Blake Griffin has understandably been elected as a starter at forward for his stats and flashy dunking abilities. Unlike Tanguy, however, he cannot defy time itself by being 21 and 27 at the same time. It's results like these that make somebody question fan voting.

According to The Basketball Jones' Trey Kirby, Kevin Love has supplanted Pau Gasol as the NBA King of the Crazy Face. The proof is in the pictures.

With this awkward commercial, Kevin Love's 2012 Coat Drive has begun.

No, it's not a love child or a body he buried in a shallow grave. It's that the team defense is markedly better when he is on the court.

All five writers are buying the hot start of the Timberwolves and are optimistic about their future.

His pick for 2011-2012 MVP is the Minny 2012 draft pick. Regardless of whether he's talking about it as a piece of the CP3 trade, it's yet more piling on from a noted Wolves-basher.

The guys at BDL predict an entertaining if low-win season from Minny's ragtag team of lovable losers.

The producer of Canis Hoopus' Official Beer is looking to expand. I don't know about you, but a huge Surly "destination brewery" expansion gets me pretty excited.

P.S. - Has anyone tried any good new beers they'd like to recommend?

Kelly Dwyer says that not only should Love should not only be on the All-Star team, he has performed well enough this season to start on it.

Kevin's sometimes funny, sometimes controversial, always interesting twitter account is back to being active just in time to ring in the New Year.

Lee Jenkins' profile of Kevin Love in the latest issue of Sports Illustrated.

I won't even begin to ask what he's doing here.

Kelly Dwyer ranks the top 10 power forwards in the league, with some high praise for our own Kevin Love at #10.

Michael Beasley was also featured in the preceding power forward rankings at #30.

"Bookmark this post -- it won't follow every twist and turn, but it will provide an evolving one-stop synopsis, rich with links, to the important meetings, developments and signings of the summer of 2010. "

Kevin Pelton reveals his closest statistical comparisons for the top 60 players in the draft.

Givony notes that Derrick Favors could fit nicely alongside the T-Wolves bigs. He also mentions that this is a great year to have multiple picks and that there are many potential steals in the 11-30+ range.

Truehoop discusses the teams and players who figure to be at the forefront in the upcoming free agency bonanza, and which teams will be able to offer the max. Minnesota is filed under the "Need some creative accounting" section.

Dwyer laments the paths that these two very different careers have taken, and how their careers are bound by their lack of opportunity.

Bill unveils his yearly list of the top 40 players in trade value.

Maybe Love and Jefferson could learn a thing or two about post defense from another "Neither tall nor especially quick or springy" player like Malik Rose.

There's at least one basketball championship contender in Minnesota.

(ED NOTE: It should also be noted that Feb 1st is the first day WNBA teams can sign free agents. Go Lynx!)

The Painted Area's M. Haubs offers a scouting report on Ricky Rubio.

A quick look at Corey's improved shooting over at ESPN's Truehoop blog.

..."someone calls up with a deal that’s so preposterously one-sided, we'd have to do it." - David Kahn

Jonny discusses the team's struggles as well as Rambis, Love, and Rubio.

David answers quite a few Wolves-related questions in this draft. Nothing especially informative, but entertaining nonetheless.

Author Anthony Macri dissects Minnesota's use of the triangle for Basketball Prospectus.

Kurt Rambis hopes lessons in triangle offense pay off for Wolves