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Minnesota Timberwolves: Takeaways From Media Day And Real Training Camp

By Aaron Mah

Mar 7, 2015; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Garnett (21) raises his arms to get the crowd pumped up in the second half against the Portland Trail Blazers at Target Center. The Timberwolves won 121-113. Mandatory Credit: Jesse Johnson-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 7, 2015; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Garnett (21) raises his arms to get the crowd pumped up in the second half against the Portland Trail Blazers at Target Center. The Timberwolves won 121-113. Mandatory Credit: Jesse Johnson-USA TODAY Sports /
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Mar 7, 2015; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Garnett (21) raises his arms to get the crowd pumped up in the second half against the Portland Trail Blazers at Target Center. The Timberwolves won 121-113. Mandatory Credit: Jesse Johnson-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 7, 2015; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Garnett (21) raises his arms to get the crowd pumped up in the second half against the Portland Trail Blazers at Target Center. The Timberwolves won 121-113. Mandatory Credit: Jesse Johnson-USA TODAY Sports /

The wait is finally over, party people! Media Day for all 30 teams has come and gone, and training camp has officially begun. In fact, by the end of week, preseason games are set to commence.

For all you basketball addicts — I’m talking to the ones who refresh RealGM or HoopsHype by the hour, and the sick cravers who followed the FIBA Americas and the EuroBasket religiously over the past month — we made it through the doldrums of yet another NBA-less late-summer.

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As October hits, we welcome the litany of overdone proclamations almost every other player makes; whether he gained/lost that golden 15 pounds of muscle/fat (#MUSCLE WATCH), or making 2,000 jumpers a day, we are just collectively grateful the game has made its way back into our respective lives.

In sheer early-Fall fashion, almost every team in the association possesses some sort of juicy storyline. For the Minnesota Timberwolves, the narratives tethered to the team are aplenty — from a full season’s worth of taking a trip down memory lane with Kevin Garnett, to the unfurling of a potential dynamic duo with the last two No. 1 overall picks in Andrew Wiggins and Karl-Anthony Towns, most Wolves fan are nonsensically psyched about the prospects of the upcoming season.

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Unlike most teams, however, Minny also goes into training camp with a rather sympathetic plot clouding over the franchise, as their head coach, president of basketball operations, and part owner, Flip Saunders, officially took an indefinite leave of absence after discovering he had Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Needless to say, our thoughts here at Hoops Habit are with Flip and his family.

As unfortunate of a circumstance Saunders’ health condition is the situation also engenders another uncertainty surrounding the team. Specifically, will interim coach, Sam Mitchell, carry out Flip’s system and philosophies, or will he enact his own schemes and blueprint?

While it is still way too early to definitively say it’s one or the other, here are five early takeaways from the interviews collected at Media Day and the subsequent footage we saw during the first day of Real Training Camp.

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