MILWAUKEE – When the Timberwolves played their final preseason game at Milwaukee a season ago, Jimmy Butler had made his now infamous grand entrance to the season two days prior, showing up at his first practice, taking on the starters with the third string, cursing out anybody within earshot and going on ESPN to tell everyone all about it.
That cast a pall over anything the Wolves tried to accomplish early in the season, including that game in Milwaukee, where the Bucks ran them off the floor in a 22-point victory. That week was a harbinger of things to come for the Wolves — chaos off the court, more losses than wins on it.