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"shape to play in Europe the next season. He was buried in Northwood Cemetery in Philadelphia. At the time of his death he had a three-year-old daughter named Amaree. Eddie Griffin (basketball) Eddie Jamaal Griffin (May 30, 1982 – August 17, 2007) was an American professional basketball player from Philadelphia. He last played for the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves, who waived him on March 13, 2007. Months later, he was killed in a car crash. After a standout career at Roman Catholic High School in Philadelphia in which he was named ""Parade Magazine""'s National Player of the Year, he competed in"
"Taj Gibson Taj Jami Gibson (born June 24, 1985) is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Gibson played three seasons of collegiate basketball for the USC Trojans and was selected 26th overall by the Chicago Bulls in the 2009 NBA draft. The power forward played mostly a sixth man role off the bench for the Bulls before being traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2017, later signing with the Minnesota Timberwolves the same year. Gibson was born on June 24, 1985, in Brooklyn, New York City. He attended P.S. 67"
"in Minneapolis. The Lynx have won four WNBA Championships, doing so during the 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017 season. In 2005, the Lynx drafted Seimone Augustus from Louisiana State University. She quickly became the foundation of the franchise and has been the focus of many WNBA advertisements. Maya Moore, drafted first overall in 2011, has contributed in great part to the Lynx's success, winning an MVP award in 2014. The Minnesota Timberwolves are an NBA team founded in 1989 and play their home games at Target Center in Minneapolis. The ""Wolves"", as they are called by fans, have yet to"
"blocks in a 121–104 win over the Charlotte Hornets. Karl-Anthony Towns Karl-Anthony Towns Jr. (born November 15, 1995) is a Dominican-American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats. Towns was named to the Dominican Republic national team as a 16-year-old. He was selected with the first overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves, and went on to be named NBA Rookie of the Year for the 2015–16 season. Towns was born in Edison, New Jersey to an African American father, Karl Towns"
"was in graduate school at Salem State, but called it off a month or two before the wedding. Tom Thibodeau Thomas Joseph Thibodeau Jr. ( ; born January 17, 1958) is an American basketball coach who is head coach and president of basketball operations of the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Since June 2013, he has served as an assistant coach for the USA Basketball Men's National Team. As a defensive coach, he helped the Houston Rockets rank among the Top 5 in the league in scoring defense and field goal percentage defense from 2004 to 2007,"
"selected one of the ""GQ"" top ten new restaurants and one of ""Eater""'s twelve best new restaurants of 2017. ""Esquire"" put Hai Hai on its list of America's best restaurants in 2018, and Grand Café and Marco Zappia of Martina both earned special mentions. Minneapolis is home to four professional sports teams. The Minnesota Timberwolves brought NBA basketball back to Minneapolis in 1989, followed by the Minnesota Lynx in 1999. Both basketball teams play in the Target Center. In recent years, the Lynx have been the most successful sports team in the city and a dominant force in the WNBA,"
"points in a 124–118 win over the Orlando Magic. On February 15, 2018, Gibson scored a season-high 28 points against the Los Angeles Lakers. Taj Gibson Taj Jami Gibson (born June 24, 1985) is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Gibson played three seasons of collegiate basketball for the USC Trojans and was selected 26th overall by the Chicago Bulls in the 2009 NBA draft. The power forward played mostly a sixth man role off the bench for the Bulls before being traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2017, later"
"Tom Thibodeau Thomas Joseph Thibodeau Jr. ( ; born January 17, 1958) is an American basketball coach who is head coach and president of basketball operations of the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Since June 2013, he has served as an assistant coach for the USA Basketball Men's National Team. As a defensive coach, he helped the Houston Rockets rank among the Top 5 in the league in scoring defense and field goal percentage defense from 2004 to 2007, and he has helped his team finish in the league's Top 10 in team defense 15 times. He"
"expires, the team has to sign the player for the remainder of the season. Note An NBA team can assign rookies or second year players to its affiliated D-League team. A player can be assigned to the Development League only three times in a season. Note Iowa Wolves The Iowa Wolves are an American professional basketball team based in Des Moines, Iowa. It is owned by and affiliated with the Minnesota Timberwolves as of the 2017–18 season. They play in the Western Conference in the NBA G League, a minor league basketball organization run by the National Basketball Association (NBA)."
