Wolves Squeak Past Heat in a Game That Left Everyone Confused, Including the Refs
MIAMI – The Minnesota Timberwolves edged out the Miami Heat 106-104 in a game that felt like it was decided more by fate than basketball.
Duncan Robinson did his best "too little, too late" impression with a clutch three in the dying moments, but the real headline came when Bam Adebayo earned himself a cool $50K fine for expressing his feelings after a missed call on a last-second three. The league cited “excessive whining,” which, to be fair, might be the softest technical foul of the season.
Meanwhile, Kevin Love, the Timberwolves' long-lost ex-franchise cornerstone
reminded the world why Cleveland paid him to leave, starting the game but clocking his usual 10 minutes of cardio before disappearing like a ghost. Another ex-Wolves franchise player, Andrew Wiggins, clearly thought the game was beneath him and sat out, only to show up the next night against an injury-riddled Bulls squad and contribute to their undermanned victory. Tough look, Wiggs.
The Wolves’ performance was a mathematical anomaly.
The team, which averages 22 free throws a game, somehow attempted only 14 and shot like they were legally obligated to miss (8/14 from the line). However, to compensate for their sudden fear of free throws, they remembered how to shoot threes, draining 18 of them at a 40% clip. No explanation was provided for this bizarre trade-off, but we assume it’s part of a larger plot to keep Wolves fans emotionally unstable.
In a true team effort, the Wolves saw no one score more than 15 points,
With Mike Conley, Naz Reid, and Donte DiVincenzo leading the way in a collective shrug of offensive production. The team’s supposed go-to guys, Anthony Edwards and Julius Randle, both decided to have a quiet night with 13 points each, making sure no one felt too important.
But the real MVP? Joe Ingles.
The man played one minute but delivered an elite inbound pass to secure the win. Forget the box score—Ingles' contribution will go down in the annals of Wolves history as the "One-Minute Masterpiece."
In the end, the Wolves walked away with a two-point win,
the Heat walked away with an expensive lesson in complaining, and NBA Twitter walked away with another round of conspiracy theories about small-market teams never getting calls. Classic.
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