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Game #61, Road Game #30: LA Lakers 110, Minnesota 90

Game #62, Road Game #31: Portland 95, Minnesota 93

Season Record: 18-44

1. The Future Isn't Now

Longtime readers know that I prefer to concentrate on the games being played on the court more than in the executive offices and rumor mills. And points two and three in this trey will get to that, because the rest is just sideshow anticipation.

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Game #56, Road Game #29: Toronto 118, Minnesota 110

Game #57, Home Game #28: Minnesota 103, Utah 120

Season Record: 17-40

1. Worn Down, Then Out

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Game # 32, Home Game #16: Minnesota 115, Golden State 108

Game #33, Road Game #17: Chicago 92, Minnesota 102

Season Record: 8-25

1. What's Happening

Note: I know I said I'd have a Wolves recap for you Monday, but with all the playoff ball consuming my time (not to mention other writing projects--my editors know what they are) I now realize I'm never going to get this done unless I break it into parts.

There is another kind of sleep,

We are talking in it now.

As children we walked in it, a mile to school,

And dreamed we dreamed we dreamed.

--James Galvin, from "Hematite Lake"

Maris Gomes was very young when he went to sea for the first time, and not much older --still much too young-- when the boat on which he was working was capsized in a storm and

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Game #43, Home Game #20: New Jersey 95, Minnesota 98

Season record: 8-35

1. Carried By Jefferson

Road Game #4: Minnesota 93, Denver 99

Season Record 1-9

1. Time To Get Angry