Hang out and chat tonight as you wish. Game on League Pass and through other means. Hopefully the Wolves can bounce back tonight and turn the ball over fewer than 400 times. Wes4MVP.

Wouldn't it be so much easier to like the Jeremy Lin saga if it didn't involve the Knicks? I think so.

(Dirk Nowitzki and Kevin Love in 2004)

Can we sweep the Mavs tonight? Tough contest. Dirk is back with a vengeance, but so is our very own 2-time All-Star and 3-point participant: Kevin Love. Good shooting = good playing. Get off to a good start. Unleash the Pek. Go Wolves. 

Due to popular demand from our TWolves Blog Forum members, once again here is the Live Chat Game Thread for Wednesday night's back-to-back game in Memphis, vs the Grizzlies.

Don't look now, but we CURRENTLY HAVE A BETTER RECORD THAN THE GRIZZLIES!  And we are actually ABOVE .500.  Holy friggen crap, who would have ever imagined that?!?

Can we pull off yet another victory without Kevin Love?  Or will perennial T-Wolves killer Rudy Gay be too much for us to handle?  Tune in tomorrow night, and come join us in the comments or TWB Forums to find out!

Due to popular demand from our TWolves Blog Forum members, once again here is the Game Thread for Tuesday night's game at Target Center. 

Can we defeat the 8-15 Sacramento Kings, without Kevin Love suiting up for the Wolves?  I have a scary feeling that DeMarcus Cousins and/or Jason Thompson run wild on us.  Hopefully Big Pecker can slow them down... somehow.

Come join us in the comments for game chatting and more!

Oh, and we are without this man, tonight:

Due to popular demand from our TWolves Blog Forum members, we'll try to get Live Chat Game Threads up here on the front page of TWB from now on.  Here's the first one, for tomorrow night's game vs the 13-10 Rockets at Target Center.

Can we pull it off?  Coming off the epicly clutch thriller win vs the Nyets, I really hope we don't have a "let down" against the Rockets.  We can beat them again, I know it. 

Onward and upward... playoffs in 2012 baby!

Burke Nixon (sounds like a name of a future mid-1st round draft pick) of Dear Dikembe was kind enough to share a link with us to his open letter to Ricky Rubio. His blog is very creative and is operated under the concept of open letters to players, GM's and the like. Everyone loves open letters! 

Here is a link to the letter.

A brief excerpt (but click above to read the real thing) and read/comment on his blog!

Dear Ricky Rubio,

First of all, I'm not gonna worry about the language barrier here. You speak decent English, judging from this strange clip I saw on YouTube where you get interviewed by Drew Gooden (?) on what appears to be the set of a fake news show while wearing some sort of sweater that only a Euro could pull off. And anyway, the subject I wanna talk to you about knows no language barriers. I'm talking about delight, Ricky. Or we might refer to a related term: beauty. You know as well as anyone that the most consistently delightful, purely beautiful action in basketball is a nice pass. When people fall back on that old metaphor of basketball-as-jazz, they're not thinking of dunks or blocks or Carmelo holding the ball for almost the entire shot clock and then taking a jumper. They're thinking of nice passes. There’s nothing better than a nice pass, nothing more delightful than watching a great PG improvise beauty. And ever since news came across the Atlantic about a Spanish kid playing pro ball in Europe at the age when we get driver's licenses in the States, we'd heard that you, my friend, were a purveyor of nice passes.

Since joining the Timberwolves, David Kahn has had a mixed history with player personnel decisions.  Kahn's moves have been a lot like going to a hole in the wall deli in some out of state destination.  You never know what you're going to get, and that diner you found in Cincinnati with the kickass Chili has no positive affect on the crappy tuna sandwich you just choked down in Tulsa.  In other words, past performance seems to have little, if anything, to do with future results.

Let's take a look:

Foye and Mike Miller for #5 Draft Pick.  Pick unexpectedly turns out to be Rubio.  ...You sit down at a diner in the middle of rural Arkansas.  You ran out of gas and are starving and only have $11.47 to your name.  You order "The Special" not knowing what it is, because it costs $5.99- enough to tip and buy gas to get to civilization.  "The Special" turns out to be the most delicious pit barbecue pork sandwich you've ever had, and comes with bottomless sweet tea.  You have hit the jackpot at the most unexpected of times and the most unexpected of places, and you paid less than you should have.

Passing up Steph Curry and drafting Jonny Flynn right after Rubio.  ...You look at the deserts, see a very tasty-looking apple pie, but you decide to get cute and order the creme brulee, knowing full well that this is an apple pie joint.  Creme brulee is undercooked and you get food poisoning.  You find out that it was undercooked in the first bite, but you finish the whole thing out of stubbornness and sheer hubris.  The apple pie turns out to be award-winning and you missed a once-in-a-lifetime chance to have a really terrific combination in an out of the way spot.  The apple pie is subsequently featured on "Diners Drive-ins and Dives."

Big Al Jefferson to Utah for heavily protected picks.  ...You skipped breakfast and knew that you should not have done that.  Now you are in the middle of North Dakota and are famished.  You may drive your car into a bridge abutment if you don't get food.  There is nowhere nearby that looks like it serves safe food.  You stop at a gas station that smells like old cigarette butts and buy an egg salad sandwich that the clerk tells you was homemade that very day by none other than herself.  She smells like rotten cabbage.  The sandwich costs $8.49, and makes you vomit for two days.

2nd round draft picks for Mike Beasley.  ...You are working out of town, don't know the area, and just need a sandwich to fill you up.  You skipped breakfast and are starving once again.  You find a cheap local place and expect that the turkey sub will be disappointing even though it is billed as the best sandwich in town.  It tastes alright, but you can tell they're trying a little too hard and the sandwich just doesn't have enough substance to it.  As a snack it would be fine.  As your primary means of sustenance?  It barely holds you over.  Good thing it only cost $2.

Derrick Williams pick with #2 pick.  ...That last turkey sub still haunting you, you stop in a place that pretty much only sells roast beef and turkey subs.  They are all out of roast beef.  You order the turkey because getting cute has only made you sick in the past.  The turkey sub is actually pretty good and just the right amount.  Not overwhelming, but not disappointing either, and the sub roll is actually really good, surprisingly.

The Timberwolves host the San Antonio Spurs tonight at 7:00pm at Target Center.

Critical questions will need to be answered:

Can the Timberwolves end their 16-game losing streak against the Spurs?!?
Is this team for real?!?
Will grown men faint at the sight of a Ricky Rubio cross court pass!?!

Find out tonight! And be sure to discuss the game with us in the forums.

Also, be sure to check out the Q&A we did over at Project Spurs.

After last night's great showdown with the always entertaining OKC Thunder, the T-Wolves next home game could be another epic clash. We (already!) play the Miami cHeat, in what is shaping up to be a pretty brutal opening schedule in this compressed season.  Luckily we'll have a few days off after tonight's game, before having to take on LeBon, Wade, Bosh and company. Unfortunately for the Wolves, they are a completely different team with a healthy Haslem. Too bad Mike Miller won't be playing huge minutes, because as we all know, he sucks.

TWolves Blog's ticket partner TiqIQ has a special deal for fellow T-Wolves fans: Using the ScoreBig "make an offer" feature, fans can pick their price to see Kevin Love battle under the boards. A "2 star" ticket that usually sells for $145 (after shipping and handling fees) can be had for around $99 a ticket. But this deal expires on Wednesday, so y'all need to move fast to get this special deal. To make an offer today PLEASE CLICK HERE.

As most of you probably saw, it had been rumored a few days ago that K-Love could soon be playing in the Turkish Basketball League on a team with Luol Deng and Deron Williams, during this never-ending and absurd NBA lockout.  It was definitely a legit rumor from Adrian Woj of Yahoo Sports, but it turns out that it just wasn't going to end up happening.  Apparently Love didn't feel great about that opportunity, but he didn't rule out playing elsewhere during the lockout:

Think Mr. Love would want to come play at one of our houses on an adjustable basketball goal?  Maybe put that baby down to 9 feet so that he'd really be able to show off his hops?  Someone Tweet him up.

Also in Ricky Rubio T-Wolves news...

There have been two superb pieces about Ricky Rubio in the past two days.  Definitely make sure to check them out if you are wondering what he's been up to lately.

- Again from Adrian Woj at Yahoo Sports: Free at last, "Ricky Rubio ready to start NBA career."

- And from the solid Sam Amick at CNNSI.com: "With little fanfare, Rubio takes 'little step' on road to the NBA."

- Saving the best for last, We've got Rubio highlights from Drew Gooden's charity game.  Here are the top ten plays below.  Rubio makes it twice, and also has the #1 overall play of pure, studly awesomeness: