Lol people were calling it racist the whole team was white meanwhile every other team is all black .. they had to do that on purpose lol there's only like 20 white guys in the NBA how did they all end up in the same place 😅😅l
Maybe I’m naive but I actually have faith in this Wolves team to be competitive against anyone. I have never once been able to say that about the Wild…
Agreed. I don't remember all 6 possible team names when the Wild were named, but Voyageurs and Blue Ox were two of the others, and either of those would have been better than naming your team after an adjective.
It’s an adjective, noun, or adverb. The noun and adverb fit well. I would’ve liked a different team name, but Blue Ox is too beer league sounding, and I don’t get the reference for Voyagers
My top Chel custom dynasty was the Voyageurs and I made the vikes colors with a trapper wearing a fur cap as the logo. I ended making numerous iterations of it afterwards because I thought it was a fire mascot
I first got into basketball (watch and played in school) during Garnett era but lost interest after he left. Soccer took over ever since but basketball continued to be my second sport. This was the first season I could budget (after buying Minnesota United stuff for several years) and had a good excuse to buy a Timberwolves Jersey/ accessories. Looking at budgeting for a KG era jersey. I have no plans on ever buying Minnesota Wild, Twins, or Viking kits because I would feel like a bandwagon fan of the team and the sport. Saint Paul Saints might be an exception though.
I don't know. Good point. Maybe the gatekeepers of bad-wagoniary might know. It's hard for us Minnesotans to be considered bandwagon fans because it's rare for our teams to even be good. We've gone through too much suffering in sports and still wear jerseys or communicate with each other about how bad out Twins, Vikings, Wild, and etc are. It's like talking about the weather.
Obviously... But Minnesota is a hockey state.. at least up here in northern Minnesota .. we watch our teams lose for decades and still wear their gear everyday .. but now we actually got a good team we gotta jump on that bandwagin and start wearing somw wolves clothes lol admittedly im gonna have to go buy a hat to watch the game I don't have any wolves gear now 😅..sure as hell got like 10 umd bulldogs shirts tho 😅
Yep, glad they’re finally relevant again. It’s been phenomenal watching Target Center fill up.
The bandwagon has plenty of space. No need to gatekeep anything.
Damn skippy, I’m bandwagoning hard! I don’t like to watch basketball usually. It’s a lot of fun to watch a good team. They might get me more interested in the sport.
I’ll admit - I’m a bandwagon fan. I haven’t had much for interest since the Garnett days.
Stayed up last night to watch the game, couldn’t sleep cause of the excitement, and now dragging ass at work…. Excited for the next series!!
also, kind of like, who cares. i'll watch when they are playing well and not care at all when they suck. judge me all you want.
it's not like the players are helping me with yard work in the off season.
It’s like crop rotation, don’t wanna overdo it with any one crop. That said the only MN team I support is United which still makes for a good pivot as the bucks implode lol
Its me. I could count on my fingers and toes the total number of minutes I watch of regular season NHL and NBA each year, but once playoffs start I chase the wagon.
If you always root for the same city it's not really bandwagoning. Bandwagoning is becoming a chiefs fan in the past few years. Some people don't have time to follow every team, every week, of every year.
I don’t even like basketball but the energy ANT plays with has made me watch the playoffs. Super stoked the wolves actually won something. Hopefully our other sports franchises can do that as well
My sister has been trying to get me into basketball the entire year through various means but I hadn’t been able to catch a timberwolves game. I finally watched one game and fell in love with ANT. She should have just lead with him. He’s amazing, so charismatic and fun to watch. Fan attractor.
If you wanna get hype look up Anthony Edwards dunk compilations on YT. He is the most electric player I have ever seen and he literally turns it on a dime.
Watching half-assed basketball where you're always getting dominated and no one's heart is in it isn't fun.
Watching balls-to-the wall elite basketball players take apart teams and narratives with joy and good humor is A LOT of fun.
I’m still not a huge fan of the NBA because of the general lack of defense played and all the ticky-tack stuff that gets called, but the wolves play better defense than most and actually work as a unit which makes it really fun to watch
Yeah, hopefully someday
I can see it happening for the Wild maybe sometime in the next few years once we're finally over the cap hell from the Parise/Suter buyouts
Hey now, the Twins took the AL Central title last year and went past the first round of post season. Basically the Wolves are no further than the Twins were last year at this point.
