{"id":228974,"date":"2007-09-24T00:16:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T00:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2007\/09\/24\/wolves-updates-924\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T00:16:11","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T00:16:11","slug":"wolves-updates-924","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-updates-924\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves Updates 9\/24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 24th birthday to Randy Foye.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nba\/columns\/story?columnist=stein_marc&amp;page=WestOffseason07&amp;campaign=rss&amp;source=NBAHeadlines\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Stein\/ESPN<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nba\/columns\/story?columnist=stein_marc&amp;page=WestOffseason07&amp;campaign=rss&amp;source=NBAHeadlines\" target=\"_blank\">  <\/a> ranks the Wolves last among Western Conference teams in terms of offseason moves.\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n<i>1. They waited at least a year too long to trade Kevin Garnett.<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<i>2.<br \/>\nOwner Glen Taylor should have used his considerable financial might to<br \/>\nclean house two or three years ago and then go outside the Wolves&#8217;<br \/>\nsphere to find a new front-office chief from a successful franchise,<br \/>\nlong before the Wolves wound up in a crisis summer like this one.<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<i>3.<br \/>\nWhen they finally did trade KG, they got back five players and two<br \/>\nfuture first-round picks &#8230; but only one out of the seven players (<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nba\/players\/profile?statsId=3832\">Al Jefferson<\/a>) would automatically command minutes with a quality team. The rest are all maybes.<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoopsworld.com\/article_23407.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Hoopsworld <\/a>lists the Wolves as one of the Western Conference &quot;bubble teams.&quot;&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<i><br \/>\nIn order for this young team to achieve a playoff berth, head coach Randy Wittman must determine a consistent rotation and individual player roles as soon as possible. If Minnesota begins the year with a slow start out of the gate, that may already be too late. Seemingly, the younger players this team has acquired all seem willing to step up or step back and accept whatever role they are given.&nbsp;<\/i>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div>\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 24th birthday to Randy Foye.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Marc Stein\/ESPN ranks the Wolves last among Western Conference teams in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[605037453],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.2 (Yoast SEO v23.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wolves Updates 9\/24 - The Sports Daily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-updates-924\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wolves Updates 9\/24\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-updates-924\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Sports Daily\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-09-24T00:16:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sportsdailytsd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alan Draper\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-updates-924\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-updates-924\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alan Draper\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#\/schema\/person\/2c8aadde2571800d0de74323730df7b5\"},\"headline\":\"Wolves Updates 9\/24\",\"datePublished\":\"2007-09-24T00:16:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2007-09-24T00:16:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-updates-924\/\"},\"wordCount\":219,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"TWolves Blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2007\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-updates-924\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-updates-924\/\",\"name\":\"Wolves Updates 9\/24 - 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