Jamal Crawford, on his way back home to Seattle for a few days, stressed the positive after the Wolves' victory over Los Angeles on Thursday night. One locker over, Jimmy Butler, about to board a plane to Los Angeles for this weekend's All-Star Game, took a different path, stressing what the Wolves had not done so far.
Both were right.
First: Crawford, after one of his best games of the season, having sparked the lethargic Wolves to a new gear in the team's fourth-quarter comeback: "I think if you had told us coming into the season that, at the All-Star break, we'd be third in the West, we'd have signed up for it.