The NBA recently released its national television schedule for the opening week of the 2018-19 regular season as well as its lineup of the five Christmas day games on ESPN and three Martin Luther King Jr. Day games on TNT and the Minnesota Timberwolves are nowhere to be seen.
In fact, the Timberwolves have only 13 nationally televised games all season as opposed to 25 a year ago. Perhaps during the insufferable Kevin Love 38-win seasons just a short while ago, 13 prime-time games might have been a pleasant surprise. But last year the Wolves seemed to have an unfamiliar buzz surrounding them.