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After the 1994-95 NBA season, the Washington Bullets faced a crossroads.The team had been sub-par going on 15 years, ever since the days of Elvin Hayes, Wes Unseld and Bobby "Greyhound" Dandridge.The '95 campaign ended with the Bullets having two obvious strengths and one glaring hole.Their frontcourt was stacked between Chris Webber and Juwan Howard, both only 21.

The Toronto Raptors welcomed the Minnesota Timberwolves to Scotiabank Arena tonight as they attempt to climb in the standings during the last weeks of the regular NBA Season.With nearly similar records and placements in the East and West, it's crunch time for both these teams.The T-Wolves came into this game undermanned, missing Anthony Edwards after he suffered a bad ankle injury last night.

The Raptors have a chance to string multiple wins together tonight has they host an injury-ridden Minnesota Timberwolves team in Toronto tonight.The Raptors most recently won against the Oklahoma City Thunder, and sit in ninth place in the Eastern Conference.The Timberwolves on the other hand are eighth in the Western Conference, but will be missing a plethora of players going into tonights' game.

Following a shocking 111-109 loss to the Rockets, the Boston Celtics look to get back in the win column on Wednesday, March 15 with a battle against the Timberwolves from the Target in Minneapolis.Boston had one of its biggest letdowns in the season in Houston on March 13, ceding 72 points to the trio of Jalen Green, Jabari Smith Jr., and Kenyon Martin Jr. and wasting a 43-point outburst from Jaylen Brown.

When: Thursday, February 16 at 8 p.m. ET
Where: Target Center, Minneapolis, MN
How to watch: NBC Sports Washington
WIZARDS - None.TIMBERWOLVES - Kyle Anderson, QUESTIONABLE (back); Rudy Gobert, QUESTIONABLE (groin); Karl-Anthony Towns, OUT (calf)
The Washington Wizards' "Big 3", if only they showed up majority of the season, could actually rip apart teams just like they did with the Portland Trail Blazers previously.

During Masai Ujiri's end of season presser, he said a lot of things.Most of them had to do with the firing of Nick Nurse that had happened that morning, but other questions about the team were asked and answered.One of those answers from Ujiri involved his labeling of Jakob Poeltl as a top-10 center in the NBA.

The Los Angeles Lakers had their revenge on Wednesday, beating the Chicago Bulls on the road after losing at home to them just three days prior.The game featured a brand new starting lineup for the Lakers which saw Jarred Vanderbilt, Austin Reaves, and D'Angelo Russell flanking LeBron James and Anthony Davis.

First, I would like to address last week's bet in which we properly targeted the Nets being very bad, but underestimated just how bad they were.Domantas Sabonis was on pace to hit the over on his rebounds prop, but the Kings winning by approximately 60 points throughout the contest meant he basically didn't have to play in the second half.

Coming off of a huge comeback win against the Nuggets on Saturday, the Knicks take on the Timberwolves at the Mecca Monday night trying to build off of another memorable Garden evening.The Knicks fought back from down double digits in the third quarter to beat the team with the best record in the west over the weekend and made another statement to the rest of the league.

This game should be considered a golden opportunity for the Raptors to inch closer to the all-important eight seed.League leading Milwaukee is waiting on Sunday, literally the worst opponent you can draw up to play on a back to back.1-1 in this scenario is a passing grade.Minnesota is the final West opponent on the schedule.

The first of a five-game homestand for the Lakers began with a significant contest on Friday night against the talented and athletic Minnesota Timberwolves, one of the three teams ahead of L.A. in the chase for a spot in the play-in tournament.The Lakers will play this stretch without LeBron James, who will be reevaluated in three weeks after it was announced on Thursday that the forward has a right foot tendon injury.

With the Western Conference being a tight-knit race, this will be a twice-weekly series looking at the Western Conference standings and games to watch as the look to move back into the playoffs.While it may feel like very little has broken the Lakers way when it comes to injuries this season and in the last week, specifically, almost everything in the standings and playoff race continues to go their way.

If Fred VanVleet and the Toronto Raptors wanted any hope of avoiding becoming sellers at the trade deadline and starting another winning streak, they needed to take advantage of the fact that they were lacing up against a Minnesota Timberwolves team that lacked both Karl-Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert.

Quin Snyder was back in his element.Sweats, sneakers, T-shirt.Evaluating players, sharing ideas, connecting with new people and reconnecting with some others.He was coaching again.For two days, anyway.It's a start.Snyder was the director of the Basketball Africa League Combine that happened Sunday and Monday in Paris.