"$50 million or more from undisclosed sources based on projected revenues from the un-built arena in New Orleans. Also, the league filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis seeking an injunction against any transfer of the team from Minnesota. On June 21, 1994, the league officially denied sale of the franchise to Top Rank resulting in the Timberwolves remaining in Minneapolis. On June 28, 1994, Top Rank would file a counter-suit in Louisiana Civil District Court. The suit sought to have ownership fulfill their contractual obligation to sell the team to Top Rank. The following day, federal district"
"Karl-Anthony Towns Karl-Anthony Towns Jr. (born November 15, 1995) is a Dominican-American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats. Towns was named to the Dominican Republic national team as a 16-year-old. He was selected with the first overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves, and went on to be named NBA Rookie of the Year for the 2015–16 season. Towns was born in Edison, New Jersey to an African American father, Karl Towns Sr., and a Dominican mother, Jacqueline Cruz. He grew"
"Target Center Target Center is a multi-purpose arena located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Target Center hosts major family shows, concerts, sporting events, graduations and private events. Target Corporation is the original and current naming rights partner of the arena. Seating over 20,000 for a concert, it contains 702 club seats and 68 suites. The arena is home to the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves and the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx. The facility has also hosted the LFL's Minnesota Valkyrie, the RHI's Minnesota Arctic Blast and the Arena Football League's Minnesota Fighting Pike in the past. Original Timberwolves owners Marv Wolfenson and Harvey Ratner"
"that of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves, with ""Minnesota"" replaced with ""Maine"" and ""Hockey"" underneath. On September 17, the NSHL suspended the Timberwolves operations indefinitely for failure to meet financial obligations prior to ever playing a game. The Moose played home games at the Bank of Maine Ice Vault located in Hallowell, Maine, which opened in 2012. They previously played in the Kennebec Ice Arena, which was originally built in 1973 on the same site. It was destroyed after a roof collapse on March 2, 2011. Junior ice hockey is the predominate supplier of collegiate, major junior, and professional ice hockey."
"off 1-8 shooting in a 111-81 loss. Jared Terrell Jared Terrell (born February 10, 1995) is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Iowa Wolves of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for Rhode Island. Terrell is a native of Weymouth, Massachusetts and has two brothers, Royce II and Jordan. He began his high school career at Weymouth High School, where he averaged 11 points a game. He made big strides as a sophomore and posted 16 points per game and helped Weymouth to"
"basketball operations and has the final say in basketball matters. Scott Layden Scott Layden (born 1959 in Brooklyn, New York) is the general manager of the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is the son of former coach and general manager of the Jazz, Frank Layden, and a graduate of Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania where he studied Business and Sports Management. He also held various coaching jobs for the Jazz during the 1980s and '90s when his father was the head coach for the team. in 1981-82 he worked as a talent scout/assistant coach; he"
"The Timberwolves, led by Tony Campbell with 23.2 ppg, went on to a 22–60 record, finishing in sixth place in the Midwest Division. Playing in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, the expansion Timberwolves set an NBA record by drawing over 1 million fans to their home games. This included a crowd of 49,551 on April 17, 1990, which saw the Timberwolves lose to the Denver Nuggets 99–88 in the final home game of the season. The next season, the team moved into their permanent home, the Target Center, and improved somewhat, finishing 29–53. However, they fired their head coach, Bill"
"James Nunnally James William Nunnally (born July 14, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the University of California, Santa Barbara. Nunnally attended Weston Ranch High School in Stockton, California. As a sophomore, he averaged 10 points and 8.4 rebounds per game. As a junior, he averaged 19 points, 6.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game as he was named Stockton Record Player of the Year, All-State, All-CIF Sac-Joaquin Section and All-Valley Oak League. In November 2007, Nunnally signed a National Letter of Intent to play"
