The Minnesota Timberwolves today announced that the team and Verizon have partnered to provide Wolves fans with a commercial free broadcast of the Timberwolves vs. Oklahoma City Thunder game this Sunday (Feb. 21) at 6 p.m. on KSTC-TV Channel 45. Not only will this be the first-ever Wolves commercial-free broadcast, but it will also be a first-of-its-kind, live fan-interactive broadcast featuring unprecedented fan involvement via various media and social networking platforms.

Throughout the game, timberwolves.com will host “Fan Forum” – live web chats in which Minnesota fans will have the ability to ask questions to Wolves owner Glen Taylor and President of Basketball Operations David Kahn. Both will share their thoughts on the current season as well as what they see for the club in the future. Fans should log on to timberwolves.com to participate in the chats, which will be integrated into the broadcast.

 

Minnesota is doing something out of control during this Sunday’s broadcast of the Thunder game.

It’s like an internet-savvy fans’ dream. First, the broadcast is commercial free. Instead of advertisements, they promise behind-the-scenes footage, and other fun stuff. Can you imagine that!

 

Maybe a catchy nickname will help Love’s popularity, so you know what to do.

Whoever has the best nickname will win a dope prize from the SLAM vault and get their name in Trash Talk next month.

 

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From Benjamin Polk/City Pages: Kurt Rambis: “We were awful.” Timberwolves flounder on the road

 

From Kelly Dwyer/Ball Don’t Lie: There are no action shots of Darko Milicic, or Brian Cardinal
But I’m a little bummed. Mainly because it didn’t have to be like this. Because both of these guys can play, and in a perfect world, they would have a pretty sound niche in this league. And as it stands, there’s a good chance we won’t see either suit up in the NBA again.

 

The one potential snag is that there is no guarantee that Milicic will report to Minnesota. As recently as Tuesday, the veteran center was hopeful that the Knicks would release him so he could return to his native Serbia. Instead, he is headed to NBA Siberia.

“It’s a disappointment,” Marc Cornstein said. “This is the final chapter of a bad story for him in New York.