0 comments by Derek Hanson on 4/19/2005
A look back at the most disappointing season in franchise history. I can’t believe I’m writing this. It’s only been eighty-one games. Yet I’m writing my eulogy for this Timberwolves season that is for all intents and purposes, dead. There’s still one remaining game this evening against the San Antonio Spurs. It was a date […]
0 comments by Derek Hanson on 4/8/2005
A devastating loss all but crushes the Wolves playoff chances. …Is a heart that beats. As long as this team still has a heart beat, I refuse to give up. I won’t change my stance. I won’t stop believing. Last night hurt. It hurt real bad. In fact, that was probably the most painful loss […]
0 comments by Derek Hanson on 3/18/2005
The T-Wolves need a miraculous winning streak to reach the post-season. We waited sixty-seven games for it – the winning streak that would build momentum, the game that would lend the inspiration, the turning point that would save the season. We waited for it, and it never came. For sixty-seven games we survived on a hope […]
0 comments by Derek Hanson on 3/2/2005
A challenge to the Timberwolves players as the playoffs draw near. NBA Quarterly Report This is it. This is what it’s all come down to. It’s the final stretch – one final shot to prove that this team has what it takes, one chance to prove that this team stands for something other than disappointment. […]
0 comments by Derek Hanson on 2/19/2005
A response to Kevin Garnett’s TNT All-Star Interview. Ticket, It’s me, “One Shot”, DeROK. I don’t know if you remember the day we met or not. I know you meet new people every day and there’s no reason for me to think I really stuck out. It was back in the summer of 2003, the […]
0 comments by Derek Hanson on 1/31/2005
The T-Wolves have a big challenge ahead of them at the season’s mid-point. NBA Mid-Season Report If the Minnesota Timberwolves have learned one thing over the course of this NBA season it’s that it doesn’t take very long to fall down from the top. What they’re in the process of learning right now, is that […]
0 comments by Derek Hanson on 12/30/2004
A challenge for Timberwolves fans as 2005 approaches. I couldn’t pick the Bulls. Even though all the other kids at school were doing it. Even though I knew it meant that I would get to celebrate a championship. I just couldn’t do it. They weren’t a team I could identify with. As the short kid […]
0 comments by Derek Hanson on 12/14/2004
Things are pretty crazy for the Wolves a quarter of the way through the season. NBA Quarterly Update There has never been an NBA season as crazy as this one, and we’re only a quarter of the way through it! We’ve got Shaq in Miami, T-Mac in Houston, and now Vince Carter in New Jersey. […]
0 comments by Derek Hanson on 11/26/2004
Latrell Sprewell leads the Timberwolves to a convincing win. For the first eleven games of the 2004-2005 Timberwolves season, it seemed that all the hype leading up to this year was exactly that – hype. What was supposed to be a euphoric eighty-two game trip to the Finals, was to that point, a total nightmare. […]
0 comments by Derek Hanson on 11/3/2004
The Wolves try to build on their historic 2003-2004 season. 2004 NBA Preview The Timberwolves 2004-2005 season will begin the way it always should have – with the Wolves coming off of an emotional win over the Detroit Pistons. No, last night’s preseason victory could never compare to the triumph that would have been had […]
0 comments by Derek Hanson on 9/30/2004
A tribute to Kevin Garnett’s 10 season in Minnesota. Kevin Garnett 10 Years Video No one could have predicted that when David Stern announced the 5th pick of the 1995 NBA Draft, he was not only ushering in a new era for the Minnesota Timberwolves, but making a declaration that would revolutionize the entire league. […]
0 comments by Derek Hanson on 5/31/2004
The best season in Timberwolves history comes to a close. I never thought that I would be writing this article. The 2003-2004 section of the “The Den” was supposed to finish with an article about the Timberwolves’ first championship. I guess things like an injury to Sam Cassell’s hip, bad officiating, and an unfair date […]
0 comments by Derek Hanson on 5/27/2004
This is our story… If I didn’t care, more than words can say, If I didn’t care, would I feel this way? Those are the first words in the film, The Shawshank Redemption. Those are also very fitting words for any Minnesota Timberwolves fan feeling the pressure of a 3-1 series deficit to the Los […]
0 comments by Derek Hanson on 5/20/2004
The Wolves and the Lakers clash in the Western Conference Finals. If there is one thing that is certain amidst all the surprises of the second round we just witnessed, it’s this: The Los Angeles Lakers are evil. Never before in the history of the NBA, has there been an alliance as unholy as the […]
0 comments by Derek Hanson on 5/18/2004
A preview of the biggest game in Minnesota Timberwolves history. Pat Tillman’s father made the following comment in reference to his son: “A man only has a few times in life when he’s called on to step up and do something, and sometimes you may only have a few seconds to do it. If you […]
