Previews of tonight’s game at San Antonio:
 
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Center Theo Ratliff remains in Atlanta, where he is rehabilitating his knee following arthroscopic surgery performed on Dec. 18. He has not played since the seventh game of the season, on Nov. 16. Wittman said he expects Ratliff will return sometime next week.
 
"We’ll have a better idea when he gets here and we see where he’s at," Wittman said about Ratliff’s possible return.
  
 
 
Doleac has played in just 11 games this season, but
he’s started five of them. He was asked how he has handled not playing
at all in a stretch of games only to be suddenly thrown into the
starting lineup.
 
Doleac started back-to-back games against the
Clippers and Portland but did not play in the previous three games
leading up to Friday night.
 
"That’s just part of the job," Doleac said…
 
 
  
RandBall on the Timberwolves dance team’s website.  
 
 
From the Wolves site:

The Minnesota Timberwolves FastBreak Foundation’s month-long WolvesCare
initiative continues next Monday, Jan. 14, at the second annual
"Cooking for a Cause" event. This year, Timberwolves players Michael
Doleac, Gerald Green, Sebastian Telfair and Antoine Walker, along with
team broadcaster Tom Hanneman, will welcome 40 children diagnosed with
diabetes to the WAY-COOL Cooking School (16544 W. 78th St., Eden
Prairie) from 1:30-3:30 p.m. for a lesson in diabetic-friendly cooking.