"the Minnesota Timberwolves. Anthony Tolliver Anthony Lamar Tolliver (born June 1, 1985) is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Creighton University. Tolliver committed to Creighton in the fall of 2002. He was one of four players from his Kickapoo High School team to play Division I basketball; the team ended his senior season of 2002–03 ranked 12th by the USA Today and as the Missouri Class 5A State Champions. At Creighton, Tolliver played in a reserve role during his freshman season behind veterans Brody Deren, Mike"
"Jared Terrell Jared Terrell (born February 10, 1995) is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Iowa Wolves of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for Rhode Island. Terrell is a native of Weymouth, Massachusetts and has two brothers, Royce II and Jordan. He began his high school career at Weymouth High School, where he averaged 11 points a game. He made big strides as a sophomore and posted 16 points per game and helped Weymouth to a Bay State Conference Carey Division title"
"Anthony Tolliver Anthony Lamar Tolliver (born June 1, 1985) is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Creighton University. Tolliver committed to Creighton in the fall of 2002. He was one of four players from his Kickapoo High School team to play Division I basketball; the team ended his senior season of 2002–03 ranked 12th by the USA Today and as the Missouri Class 5A State Champions. At Creighton, Tolliver played in a reserve role during his freshman season behind veterans Brody Deren, Mike Grimes and Joe"
"C. J. Williams Wendell ""C. J."" Williams Jr. (born February 6, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Iowa Wolves of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for North Carolina State. Williams attended Jack Britt High School under Ike Walker. As a senior, he averaged 15.7 points, 7.0 rebounds and 3.5 assists, leading his team to a 27-5 record and the state 4-A semifinals. For that, he was named the Cape Fear Region Player of the Year by the Fayetteville Observer and"
"22, 2018, the Minnesota Wild would extend their contract 2023. The affiliation between the two Wild franchises is the first of two between the two cities as the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association and the Iowa Wolves of the NBA G League also share an affiliation. Iowa Wild The Iowa Wild are an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League, that began play from the 2013–14 season. The team plays at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa, as the AHL affiliate of the NHL's Minnesota Wild. Minnesota Sports and Entertainment is the parent company of both"
"John Lucas III John Harding Lucas III (born November 21, 1982) is an American retired professional basketball player who currently serves as a player development coach for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for Baylor and Oklahoma State. Born in Washington, D.C. to former NBA player and coach John Lucas II and his wife DeEdgra, Lucas lived in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania for a time as a youth. Lucas was the starting point guard on the Bellaire High School basketball team and played alongside fellow future NBA players Emeka Okafor and Lawrence Roberts. Lucas has a"
"current NBA cities Oklahoma City and New Orleans. It has previously hosted the Kansas City Kings from 1972 to 1985 until they moved to Sacramento. As does Pittsburgh, it has a more recently built arena, the Sprint Center, that has hosted Big 12 and both the men's and women's NCAA tournaments. The city is also home to the College Basketball Hall of Fame. The city of Vancouver previously hosted an NBA team (the Vancouver Grizzlies) before it relocated to Memphis, Tennessee in 2001 and became the Memphis Grizzlies. The city has a solid fan base and the city already has"
"loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference Semifinals. Shortly thereafter, on May 28, 2015, the Bulls fired Thibodeau. On April 20, 2016, it was announced that the Minnesota Timberwolves had hired Thibodeau as head coach and president of basketball operations. The Timberwolves had spent the better part of a decade in the NBA wilderness, having not made the playoffs since 2004. In his second season, the Timberwolves had their first winning season since 2005, and made their first playoff appearance in 14 years. He has been called ""one of the best coaches in the NBA"", sometimes ranking among"
