Winfield Close To A New Contract?
Sean Jensen (Pioneer Press) reports Minnesota Vikings cornerback Antoine Winfield may be close to a new contract extension. Winfield’s agent, Ashanti Webb, is coming to Minnesota to close the deal. Winfield, 32, is in the final year of his six-year $34.8 million contract. The terms of the deal are not known. We speculate the deal [...]
Rubio Does Not Plan To Return To DKV Joventut
The Associated Press reports point guard Ricky Rubio is not optimistic about returning to his Spanish team, DKV Joventut. Whether or not he can make it to the NBA this year, he plans on playing elsewhere for a “winning team”. Spanish basketball clubs Real Madrid and Barcelona are both interested in signing Rubio if he [...]
Crede To See Specialist In LA
Minnesota Twins third baseman Joe Crede will get his sore shoulder examined by specialist Lewis Yocum on Thursday morning in Southern California before the team starts a series against the LA Angels. The Twins want to see the extent of the injury and make sure there are no major structural damage. Twins manager Ron Gardenhire [...]
Rubio Told The Timberwolves He’ll Play For Them
Charley Walters (Pioneer Press) reports point guard Ricky Rubio told the Minnesota Timberwolves shortly after the draft that he is prepared to play in Minnesota next season if he and his agent can change the buyout with his Spanish DKV Joventut team. This report confirms a previous report from Spanish media saying that Rubio accepts [...]
State Judge To Rule By Aug. 7
Steve Karnowski (AP) reports the Minnesota state judge is set to rule by Aug. 7 whether to put on hold a lawsuit by Minnesota Vikings Kevin Williams and Pat Williams. This is not the only hearing that is scheduled for the Williams’es, as the federal 8th Circuit Court of Appeals considers other issues in the [...]
Richardson Won’t Stay Long?
Charley Walters (Pioneer Press) does not expect recently acquired guard Quentin Richardson to stay on the Minnesota Timberwolve’s roster for very long. Walters expects the team to trade him to clear even more salary cap space, presumably by packaging his player-value with other contracts on the team. The trade that acquired Richardson helped shed point [...]
Love Asked To Tweet More?
As we all know, Minnesota Timberwolves’ power forward Kevin Love is an avid fan of Twitter. We have word that the guys upstairs in the Timberwolves’ front office are telling Love to tweet as often and as much as he wants. Why, you may ask? Attendance has been at its all-time-low in recent years, basically [...]
Who Will Be The Nickel Back?
Mike Wobschall (Vikings.com Blog) wrote an interesting blog breaking down the nickel back position. Wobschall presumes the starting positions are locked in with cornerback’s Antoine Winfield and Cedric Griffin. Now after that, he expects a “hotly-contested training camp battle” for the third cornerback position. The “serious” contenders for the position look to be between conerback’s [...]
Flynn Named Rookie Of The Month
Minnesota Timberwolves’ 6th overall pick point guard Jonny Flynn has been named the NBA Summer League’s Rookie of The Month. In his five games for the Timberwolves’ summer league team, he averaged 15 points and over seven assists per game. Flynn has the same agent as Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James, and Flynn says he [...]
Wolves Trade Three For Cippers’ Richardson
The Minnesota Timberwolves acquired guard/forward Quentin Richardson from the Los Angeles Clippers for point guard Sebastian Telfair, and power forwards Mark Madsen and Craig Smith. The move is confirmed by both Madsen and Telfair on their Twitter accounts. Richardson will provide a veteran presence at the shooting guard position, which they were lacking ever since [...]
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