I've been sitting on this news for months now, and it's relief to finally be able to share it with you.

My29 (WFTC) will carry 25 over-the-air broadcasts for the Timberwolves next year!

FREE, FREE, FREE basketball on TV!

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Our society is lazy.

We like to boil things down to very, very simple takes.

Good vs Bad.

Black vs White.

We are not fans of gray.

I've been making a more concerted effort to engage in sports discussion that leaves room for nuanced evaluation and complexity.

But when it comes to advanced stats, I can't resist the urge.

I want one stat to rule them all, one stat to throw in people's faces when arguing why my preferred player is better than their preferred player.

But which one should it be?

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Yes, it's yet another "Who Says No?" trade proposal!

The Lakers and Magic are struggling and a Dwight deal is looking even more likely.

David Kahn loves helping to facilitate superstar trades while skimming off the top.

It's not too late for that "singular move" he promised us.

Details after the jump.

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I'm happy to announce that FOX 9 has secured the live-streaming rights to Michael Beasley's charity game this Friday.  If you're like me (a hopeless diehard who is becoming sweaty and getting the shakes from the absence of NBA action) this comes as a welcome relieft.  

Tickets for the event are relatively pricey.  So, having an option to watch it for free online is good news.

Sure, it will be a sloppy, poor man's All Star Game that doesn't come anywhere close to resembling an actual NBA game.  However, I'll take it.

You can watch it at myfox9.com.  I'll try to provide more details as it approaches.

Maybe we'll even figure out why the heck it's taking place at Osseo High School.

Is anybody here planning to attend?  I'll be helping out on the production side of things.

Is this him breaking news of the Wolves hiring Adelman?

I would have to say yes.

Let's wait for official confirmation before declaring ourselves some sort of miraculous off-season winner, but right now my irrational exuberance is in overdrive.

If this is true, and Adelman is our new coach, what does that mean for the lockout, and our prognosis for an upcoming Timberwolves season?

I say it means the lockout comes to an end in the next 10 days, and that the Wolves are looking at a possible 35-40 win season.

Tweet from Woj at Yahoo- Rick Adelman is out as Rockets coach, as @Jonathan_Feigen reports. "Mutual parting," source says. There was a gulf with owner and Adelman.

Uh... I'll take some Rick Adelman.  He'll take his and beat yours, then he'll take yours and beat his.

PLEASE, GLEN TAYLOR.

Fire Rambis AND Kahn, hire a GM Adelman would coach for (one of Morey's apprentices) and set this ship straight.

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Paul Charchian is scheduled to interview Kahn on KFAN this afternoon.

He's asked me if I have any questions I'd like him to ask Kahn.  I'll post the ones I've already given him, but I'd like to hear anything you might have.

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I engaged in a heated debate with my buddy (and fellow season ticket holder) during last night's game.

It was a welcome distraction from the travesty on the court, but got a little out of control in the volume and emotion of it.

Despite booth of us booing the selection of Flynn on draft night, he is now a Flynn Apologist.

He's been mocking my support of Sebastian Telfair all year long.  I told him last night that Telfair has played better than Flynn this year, which he again mocked.

When I criticize Flynn, he claims I'm blindly following Stop N Pop's holy crusade against him.

I brought up how Ty Lawson is better than Flynn, and he tried to argue that it wasn't true because "Lawson isn't even a starter."

Finally, he argued that my evaluation of Flynn is invalid since I also want to trade a late first round pick for Anthony Randolph, which he finds ridiculous.

I asked him for some statistical evidence that backs up his belief in the quality of Flynn's play.  He said he'd get back to me.

While I wait for that, I thought I'd put together my own analysis.  Let's break it down.

Here is a quick, simple comparison of 2010/11 stats for the three point guards, per 36 minutes.

Apologies in advance for any formatting issues.

Takeaways: Lawson has by far the best field goal percentage, followed by Telfair, then Flynn.

Jonny is the better free throw shooter, by a considerable margin.

Lawson has the best average from 3, although Telfair is close behind.  Flynn is shooting almost 10 percentage points worse than Lawson this season.

Assists are fairly even.

Flynn is averaging 2 more turnovers/36m than Lawson, almost 1 more than Telfair.

Those are the simple stats.  What do the advanced stats tell us?

Here's Flynn the past 2 years.

Lawson the past 2 years.

Telfair this year/career.