"University, playing under Rick Pitino at Boston. Teague has four siblings, including Marquis, who played point guard for the Kentucky Wildcats before being drafted by the Chicago Bulls in 2012. Jeff Teague (basketball) Jeffrey Demarco Teague (born June 10, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Teague played college basketball for Wake Forest University before being selected 19th overall in the 2009 NBA draft by the Atlanta Hawks. He was named an NBA All-Star in 2015 for the first time. Teague attended Pike High School in Indianapolis, Indiana where as"
"Timberwolves in 2017 and were renamed the Iowa Wolves to reflect the new ownership. Two other sports teams play in suburban Des Moines. The Des Moines Buccaneers of the United States Hockey League play at Buccaneer Arena in Urbandale, and the Des Moines Menace soccer team play at Valley Stadium in West Des Moines. Des Moines is home to the Bulldogs of Drake University, an NCAA Division I member of the Missouri Valley Conference, primarily playing northwest of downtown at the on-campus Drake Stadium and Knapp Center. Drake Stadium is home to the famed Drake Relays each April. In addition"
"Scott Layden Scott Layden (born 1959 in Brooklyn, New York) is the general manager of the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is the son of former coach and general manager of the Jazz, Frank Layden, and a graduate of Saint Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania where he studied Business and Sports Management. He also held various coaching jobs for the Jazz during the 1980s and '90s when his father was the head coach for the team. in 1981-82 he worked as a talent scout/assistant coach; he was promoted to assistant coach prior to the 1982 season,"
"Scott Skiles, Jerry Reynolds, Jim Farmer, Keith Lee and Frank Johnson. However, Farmer, Lee and Johnson never played for the Magic. Nine players from the expansion draft joined the Magic for their inaugural season, but only two played more than three seasons for the team. Catledge played four seasons with the Magic until his NBA career ended in 1993. Skiles played five seasons with the Magic. The Timberwolves were formed and owned by a group headed by Marv Wolfenson and Harvey Ratner. The Timberwolves were the second NBA franchise to play in Minnesota, following the Minneapolis Lakers, which moved to"
"million with the intention of relocating it to New Orleans. The purchase occurred following an agreement between Top Rank and Timberwolves ownership that allowed Top Rank to purchase the franchise if no local ownership groups were found by May 20, 1994. On June 6, 1994, Top Rank officially filed the paperwork to the NBA seeking to relocate the Timberwolves to New Orleans for the 1994–95 NBA season. The filings also identified Fred Hofheinz as the sole Top Rank stockholder, with Houston lawyer John O'Quinn and stockbroker Robert Higley serving as the team's major partners. With the timber wolf being a"
"Amile Jefferson Amile O. Jefferson (born May 7, 1993) is an American professional basketball player for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Lakeland Magic of the NBA G League. Jefferson is a three-time former Duke captain on the Blue Devils' 2014–15 NCAA Championship team. After graduating with his Masters degree from Duke University in 2017, Amile Jefferson signed with the Minnesota Timberwolves for summer league, which ran from July 7–17, 2018. On September 18, 2017, Jefferson signed with the Minnesota Timberwolves. He was waived on October 14 as one of the"
"Minnesota Lynx The Minnesota Lynx are a professional basketball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The team won the WNBA title in 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017. Founded prior to the 1999 season, the team is owned by Glen Taylor, who is also the majority owner of the Lynx' NBA counterpart, the Minnesota Timberwolves. The franchise has been home to many high-quality players such as Katie Smith, explosive small-forward Seimone Augustus, native Minnesotan Lindsay Whalen, Connecticut standout Maya Moore, forward Rebekkah Brunson, and center Sylvia Fowles. The Lynx have"
"signed Williams to a two-way contract with the Iowa Wolves of the NBA G League. Williams played with the senior United States national team at the 2017 FIBA AmeriCup, where he won a gold medal. Williams' father played baseball in college at Florida A&M. Williams majored in Business Administration - Human Resources. C. J. Williams Wendell ""C. J."" Williams Jr. (born February 6, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Iowa Wolves of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for North Carolina"