And just like that, it’s over.
The Wolves’ 2024-25 campaign—a season that gave us hope, pain, elation, and about a dozen different spiritual crises—came to a screeching halt in Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals. A blowout. Not a buzzer-beater. Not a heartbreak classic. A straight-up pantsing from the Oklahoma City Thunder. Final score: sadness.
And yet, weirdly, this still goes down as the third-best season in franchise history. For a franchise like Minnesota, that stat says as much about the past as it does the present.
Let’s rewind a bit. The year started with the Karl-Anthony Towns trade—a nuclear shockwave through the fan base.