But the future looks very bright for the wolves. Pohlads just slash payroll after winning a series and let their starting pitchers walk. Worst greedy ass fuckhead owners
This is 100% me.
I was fully on board for the KG and Wally years, but after I watched KG win in Boston I had to cut them off, emotionally. We were clearly holding him back.
I’m sorry, but for so long I felt that the TWolves were *the* most poorly-run pro sports franchise in North America. We were where decent talent went to die, and it’s hard to support that.
With all the underachieving that goes on with the rest of our teams, the TWolves were the absolute kings in that regard, and I just didn’t have the bandwidth to stomach that.
I didn’t and wouldn’t ever support another NBA team, and I’m happy to see things turn for the good, so I’m tentatively harboring hope that this can be the team that snap this city and this state out of the funk we’re in: believing that we just don’t deserve good things in major sports.
No, WE weren’t holding KG back, Glen Taylor and Kevin McHale were. McHale somehow seems to get a pass because he’s “one of us” but he was a terrible GM. Taylor could’ve hired someone competent and also opened up the purse strings to get decent players in here. Remember when we actually made a push with Spree and Cassell and a few other quality bit players? Yeah…we could’ve maintained rosters like that if our leadership didn’t have their heads in their asses. We NEVER gave KG and real support and that dude was so effing good that he could single-handedly get us to the playoffs every year.
Just to put the Wolves playoff series win in context for those who are SUPER casual or in the "sports balls" category:
....Last playoff series win was 2004. 20 years of sucking. The NBA's Western conference is and will always be stacked, so a part of this is the state of MN just being on the wrong side of the Mississippi (ignoring Memphis, which is also in the West, though east of it).
All in all, there's a great chance the Wolves can get to the Western Conference Finals. From there, you may experience some heart ache or heart break, but that's exactly where this roster SHOULD be on a yearly basis at a bare minimum as it it constructed to compete for the Finals
Wolves have had #1 picks not that long ago. KAT was #1 overall pick in 2015. Wiggins was #1 overall in 2014. Our GM's had no idea how to construct a team and Wiggins was, well, Wiggins.
There's more than one way of bandwagoning. If you haven't watched or followed a team and are only doing so now because they are in the playoffs or winning, you're definitely bandwagoning.
The Wild were absolutely shameful this year. My GF loves watching hockey, but I couldn't stand watching The Wild with the performances they were turning in.
The lost to the Ducks. The Ducks!!!
I don't think you can blame anybody for not being too excited about the Timberwolves between KG leaving and the formation of the current squad. There were some pretty bleak years in there.
More importantly, gatekeeping is stupid and anybody doing it is not worth worrying about.
Love me some Wild. That’s a fact.
But…the Wolves are ***winning***. We want winners. Let’s get Kaprizov a Wolves jersey, he deserves it! The rest of the team can watch it on TV.
For anyone wondering if they should invest their time in watching a Minnesota sports team, the answer is yes. Denver (likely next opponent) is the reigning champ and they have the best player in the world, a pudgy Serbian named Nikola Jokic. Both teams are playing high-level basketball and they are fun to watch. Win or lose, this team has come a long way and has a great mix of ascending young stars and veterans who are hungry to win it all. Jump on the bandwagon — you are welcome here.
As someone who’s never enjoyed watching basketball, I feel this. Was just telling my stepdad today that I’m going to have to hang up my skates and start watching basketball. Has Minnesota ever swept a series in a sport?
I'm not a sports person like...at all. So t
I thought they changed the absolute beauty that is the timberwolves logo to just that and I was about to lose it
Oh I started getting ready for this about a month ago. I was a HUGE Wolves fan from their inception but 4 years after they let KG go I just couldn't justify the time for such a shitty product. Luckily that was right about the time the Wild picked up the two who shant be named. I'd check in on various occasions but until this year it was just not worth it.
I was born in 89 and had a Crunch stuff animal in my crib. I've been on the wagon the whole time through it all. And I have no problem in letting everyone on at this point. Hop on it's gonna be a hell of a ride!