The Boston Celtics got away with a win over the Timberwolves on Wednesday by the skin of their teeth, and on March 17, the Cs hope to honor St. Patrick with a victory on his unofficial holiday against the Blazers in Portland.Against Minnesota, things came down to the very last minute.Grant Williams won a controversial jump ball over Rudy Gobert, and Jayson Tatum iced the game with two free throws in the final two seconds - being given an extra technical foul shot due to Gobert's complaints about Williams potentially getting away with tapping the ball before it hit its peak in the air.

Celtics Williams, who is seven inches shorter than Gobert, won a key jump ball in the final seconds on Wednesday.According to NBA rules, a jump ball can't be tapped until it reaches its highest point.So, when 6-foot-6 Grant Williams beat out 7-foot-1 Rudy Gobert for a key jump ball in the waning seconds of the Celtics' 104-102 win over Minnesota on Wednesday night, there was some controversy.

A fan-favorite last year, Stanley Johnson has once again bounced around the league after being traded by the Lakers.Could he return to the Lakers this season?And just how unfair were the Nets in their trade talks with the Lakers?Those are the topics of the headlines and rumors for today's roundup.Stanley Johnson reunion
In a season full of dull moments, one of the bright spots was Johnson.

Tumbling towards the February 9 trade deadline, almost no team is a more obvious candidate to sell off anything of value than the Pistons, as they ensure their best chance to land any one of the awesome prospects projected to go at the top of next year's draft.If the Pistons do decide to extract the maximum future value from their current roster, their most valuable plug-and-play veteran is easily Bojan Bogdanović, the 33-year-old Croatian having the most prolific scoring season of his nine-year NBA career.

In the latest to make noise within the Miami Heat trade rumor mill, it was reported by Yahoo Sports' Jake Fischer on Friday that the Heat have "registered interest" in Minnesota Timberwolves guard D'Angelo Russell.Russell, on an expiring deal, is currently making $31.4 million and could look to be moved ahead of the Feb. 9 trade deadline.

If the trade price for Jakob Poeltl becomes too high for the Boston Celtics, there could be alternatives with lower ceilings but who could still provide many of the same functions the San Antonio Spurs center would provide in small spurts off the pine.Inside The Celtics' Bobby Krivitsky provided a few names who could fit into the C's trade plan if the news that Payton Pritchard won't be traded doesn't hold true ahead of the February 9 trade deadline.

The Toronto Raptors have lost consecutive games against a Bucks team that didn't have Giannis Antetokounmpo or Khris Middleton and a Timberwolves squad without Karl-Anthony Towns and Rudy Gobert.This is a bad team who needs to make a trade at some point.Let the Raptors trade rumors fly!Toronto would do well to look at offers for both OG Anunoby and Fred VanVleet, the former of whom appears to have hit the ceiling on offense and the latter who has regressed hard.

The Toronto Raptors don't have a ton to smile about this season, but the terrific play of rookie big man Christian Koloko has been one of the few silver linings the team can hold their head high about.Koloko has been one of the best second-round picks in the 2023 class.Koloko is averaging just 3.8 points and 3.4 rebounds per game, but the 7-1 rim protector has already shown to be a tremendous defensive player.

The Miami Heat may be in the market to make a move come the NBA Trade Deadline.Perhaps, they may even entertain a conversation or two before then.However, recent reports indicate that if there is a move to be made by this Miami Heat franchise, it'll be among the forward or big positions.The Miami Heat have also been linked to several guys that fit that very bill, making all of this that much more intriguing.

Last year, the Chicago Bulls overcame a litany of injuries to post a record of 46-36 and looked on the up and up in the Eastern Conference.The Utah Jazz, on the other hand, initiated a fire sale of the veteran talent, jettisoning Donovan Mitchell, Rudy Gobert, Bojan Bogdanovic, and Royce O'Neale for as many picks and young assets as they could get their hands on.

Perhaps someone should alert the Wizards: It's permissible under the rules of basketball to play well on both offense and defense in the same game.So far this season, they've had stretches where the defense was good and the offense was bad, stretches where offense was good and the defense bad, and stretches where they were bad on both ends.

Perhaps someone should alert the Wizards: It's permissible under the rules of basketball to play well on both offense and defense in the same game.So far this season, they've had stretches where the defense was good and the offense was bad, stretches where offense was good and the defense bad, and stretches where they were bad on both ends.