Posts Tagged ‘Minnesota Timberwolves’

A Night At The NBA Draft Lottery

ALL BALL NERVE CENTER — Last night in New York City, a handful of NBA franchises looking for a little luck gathered in Times Square to try and beat the odds. That’s right, it’s the annual NBA Draft lottery, where the best of the worst vie for the first pick in the NBA Draft. I showed up and brought my cell phone camera along with me to see what went down behind the scenes.

Let’s get to the pictures …

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I arrived in Times Square right around 6:30 p.m. and fought my way over to the ABC Studios, where they shoot “Good Day America” or “Today This Morning” or whatever they call it — one of those morning shows that airs when I’m still asleep. There’s never really a good time to be in Times Square, because it is consistently crowded and busy and bustling, but 6:30 p.m. must be just about the worst time. Add in that it was humid and in the mid-80s today, and Times Square felt a bit like being stuck in a mosh pit. Or at the bottom of a mosh pit. (more…)

NBA Style: Classic Uniforms #TBT



By the NBA.com Style Crew –

While the NBA is a League that has always had its share of individuals, the one unifying feature of all players is that everyone wears uniforms. But that doesn’t make them uniform. Some franchises have opted for simple jerseys with their team name in a stylized font, such as the Knicks or the Minneapolis Lakers, other teams have gone for more interesting expressions. Check out, for instance, the New Jersey Nets, with a red/white/blue stars and stripes motif; All-Star Game jerseys, with stars literally all over them; a Toronto Raptor jersey featuring an enormous cartoon raptor. Sometimes it’s in the details, like with the trim on the throwback Syracuse Nationals jersey. And then sometimes we’re drawn to the colors, like with the gorgeous baby blue and red of the old Sacramento Kings jerseys.

Whatever you like, for many of us uniforms can be much more than just a statement of which team we’re cheering for. We picked some pics in the gallery below of uniforms that caught our eye.

What is your favorite uniform of all-time? Let us know in the comments section, and don’t forget to continue the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #NBAStyle…
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Love Cranks Up The Funny Again

By Jeff Case

If there’s one guy we love here at All Ball HQ, its Minnesota Timberwolves power forward Kevin Love. His on-court play speaks for itself, but if you need reminding there’s the buzzer-beating game-winners he hits … and the 30-point/30-rebound game a few seasons ago … and him winning the 3-Point Contest last season … we could go on and on. Heck, even spending a day with him seems like a blast.

Off the court, he’s a funny dude, what with his good-natured sense of humor about himself, getting into his former favorite sport, his Twitter humor and so forth. He’s also been active in the Minnesota community and holds an annual coat drive (this is the fourth such one) to benefit Minnesotans in need this winter. Love coulda went with the standard stare-at-the-camera-and-read-cue-cards approach to drum up support for his cause.

But that wouldn’t be a very Love-ish way to handle this, would it?

Much like the promotional video for his coat drive two years ago, Love busts out the weird/funny (as you’ll see below):

Investigative Report: The Awkward Handshake

by Kevin McCormack

The Kevin Love-Wesley Johnson handshake whiff from last week has already burned up the InterWebs, so kudos to the Timberwolves for addressing this mega-scandal head on: