Our All Time Top 50 Minnesota Timberwolves have been revised to reflect the 2023-24 Season
Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists and consistently look to update them when necessary and based on necessity. As such, we are delighted to present our post-2023-24 revision of our top 50 Minnesota Timberwolves.
As for all of our top 50 players in basketball, we look at the following:
1. Advanced Statistics.
2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Basketball Association.
3. Playoff accomplishments.
4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles that are not reflected in a stat sheet.
Last year, the Timberwolves had a nice run with their best team in years. This has resulted in three new entrants and two elevations.
As always, we present our top five, which saw no changes:
1. Kevin Garnett
2. Karl-Anthony Towns
3. Kevin Love
4. Wally Szczerbiak
5. Terrell Brandon
You can find the entire list here.
KAT remains at #2 from last year, and the chasm between him in Garnett remains large, though the gap between Towns and #3 also continues to grow.
Anthony Edwards, who rocketed from #18 to #9. He is on a two-year streak of All-Stars and was a Second Team All-NBA Selection last year.
It may only have been two years, and after year one, it looked like a mistake, but last season, Rudy Gobert won the Defensive Player of the Year Award. On a team like Minnesota, which has never been to the Finals, has had high turnover, and is an expansion team, a year like Gobert’s 2023-24 can jump a player from #40 to #14, which is what we have here.
Another big man, Naz Reid, climbed eleven spots to #16.
Jaden McDaniels is the first of three new entries. The Forward debuts at #32.
Veteran Point Guard Mike Conley Jr. makes his first appearance at #33.
Another veteran, Kyle Anderson, who is now with Utah, enters at #34.
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Our All-Time Top 50 Minnesota Timberwolves have been revised to reflect the 2022-23 Season
Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity. As such, we are very happy to present our post 2022/23 revision of our top 50 Minnesota Timberwolves.
As for all of our top 50 players in basketball we look at the following:
1. Advanced Statistics.
2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Basketball Association.
3. Playoff accomplishments.
4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.
Last year, Minnesota did not take the step they thought after going all in on Rudy Gobert. Can they make a leap this year? Either way, last year did see Gobert make the list, and see one player make a sizable jump.
As always, we present our top five, which was not affected by the last season:
3. Kevin Love
You can find the entire list here.
Towns remains at #2, and will take a long time, if at all possible) to supplant Garnett for the top spot.
Anthony Edwards, who is ascending to NBA top ten status, vaulted to #18 from #33.
D’Angelo Russell, who was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers late in the year, advanced to #22 from #29.
Center, Naz Reid, continued his climb, moving to #27 from #34.
Rudy Gobert, whose arrival could be debated for decades to come, is still good enough to be here even with one year of service, even if it was down by his Utah standards. Remember, the Timberwolves have not been around long, have never been great, and basketball fields small rosters. This rank is warranted.
We welcome your input and comments and as always, we thank you for your support.
Our All-Time Top 50 Cleveland Cavaliers have been revised to reflect the 2022-23 Season
Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity. As such, we are very happy to present our post 2022/23 revision of our top 50 Cleveland Cavaliers.
As for all of our top 50 players in basketball we look at the following:
1. Advanced Statistics.
2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Basketball Association.
3. Playoff accomplishments.
4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.
Last year, Cleveland returned to the playoffs after a significant drought, and this generated some list fluctuation with two new entrants.
As always, we present our top five, which was not affected by the last season:
1. LeBron James
2. Mark Price
5. Larry Nance
You can find the entire list here.
Kevin Love, who was traded during the year to Miami, was unable to rise from his #8 spot.
Jarrett Allen shot up to #22 from #35.
Another significant jump came from Darius Garland, who advanced from #49 to #36.
Donovan Mitchell, who just had the best season of his career, debuted at #40.
The second new player is Evan Mobley, who comes in at #45.
We welcome your input and comments and as always, we thank you for your support.
Our All-Time Top 50 Minnesota Timberwolves have been revised
Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity. As such, we are very happy to present our third revision of our top 50 Minnesota Timberwolves of all-time.
As for all of our top 50 players in basketball we look at the following:
1. Advanced Statistics.
2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in the NBA.
3. Playoff accomplishments.
4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.
This one went a complete overhaul, which was reflected in our top five as seen below.
The complete list can be found here, but as always, we announce our top five in this article. They are:
3. Kevin Love
Our top five remains the same, but there has been tinkering throughout the rest of the list.
We welcome your input and commentsand as always, we thank you for your support.
Our Top 50 Cleveland Cavaliers are now up
Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team. We have a new one to unveil today, that of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The Cavaliers were formed in 1970, but it was not until they drafted LeBron James. They would reach the NBA Finals for the first time in 2007, but James grew frustrated and took his talents to the Miami Heat. He returned and brought Kevin Love with him and joined a team that had Kyrie Irving. The Cavaliers would win the Eastern Conference four years in a row (2015-18), and they would win their first and only championship in 2016.
As for all of our top 50 players in basketball we look at the following:
1. Advanced Statistics.
2. Traditional statistics and how they finished in the NBA.
3. Playoff accomplishments.
4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.
Remember, this is ONLY based on what a player does on that particular team and not what he accomplished elsewhere and also note that we have placed an increased importance on the first two categories.
This list is updated up until the end of the 2018-19 Season.
The complete list can be found here,but as always we announce our top five in this article. They are:
1. LeBron James
2. Mark Price
5. Larry Nance
We will continue our adjustments on our existing lists and will continue developing our new lists.
Look for or All-Time Top 50 Edmonton Oilers coming next!
As always we thank you for your support.
8. Kevin Love
Kevin Love would spend the first six years of his career with the Minnesota Timberwolves where he was the team's star, but the T-Wolves lacked much else, and he never made the playoffs while he played there. LeBron James would return to Cleveland, and the Cavs would orchestrate a trade to bring Love to the Cavaliers to join him and Kyrie Irving. Love was now the number three option on a superteam, but like many stars, he had to take time to adjust, and eventually, he found his footing. The triumvirate would take Cleveland to their first NBA Championship in 2016.
#23. Kevin Love: Miami Heat, #4 Power Forwards
Pre-2019-20 Rank: #18, Pre-2020-21 Rank #17, Pre-2021-22 Rank: #19, Pre-2022-23 Rank: #20, Pre-2023-24 Rank: #23.
*Positional Notes: Love has also played a significant time at Center.
*Peak Period: From 2010-11 to 2016-17.
It is safe to say that Kevin Love is nearing the end of his career and has little time to add more accolades to his Hall of Fame resume, so if that is in fact the case, has he done enough?
Love was a three-time All-Star and twice a Second Team All-NBA player in Minnesota and was brought in to be the third piece to LeBron and Kyrie in Cleveland. It worked, as the Cavaliers won the Title in 2016, but it also exposed Love as somewhere between role player and All-Star. His ceiling might be post-career acknowledgments from Minnesota and/or Cleveland.
The Top 50 Minnesota Timberwolves of All-Time are now up
As many of you are aware, we are in the process of working on another series of lists here at Notinhalloffame.com. That is the Top 50 players of every major North American Franchise. As such, we are proud to present our second team (all of which whose order has been chosen at random), the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Granted, we know that Minnesota has not been an overly successful franchise, but the process means that we have to do them all!
Clearly the number one choice is obvious, the recently retired Kevin Garnett, but the fun part is watching this list change with it being a young franchise.
We will give you the top five now for those of you interested:
1. Kevin Garnett
2. Kevin Love
3. Wally Szczerbiak
4. Terrell Brandon
5. Tom Gugliotta
Who are the rest?
You can find them here:
We will be unveiling another franchise from Minnesota, the Minnesota Vikings.
As always, we here at Notinhalloffame.com thank you for your support!
3. Kevin Love