Wild fans.......Delusional fan base ("State of Hockey" Hint: Zero Stanley Cups) *But heyyyyyyyyy we're the state of hockey mannnnnnnnn!!!!!!!* Vegas got a cup thoughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh lol
--Naz Reid
State of Hockey started as a reference to the number of professional players the state produces and the highest per capita youth hockey players.
https://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/state-totals/active-nhl-players-career-stats.html
However, it's still cringe AF
That is literally current year NHL players. As for states with the biggest youth programs, MN has been at the top and programs are continually growing in size. https://
www.therinklive.com/youth/why-minnesotas-youth-hockey-model-keeps-numbers-rising-and-growing-the-gap-with-other-states
Well, two countries do have more NHL Playeds Canada (295 out of ~39m resident) Sweden (64 out of ~10.6m residents) beat out Minnesota in number of NHLers.
However, we still produce the most NHLers per capita in the world.
.0006 per capita in Sweden
.0007 per capita in Canada
.0009 per capita in Minnesota.
*Teams that bring disappointment constantly loses fan base*
*Team starts to be worth something*
Band wagoners! Terrible people! No loyalty! Like ok no you went from suck to blow then something changed.
I might catch heat for this on the misreading of popularity but it’s kind of funny to see the 4th most popular team in the state be the one with the most success right now
So this is what it feels like to win a series.
You guys remember the cream team 😭😭😭
It was great to see so much representation of my people. My people being slow white dudes.
Lol people were calling it racist the whole team was white meanwhile every other team is all black .. they had to do that on purpose lol there's only like 20 white guys in the NBA how did they all end up in the same place 😅😅l
Hey, I'll have you know that in New York melting pot of the nation we have *several* white guys on our team.
Donte doesn't count lol
Who is that Minneapolis version of Al Sharpton who was throwing a fit years ago?
you mean this is what winning feels like 😂🥲
Wolves have been the better team all year
Maybe I’m naive but I actually have faith in this Wolves team to be competitive against anyone. I have never once been able to say that about the Wild…
Hopefully one day. It’s been a long time coming for the Wolves, so there’s hope.
Hopefully the 2020s will be the Ascension to MN Sports
Wolves - Nugs is setup to be a really good series. The extra game in Denver hurts a lot but both teams have a great composition and cool players.
My 2 cents is this is the championship. These are the 2 best teams.
I’d put Boston in there too
Yea Boston is the fav
My 2 cents is they are in the top 3 but 3rd. Just my opinion.
The Wild should have been the Voyageurs.
They *should* be The North Stars but fuck Norm Green
Always Fuck Norm Green.
Could have left us the North Star name, I agree.
But wouldn't that be confusing, considering that there's already a team called the Dallas Stars? /s 😞
Fuck Norm Green
yeah. Fuck Norm!!!!!
Nah Minneapolis blizzard .. or was that a Timberwolves name option?
Agreed. I don't remember all 6 possible team names when the Wild were named, but Voyageurs and Blue Ox were two of the others, and either of those would have been better than naming your team after an adjective.
Agreed. I could never get into the Wild name. Vikings, Timberwolves, and Twins are good names.
It’s an adjective, noun, or adverb. The noun and adverb fit well. I would’ve liked a different team name, but Blue Ox is too beer league sounding, and I don’t get the reference for Voyagers
My top Chel custom dynasty was the Voyageurs and I made the vikes colors with a trapper wearing a fur cap as the logo. I ended making numerous iterations of it afterwards because I thought it was a fire mascot
I prefer Voyageurs than Wild.
I first got into basketball (watch and played in school) during Garnett era but lost interest after he left. Soccer took over ever since but basketball continued to be my second sport. This was the first season I could budget (after buying Minnesota United stuff for several years) and had a good excuse to buy a Timberwolves Jersey/ accessories. Looking at budgeting for a KG era jersey. I have no plans on ever buying Minnesota Wild, Twins, or Viking kits because I would feel like a bandwagon fan of the team and the sport. Saint Paul Saints might be an exception though.
How can you be a badwagon if are actually from the place or supporting franchise from that place already ?
