Marko Jaric and Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima are collectively as blissful as "Real World" Parisa was to send Trisha packing this week.
"Yes, I’m happy about it, but I’m trying to focus on basketball right
now and I don’t want anything else to distract me or this team," said
Jaric.
 
 
Kelsie Smith/Pioneer Press and Kent Youngblood/Star Tribune preview tonight’s game against the Spurs.
 
 
As such, the
Spurs spent much of their trip northward trying to convince themselves
that, even without the best player in team history, the Timberwolves
still pack a bite.
They’ve settled on this line of reasoning:
"They don’t have
much to lose," Manu Ginobili said. "For those kind of teams, it’s very,
very important to beat a champion or a contender at home. We know that
they are going to be inspired."
 
 
Al Jefferson is a young player with an old-school game. In a league
filled with power forwards who patrol the three-point line, Jefferson
prefers the post. And in that way he sees San Antonio star Tim Duncan
as a kindred spirit, a fellow player who lets his feet do the talking.
It’s Duncan’s post moves that have kept Jefferson glued to TV sets as
far back as high school, watching and studying Duncan’s game,
patterning his own after it. 
 
 
Perhaps the most interesting innovation will be unveiled Tuesday at
halftime of the Timberwolves game against the Lakers at Target Center.
Rather than going to commercial after the second quarter, FSN North
will remain at the venue, breaking away for only two minutes of ads
just before the third quarter. There is usually about 12 minutes of
commercial inventory fit into the 15-minute break.