This season has been marked as the beginning of the Wolves progression towards a fate better than the past decade, maybe even the path to becoming a contender. For the first time in years, Minnesota is regarded as a fringe playoff team. They are a team garnering national media attention, and a team that may actually justify putting some butts in the seats at Target Center.
If this progression from contender for the number one pick in the draft to contender for the number one seed in the West ever comes to fruition, there will have been many steps taken along the way.