The simplest measure of the three players is PER, where Lawson dominates, finishing well ahead of last year's pre-injury Jonny, and a full 10 points ahead of him this year.  Flynn PER this year is bottom of the barrel stuff.  Not Eddy Curry bad, but still.  Telfair is ahead of him by 4 points this year.

Lawson's true shooting percentage and effective field goal percentage have been far above Flynn's both years, as well as his total rebound percentage.

Flynn did compare to Lawson in assist percentage, but his turnover percentage was two points higher last year, and is 12 points higher this year.  Killer.

Lawson defensive rating is slightly better, and he absolutely destroys Flynn in the win shares department.

I rest my case on Lawson vs Flynn.

Has Telfair been better this year than Flynn?  He's 4 points higher in PER, has a better TS% and eFG%, significantly lower TOV%, has a much better offensive rating and unlike Flynn, is in the positive in terms of win shares.

I think I can rest my case on Flynn vs Telfair.

Finally, we come to Anthony Randolph.  Is he worth a late first round pick?  After all, he's been buried on Mike D'Antoni's bench.  Doesn't that mean he sucks?  Well, we have a prime example starting at center of a serviceable NBA player being buried on a D'Antoni bench.  Coach Mike is Coach Mike, and if he doesn't like you, or thinks you don't fit his very specific system, you will not get burn.

So, what was Anthony Randolph before he moved to New York, and how does that compare to another recent Wolves late first round pick, as well as Flynn?

As a rookie, he had a PER of 16.9, increasing to 18.7 in his second year before suffering an injury after 33 games.

His win shares have been 1.6 and 1.5, with WS/48 of 0.069 and 0.098.

Compare that to Flynn's PER of 13.0 and 6.5, as well as win shares of 0.1 and -0.9, with WS/48 of 0.002 and -0.077.

Ouch.

A comparison with recent late first round picks by the Wolves of Wayne Ellington and Lazar Hayward?

Wayne (who I actually like) has PERs of 9.6 and 9.8, win shares of 0.4 and 0.3 and WS/48 of 0.014 and 0.020.  Those numbers are actually pretty decent for a late first round pick, but nowhere near what Randolph did in his first 2 years.

In his first year, with limited minutes on an awful team, Hayward has a PER of 7.4, win share of 0.0 and a WS/48 of -0.003.  Not so good.

Anthony Randolph versus Flynn/a late first round pick by David Kahn?

I rest my case.

Here is my final thought.  Throw all the basic and advanced stats aside.  Here is my favorite Flynn anecdote.

The Wolves are playing the Denver Nuggets.  Kevin Love is 5 for 5 from 3 point range.  He runs pick and roll with Jonny, who draws Love's defender, along with his own towards the basket, leaving Love wide open.

What play does Jonny make?  Throw it back to the wide open, red hot 3 point shooter?  No.  Jonny chose to dribble further into traffic, jump in the air, realize his shot would be blocked, then wildly throw the ball away for a turnover.

That, in my mind, is the snapshot of Jonny Flynn.  He fails to make the play that any player with an even below average basketball IQ should make.  I have a below average basketball IQ, and I saw the right decision, right away.  As soon as Love went to make the screen, I thought "I hope they go with Jonny so he can kick it back out for another 3."  Nope.

But, what about you?  Are you with me?  Or, am I a crazed, lone disciple of Stop N Pop following him blindly down the Jonny Flynn Disparagement Trail?

Love him or hate him, if David Kahn has shown one thing, it's that he knows how to be opportunistic.

And, we have a real opportunity to be facilitator in the Carmelo Sweepstakes.

Will Kahn strike again?

It sounds like the Knicks want Luke.

But, if we give him up, we're stuck with the clueless Flynn for the rest of the year.

What is REALLY going to be our PG situation when Rubio gets here?

Wouldn't it be nice to have an upper echelon veteran to mentor him?

Wouldn't it be nice to have a veteran who can mentor all our young guys, period?

Did that player just scorch us last night and carry his team to an improbable (or completely predicatable) victory?

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CHers,

Two of the most entertaining games of the last 6 years (which happened to occur within 5 days of each other) weren't even on TV for most people to view.

First the epic 31-31, come from behind win over the Knicks.

Then, the Beasley Clipper Beater.

Well, I have good news.

In case you hadn't heard, Friday's game against the Lakers is on TV, and you don't even need to be forking big bucks over to cable or satellite to see it.

All you need is a good pair of (digital) bunny ears that bring in MY 29.

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The Timberwolves were kind enough to invite a handful of season ticket holders (including myself and Tim Allen) to attend Media Day and interview some of the players from the fan perspective.

