Timberwolves notes: Nathan Knight is the next man up among the bigs

Timberwolves forward Nathan Knight: “I’m just coming in and just staying true to myself.”It was about this time last year that the Timberwolves needed to turn to Nathan Knight off their bench. With a team down several players because of COVID-19, the Wolves turned to Knight, who was then on a two-way contract.

He helped them get through a two-week period as the rest of the team healed.

This season, Knight, a forward/center, is buried even deeper on the depth chart because the Wolves have Karl-Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert to play center and then Naz Reid to fill in as their backup.

But in Sunday's game against the Bulls, Towns was already out, Gobert was nursing a sprained ankle. Then Reid was…