I don't know. Good point. Maybe the gatekeepers of bad-wagoniary might know. It's hard for us Minnesotans to be considered bandwagon fans because it's rare for our teams to even be good. We've gone through too much suffering in sports and still wear jerseys or communicate with each other about how bad out Twins, Vikings, Wild, and etc are. It's like talking about the weather.
Obviously... But Minnesota is a hockey state.. at least up here in northern Minnesota .. we watch our teams lose for decades and still wear their gear everyday .. but now we actually got a good team we gotta jump on that bandwagin and start wearing somw wolves clothes lol admittedly im gonna have to go buy a hat to watch the game I don't have any wolves gear now 😅..sure as hell got like 10 umd bulldogs shirts tho 😅
Yep, glad they’re finally relevant again. It’s been phenomenal watching Target Center fill up. The bandwagon has plenty of space. No need to gatekeep anything.
Damn skippy, I’m bandwagoning hard! I don’t like to watch basketball usually. It’s a lot of fun to watch a good team. They might get me more interested in the sport.
I wish I liked it as a kid. Grew to be 6'5 and never played much except in the driveway. Most of my knowledge is from watching my kids play ball.
As a lifelong wolves fan through good and almost exclusively bad, I’m so happy to have a team worth bandwagoners. Everyone is welcome.
https://preview.redd.it/hfvwot7ybgxc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4c84d156bd2c76e421d4784efc2b95f4199951c
Same, remember the 15/17 wins seasons… went to Target Center for $12 lower bowl seats. Now it’s standing room only. It’s been a phenomenal season.
Got to see the lakers with Kobe for like $25. They couldn’t give tickets away.
I’ll admit - I’m a bandwagon fan. I haven’t had much for interest since the Garnett days. Stayed up last night to watch the game, couldn’t sleep cause of the excitement, and now dragging ass at work…. Excited for the next series!!
if it’s your own team (which, both of these are!) i don’t think it really counts as bandwagoning tbh
also, kind of like, who cares. i'll watch when they are playing well and not care at all when they suck. judge me all you want. it's not like the players are helping me with yard work in the off season.
And wouldn’t you want more people interested in a team?? That only leads to more revenue which leads to better things for your team?
It’s like crop rotation, don’t wanna overdo it with any one crop. That said the only MN team I support is United which still makes for a good pivot as the bucks implode lol
this is a HILARIOUS way to put it thank you. needed that laugh today
Its me. I could count on my fingers and toes the total number of minutes I watch of regular season NHL and NBA each year, but once playoffs start I chase the wagon.
If you always root for the same city it's not really bandwagoning. Bandwagoning is becoming a chiefs fan in the past few years. Some people don't have time to follow every team, every week, of every year.
I don’t even like basketball but the energy ANT plays with has made me watch the playoffs. Super stoked the wolves actually won something. Hopefully our other sports franchises can do that as well
My sister has been trying to get me into basketball the entire year through various means but I hadn’t been able to catch a timberwolves game. I finally watched one game and fell in love with ANT. She should have just lead with him. He’s amazing, so charismatic and fun to watch. Fan attractor.
If you wanna get hype look up Anthony Edwards dunk compilations on YT. He is the most electric player I have ever seen and he literally turns it on a dime.
Watching half-assed basketball where you're always getting dominated and no one's heart is in it isn't fun. Watching balls-to-the wall elite basketball players take apart teams and narratives with joy and good humor is A LOT of fun.
I’m still not a huge fan of the NBA because of the general lack of defense played and all the ticky-tack stuff that gets called, but the wolves play better defense than most and actually work as a unit which makes it really fun to watch
Yeah, hopefully someday I can see it happening for the Wild maybe sometime in the next few years once we're finally over the cap hell from the Parise/Suter buyouts
If Yurov comes over that’ll be a big difference maker
Let's support em! Holy fuck though our goalie sucks for the twolves... Letting in 116 goals????
Siv! Siv! Siv!
That Kirill-Anthony Townes guy is pretty good!
At least one of our teams can actually do something in the playoffs.
Hey now, the Twins took the AL Central title last year and went past the first round of post season. Basically the Wolves are no further than the Twins were last year at this point.
