to see the Wolves lace ‘em up again.