We liked this new guy, Anthony Edwards, the Ant Man — the franchise’s most popular player since Garnett, but shaking off a quick playoff elimination for the Woofies was the equivalent of a mosquito bite on our sports scene.
Ant was great, the defense was great with Rudy Gobert in his second season in Minnesota. The Wolves won 56 games, swept Phoenix (with Kevin Durant and Devin Booker), came back down from 3-2 to bounce The Joker and Denver, and reached the Western Conference finals.
The Timberwolves, our tame puppies, were now big dogs in the sports market — No. 2 to the Vikings.
KAT was traded, and received greater accolades on the way out of town than in nine seasons here, and that made the start of this season more intriguing.
The Vikings are riding high, the Wild are a surprise, the Lynx almost won a title, the Gophers have a chance to upset Penn State on Saturday, and guess what?