Now, some random notes, along with links to some of the videos I shot.

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I've been invited to attend Wolves Media Day as a season ticket holder and social media maven and "report" on what goes on.  Apparently we'll have access to the players.  Any suggestions on questions to ask?
Are any of you going to be there?

I have to say, this continues the Timberwolves' admirable trend of openness and access to fans.

I'm trying to come up with a different angle of documenting the day than what most others will take.

Let  me know if you have any ideas.

The standoff between the Memphis Grizzlies and Xavier Henry continues.

http://realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/68351/20100725/standoff_between_grizzlies_henry_continues/

I liked him before the draft, and I still think he'd be a good fit for the team the Wolves are building.

Let's make a play for him.  It's a buy-low situation, as Memphis officially has a problem on their hands.  Their owner is being pennywise and pound-foolish (after the Rudy Gay contract.)  Seriously.  You're going to give Rudy Gay all that money, but you won't sign your first round pick to the standard rookie deal?

Something like 95% of rookies get the 120% or rookie scale that is allowed.

The #12 pick isn't going to get that?

Here's what I think we should offer.

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Well, there go our dreams of Josh Childress.

From Twitter...

WojYahooNBA     The Suns have agreed to sign-and-trade with Atlanta for Josh Childress and will give him a five-year, $34 million contract, a source tells Yahoo.

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There are rumblings that we have a deal in place we can do on July 8th that would free up the needed cap space for us to sign David Lee outright.

Hoopsworld apparently had a story, although the link I was provided no longer works.

So, let's pretend this is true.

What are the realistic possibilities that would make this happen?

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Draft Express is tweeting that we've offered Jefferson, 16 and 23 to Detroit for Prince, 7 and Wilcox.

www.draftexpress.com

That sounds about right to me.  They say they don't know if Detroit would do it.

Here's why I'm for it.

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I just got back from a Season Ticket Holder meet and greet with Kahn and a sit-in on the last workout with Luke Babbitt and scrubs.

I know the Wolves have asked not to blog about "insider" info share in these meetings, so I'm going to refrain from speaking on several issues, but here is what I think they'd be comfortable with me sharing.

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Here is how we end up with #3, #4 and #10.

We would grab some combination of Turner/Favors/Cousins/Johnson with the first two, and then use #10 to get a complimentary player or trade for Randolph. 4 team trade.

Jefferson to Dallas.

Dampier's team option, Calathes, Beaubois #16 pick and Pekovic to New Jersey.

Devin Harris #23 pick and Gomes team option to Indiana.

The #3 and #10 pick, Keeyon Dooling, Kris Humphries and Troy Murphy to Minnesota.

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Reports are coming out that New Jersey turned down a trade offer of Michael Beasley for Keeyon Dooling.

REALGM.COM

KEEYON DOOLING!

Apparently, Beasley trade value (and rep?) is completely in the crapper.

What would you give up to take a flyer on the former #2 pick?

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I'm helping put together a proposal to get the broadcast rights to the Wolves for one of the TV stations I work for.  My GM is on board with the move, but her bosses in New York are QUITE pessimistic about the chances of the Wolves being worth watching in the next few years.

I consider myself a realistic optimist, and I have my own list of reasons why I think they are on the upswing.  But, I'd like to crowd-source with my fellow fans to make sure I'm not missing anything.

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Let's pretend that Kahn really did only draft Flynn with the hopes of trading up for Evans last year.

Let's pretend the Wolves have come to realize Flynn is a poor fit for the system they want to run.

Let's pretend Jonny didn't totally destroy his trade value this past season.

Who would trade for him, and what could we get in return?

I nominate Sacramento.

They supposedly had interest in him at the time of the draft.

Can they seriously be planning on Udrih as their PG of the future?

If Sacramento lands at pick #5, couldn't we package Flynn and Peckovic for the pick?  Is that too much to give up, or not enough?

I don't want to make a panic trade on a developing young point guard, but after John Wall there is a vacancy at the point guard position in this year's draft.  Doesn't Jonny have value in that scenario?

Hit me with better options, if they exist.

Reports are surfacing that the Lynx have traded for Lindsey Whalen.

My only question: What took so long?!

I'm now officially interested in the Minnesota Lynx.

Stop 'N Pop- you're the biggest Lynx fan I "know".  What are your thoughts?

How about everyone else?

Here is the report- http://www.theday.com/article/20100112/SPORT13/100119940/1047

It looks like it's the #1 pick and Renee Montgomery for the #2 pick and Whalen.