Minnesota Timberwolves (NBA Today (Mankato, Minn.).) [Hardcover]

John Nichols (Author), Richard Rambeck (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1998 | Age Level: 8 and up | Series: NBA Today (Mankato, Minn.).

Describes the background and history of the Minnesota Timberwolves pro basketball team.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Creative Co (Sd) (June 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0886828813
• ISBN-13: 978-0886828813
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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3.0 out of 5 stars A history of the Timberwolves (seasons one and two), April 23, 2002

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Minnesota Timberwolves (NBA Today (Mankato, Minn.).) (Hardcover)

You know, either there just is not the sense of history with a basketball team that there is with a baseball team, or the Minnesota Timberwolves just have a history that no one really wants to remember before the arrival of Kevin Garnett. Richard Rambeck, who wrote a history of the Minnesota Twins, does the same honor for the T-Wolves. He covers the history of professional basketball in the Twin Cities, which allows a few comments on George Mikan and the glory days of the Minneapolis Lakers, but then the Timberwovles take the court in 1990. But all this book really talks about are the first two seasons of an expansion franchise, when the team lost a ton of games and the roster changed pretty much every other week. That means we are talking about forgettable players like Felton Spencer and Tod Murphy, or those who had success with other teams, such as Luc Longley and Tony Campbell.

However, the fault, dear fans, is not in Rambeck's writing but in the stars, or lack of them, that afflicted Minnesota for most of that decade. This is a concise history of the team's first two years of existence, which, of course, if now woefully out of date. I am sure the only reason they bothered was because this was part of a series for all the NBA teams. Maybe if we were talking the Lakers or the Celtics, teams with rich, storied histories, things would be different. But I think most fans would be happy to forget there were T-Wolves before Kevin Garnett showed up in the fall of 1995. Now, if they could just get past the first round of the playoffs.