Randy Foye News

Somebody in the Timberwolves' locker room before Sunday's 116-93 loss wondered why Portland is called Rip City, the longtime catch phrase the Trail Blazers are using this time around to celebrate their 40th year.

The Portland Trail Blazers' new lineup worked wonders in a win their last time out, and they plan on keeping Andre Miller in their starting five.

In less than a week, Oleksiy Pecherov has gone through a surprising transformation in the Timberwolves' offense - from unnoticed to almost irreplaceable.

Ray Richardson of the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports : Timberwolves forward Oleksiy Pecherov has become the team's most improved player, and he's done it in the past three games.

Boston's Marquis Daniels took a shot over the defense of the Timberwolves' Corey Brewer in the second half Wednesday night.

Photo by photomastergreg The Timberwolves have been playing for nigh on a week now and there are very few surprises to report.

In three games, Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas has managed to shift discussion from his surgically repaired left knee to whether he might return to All-Star status.

If a major-league sports franchise in a sizable metropolitan area began play and no one was paying attention, would it make a basket? Trees falling in unknown forests make more noise than the Timberwolves are making as they open their 21st season tonight against the New Jersey Nets at Target Center.

The Timberwolves had an okay preseason, already plagued with injuries to key players.

The Washington Wizards certainly don't want to fall into the habit of being without Gilbert Arenas for an extended period of time again. But with Arenas sidelined with flu-like symptoms for consecutive games against Atlanta and Philadelphia, the Wizards got a small sample of what life would be like with Randy Foye filling in and running the show -- and it was a bit of a mixed bag.

Foye had an uneven game in his first start at point guard on Monday against the Hawks, as he led the Wizards with 19 points and six assists during a 113-95 loss. But he seemed uncomfortable finding a balance between getting his own shots and setting up his teammates, with the offense at times sputtering with his indecision.

Eight days before the Timberwolves kick off their 21st season at home against New Jersey, Minnesota tonight will play a preseason game in Denver with its two biggest pieces facing uncertain futures -- short and long term -- because of injuries.

It appears the Timberwolves are making progress in Kurt Rambis' classroom. The first-year Wolves coach often has said his top priority this season is to educate players on his system and what it takes to become an NBA contender.

Timberwolves forward Ryan Gomes had a wide-eyed look on his face when he saw Al Jefferson do something he never had seen his teammate do.

In 1997, I was quite stoked for the release of the film "A Life Less Ordinary." So much so that I attended the first matinee showing of it's opening weekend.

The remade Timberwolves made their Target Center debut this season with Friday night's preseason game against Toronto.

For Randy Foye , training camp might as well have been dubbed "The Great Point Guard Experiment, Part II." The new Wizard, whom current Wizards assistant coach Randy Wittman tried to make a point guard when he was coaching the Minnesota Timberwolves , spent nearly every drill, scrimmage and set initiating the offense on the ball during the ...

The NBA's rule of limiting teams to one scrimmage per day during training camp is having an impact on the Timberwolves and first-year coach Kurt Rambis.

Aren't you glad they didn't go after Rubio? - Aren't you glad they didn't go after Rubio? While at the time it may have seemed foolish, now that Ricky Rubio has opted to remain in Europe for at least two more years, seems that the Wizards got the best of that deal.

With the Timberwolves completely reformed this year, you have to wonder how they're going to compare to 08-09. Well it's fair to make comparisons between last year and this year on a would you rather scale.

This isn't exactly a homecoming for Randy Foye, but the Washington Wizards' latest back-court addition joked that if he were any closer, he'd be in the backyard of his home in New Jersey.

After Foye spent the first three years of his career in Minnesota, a trade with the Wizards the day before the NBA draft in June brought him within a three-hour drive of Newark -- the city in which he was orphaned before the first grade but which provided him with a support system to overcome those hardships.