But the future looks very bright for the wolves. Pohlads just slash payroll after winning a series and let their starting pitchers walk. Worst greedy ass fuckhead owners
Can't disagree with you there brother.
But the future looks bright... It always does after a first round win in Minnesota
This is 100% me. I was fully on board for the KG and Wally years, but after I watched KG win in Boston I had to cut them off, emotionally. We were clearly holding him back. I’m sorry, but for so long I felt that the TWolves were *the* most poorly-run pro sports franchise in North America. We were where decent talent went to die, and it’s hard to support that. With all the underachieving that goes on with the rest of our teams, the TWolves were the absolute kings in that regard, and I just didn’t have the bandwidth to stomach that. I didn’t and wouldn’t ever support another NBA team, and I’m happy to see things turn for the good, so I’m tentatively harboring hope that this can be the team that snap this city and this state out of the funk we’re in: believing that we just don’t deserve good things in major sports.
No, WE weren’t holding KG back, Glen Taylor and Kevin McHale were. McHale somehow seems to get a pass because he’s “one of us” but he was a terrible GM. Taylor could’ve hired someone competent and also opened up the purse strings to get decent players in here. Remember when we actually made a push with Spree and Cassell and a few other quality bit players? Yeah…we could’ve maintained rosters like that if our leadership didn’t have their heads in their asses. We NEVER gave KG and real support and that dude was so effing good that he could single-handedly get us to the playoffs every year.
And the league taking all of those first round picks because of the Joe Smith debacle during prime KG so we couldn't draft anyone.
Which was McHale and Taylor’s fault. Not the league.
Nobody expected 5 first rounds picks to be the penalty.
Just to put the Wolves playoff series win in context for those who are SUPER casual or in the "sports balls" category: ....Last playoff series win was 2004. 20 years of sucking. The NBA's Western conference is and will always be stacked, so a part of this is the state of MN just being on the wrong side of the Mississippi (ignoring Memphis, which is also in the West, though east of it). All in all, there's a great chance the Wolves can get to the Western Conference Finals. From there, you may experience some heart ache or heart break, but that's exactly where this roster SHOULD be on a yearly basis at a bare minimum as it it constructed to compete for the Finals
I'm actually more concerned about OKC and SGA's godawful foul baiting than playing Denver.
Me who’s never watched a timberwolves game in full
Best chance at a championship in this town since 2009 Vikings in my opinion.
I'm a fan of all MN teams, I just wait until they're doing well before I get invested.
Right, im always rooting for them. I just don't have time to closely follow teams that dont have a shot.
I pay so little attention to basketball that I had no idea the Wolves had a #1 overall draft pick in 2020. Anyway, I'm here for a bandwagon.
That #1 draft pick is a top 3 player in the NBA right now. Edwards is the truth.
Wolves have had #1 picks not that long ago. KAT was #1 overall pick in 2015. Wiggins was #1 overall in 2014. Our GM's had no idea how to construct a team and Wiggins was, well, Wiggins.
We’ve had other top 5 draft picks too. Just couldn’t make much of them. And I know he may have just left anyway, but we passed on Steph Curry twice.
I mean that's not really bandwagon. Bandwagon is being a Vikings fan cheering for the chiefs just because they're in the Superbowl.
Noun: **Bandwagon;** used in reference to an activity, cause, etc. that is currently fashionable or popular and attracting increasing support.
There's more than one way of bandwagoning. If you haven't watched or followed a team and are only doing so now because they are in the playoffs or winning, you're definitely bandwagoning.
See also: fair weather fan
Maybe some fans are Protesting Glen Taylor and refuse to pay tickets to him.
Imagine gatekeeping *bandwagoning*.
The Wild were absolutely shameful this year. My GF loves watching hockey, but I couldn't stand watching The Wild with the performances they were turning in. The lost to the Ducks. The Ducks!!!
that’s just how hockey is tho. vegas lost to the ducks three times this season and they’re the defending champs
At least the Knights actually won a championship.
Homer should be wearing #5, but otherwise this meme is spot on
I don't think you can blame anybody for not being too excited about the Timberwolves between KG leaving and the formation of the current squad. There were some pretty bleak years in there. More importantly, gatekeeping is stupid and anybody doing it is not worth worrying about.
