Timberwolves 141, Spurs 124: A Long Awaited Exhale

The Minnesota Timberwolves have been, for large chunks of this season, unable to get out of their own way. There were losses against bad teams, as there admittedly are for every team, but there was a far more irritating trend. While they wouldn’t lose every game against poor competition, they certainly failed to make it an easy game.

Tonight, if even for one night, that wasn’t true. The Wolves won a wire-to-wire domination in which they led the whole way through against a tanking San Antonio Spurs team. It might not have been perfect, but it was appreciated.

And that’s worth celebrating.

The game was headlined by a Rudy Gobert return, which led to the re-benching of Naz Reid who has been quite…