How the Minnesota Timberwolves squandered Kevin Garnett's prime, then lost him

My dad was from minnesota and the timberwolves were the only minnesota team he refused to support at all. i didn’t care about sports so i completely forgot his reasoning other than management, but im pretty sure i found the reason now lol

They would’ve Loss to the Pistons in the Finals that year.

Them Pistons didn’t Play.

kevin mchale being a hack who couldn't build a real winner part one (next time: the 2010s Rockets)

If the T’wolves beat the Lakers they would’ve went to 7 against the Pistons.

Moral of the story: Kevin McHale sucked as GM and ruined the Wolves

brooooo lowkey luka is going down the same path, they just went to the wcf and trying to upgrade they made their team worse and missed the playoffs entirely

It kills me that so many all-time greats stay on teams through their primes that don't put the necessary supporting cast around em, KG, AI, Melo, Barkley, Reggie Miller, Steve Nash, there's just a ton of killers on bad teams, teams that never were able to get that last piece, or teams that ran up against teams like the 3peat Bulls despite being close to peaking.

Man if kg had n team n staff like the spurs he would of been as successful as Tim duncan

People now forget how passive Garnett was sometimes in Minnesota, he didn't really have that killer edge, and by the time he developed that a bit he was already in Boston winning for them

The reason their defense was worse was because olowakandi got hurt, he was a big presence inside in '04

its that guy from that Uncut Gems movie

This hurt my soul

Lies Malik seal before he died we had a team than before washed up player spre an cas we didn't need them true Timberwolves fan

Respect Joe Smith an berry

because David Stern is a jackass, ripping away multiple draft picks and handicapping the franchise for years with one of the best players in the world on it....i know he tried to push KG to a West Coast or East Coast market by doing so. He eventually got his way when KG was traded to Boston.

Oh hai Mark (Madsen) citing ‘The Room’ was brilliant!

That 04 roster wasn't a keeper. Sam and Latrell were aging stars. McHale banked everything on a win-now approach and that was a dumb thing to do when the powerhouse Lakers were around. Not to mention the high level of the Spurs and Kings at the time.

The music really sells the "Collapse" portion of these videos

We may be seeing the new peak of the wolves... #1 seed currently (26-11), #1 defense in the NBA with anthony edwards arguably breaking through into a superstar, with KAT and rudy locking in... this team looking at it right now could have a limitless ceiling, Ant is him and the other two look way more comfortable being lower on the totem pole.

I wonder what his career would've looked like if he had a competent organization

Crazy how the Twolves are the top seed in the West now (2023).

And Boston is eternally grateful

Thanks

And now, the Wolves swept KD and the Phoenix Suns, and are 2-0 against the reigning NBA Champions, the Denver Nuggets led by Anthony Edwards and a team focused on defense.

Who’s here after the Timberwolves made it to the conference finals after 20 Years

20 years later, they’re back!!!

I am happy KG got his ring. He could have won multiple rings had he left Minnesota early.

That was not a big three, stop saying that

When we need that trade as the Celtics fan, for kg, I was hesitant thinking he was in the back nine of his career and at the time Celtics fans were very high on Jefferson and Ryan Gomes. Gomes was Draymond Green, a 6'7 tweener who could play defense rebound had good hands. Jefferson was a classic back to the basket post guy who was a double double every night. I never wanted to get rid of Jefferson, he was a 20 and 10 guy with a lot of upside. I knew once we brought in Allen, that we were going all in. I knew we were only going to have a few years and wished we would have gotten at least two, 2010 I believe was the year that should have taken our second but after that it all fell apart.

At least they got ANT-man now

RIP Eddie Griffin and Flip Saunders

Having potential but never enough of it… Minnesota sports in a nutshell

Here in December 2024 and it’s like I’m looking into the future

It's happening again... after reaching the conference finals, they trade away one of their 3 best players for salary reasons.

The dagger through all of this was Cassel and KG did win a ring together…in Boston 😂

Anthony Edwards might be next

Imagine Kobe and KG…

Folks 4get dat KG was posed ta say Impossible is nothin!! But said what he said n i think dats when KG went ta Nike over Addidas

Oops but dats when he was n Boston

Spreewell was my 1st jersey he was so raw n Oakland n he played da hardest plus his dunks were off da hook!! Dats why i cant c how PJ said put a lil mo mustard on da pass. Spree den went all Oaktown on him n choked him out!! Letta lone comin at Kersey wit da 2x4. Yee

I thought it would be too simplistic to do a 2000 through 2010 LeBron Cavs collapse but this makes me feel like it’s possible

Sam Cassell looks like the base skin for a create a player in 2004

Garnett would be top 5 all time if he played for a well run franchise, still top 15 tho.

"Minnesota blows up a contender after reaching the Western Conference Finals"

You could say the same thing in 2004 and in 2024 with KAT's trade to the Knicks. Some lessons are never learnt.

Has anyone noticed how often Sam Cassell leaving a team correlates with their collapse?

Flip kind of looks like Bill Murray

That was not a powerhouse but a one year team filled with aging players like Sprewell and Cassell. Also, why all the hate for Glenn Taylor in some of these videos? Ever heard of Carl Pohlad, the wealthiest MLB owner in 2001 who was willing to shutter his team for money from MLB. I don't see any videos about Pohlad.

We need an update with this one for 2025.

That was my favorite team , we dont win the Championship because Of injurys. Szcerbiak was extremly Awsome oh man Wishful my Timberwolves to be Champions some day. That was a hughe colapse They need to keep the team toguether.