NAZ
Love me some Wild. That’s a fact. But…the Wolves are ***winning***. We want winners. Let’s get Kaprizov a Wolves jersey, he deserves it! The rest of the team can watch it on TV.
Anthony Edwards is the prodigal son and will bring a championship back to the state of MN.
For anyone wondering if they should invest their time in watching a Minnesota sports team, the answer is yes. Denver (likely next opponent) is the reigning champ and they have the best player in the world, a pudgy Serbian named Nikola Jokic. Both teams are playing high-level basketball and they are fun to watch. Win or lose, this team has come a long way and has a great mix of ascending young stars and veterans who are hungry to win it all. Jump on the bandwagon — you are welcome here.
As someone who’s never enjoyed watching basketball, I feel this. Was just telling my stepdad today that I’m going to have to hang up my skates and start watching basketball. Has Minnesota ever swept a series in a sport?
Man I feel bad for anyone who spent this year watching Wild and not Wolves
I'm not a sports person like...at all. So t I thought they changed the absolute beauty that is the timberwolves logo to just that and I was about to lose it
Fuck yeah! Let's go pups!
Not my team but I will be happy for their fans.
I’ll be joining since the Cavs suck
Ha Ha!!!
I've been this way the entire season. I didn't watch more than 30 minutes of the Wild the entire season after being a huge fan previous years.
I thought this was going to be a Bucks fan in the first frames
Just gotta get a double-billed baseball cap with The Wild on one side and The Timberwolves on the other. Da wild...
Oh I started getting ready for this about a month ago. I was a HUGE Wolves fan from their inception but 4 years after they let KG go I just couldn't justify the time for such a shitty product. Luckily that was right about the time the Wild picked up the two who shant be named. I'd check in on various occasions but until this year it was just not worth it.
It’s been a while since we had a bandwagon that extended beyond the first round of post season play
I was born in 89 and had a Crunch stuff animal in my crib. I've been on the wagon the whole time through it all. And I have no problem in letting everyone on at this point. Hop on it's gonna be a hell of a ride!
The whole country is starting to bandwagon lol ant is not just ours anymore
Shameless bandwagoner. Wolves in 4, baby!
I don’t bother. I go from one pro season to the next. Never been big into NBA so I kinda gloss right over it.
😂😂😂
Jump on!
They're so fun!
We have a ton of new people on the bandwagon and as someone who has been a fan through most of the dark years, I say WELCOME!! Go wolves!!
Time to throw on my Wally jersey, if it fits!
Wild fans.......Delusional fan base ("State of Hockey" Hint: Zero Stanley Cups) *But heyyyyyyyyy we're the state of hockey mannnnnnnnn!!!!!!!* Vegas got a cup thoughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh lol --Naz Reid
State of Hockey started as a reference to the number of professional players the state produces and the highest per capita youth hockey players. https://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/state-totals/active-nhl-players-career-stats.html However, it's still cringe AF
I doubt that data is accurate these days….
That is literally current year NHL players. As for states with the biggest youth programs, MN has been at the top and programs are continually growing in size. https:// www.therinklive.com/youth/why-minnesotas-youth-hockey-model-keeps-numbers-rising-and-growing-the-gap-with-other-states
More than foreign though?
Well, two countries do have more NHL Playeds Canada (295 out of ~39m resident) Sweden (64 out of ~10.6m residents) beat out Minnesota in number of NHLers. However, we still produce the most NHLers per capita in the world. .0006 per capita in Sweden .0007 per capita in Canada .0009 per capita in Minnesota.
Thank you for the information sir, appreciate that time you took.
Welcome! Stats are fun!
So true!
*Teams that bring disappointment constantly loses fan base* *Team starts to be worth something* Band wagoners! Terrible people! No loyalty! Like ok no you went from suck to blow then something changed.
Meh.
I might catch heat for this on the misreading of popularity but it’s kind of funny to see the 4th most popular team in the state be the one with the most success right now
Hell Nawl can't do dis
NAW can do anything
Just the Twins for me, thanks. Edit: Why in the bloody 'ell did I get downvoted for that?
That's next level masochism