On NBA Today, Kendrick Perkins discusses the “nonsense” he’s seen from Karl-Anthony Towns and Anthony Edwards regarding postgame comments and the Minnesota Timberwolves’ need for a veteran voice in the locker room.
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No they should’ve never traded 4 gobert . I would’ve signed javelle McGee or Dwight Howard for rim protection. While keeping my perimeter defenders . They traded all of there defense for one player 🤦🏾♂️
Towns is super immature.
D'Angelo Russell is a net-negative contributor.
2 bigs are fine.
TRADE DBLO ASAP‼️‼️‼️
why they keep acting like its hasnt only been 10 games or less for every team lol this job gotta easy af
Bring Carmelo anthony to Minnesota
Breaking News!!!!!! Lakers Sux A@@…
If Edwards and Towns can really figure out how to play together, none of this stuff even matters, we're going to be a 50 plus win team, and I'm sorry but this falls on Chris Finch..
Every time it seems like this franchise is about to trend upward, it seems like upper management makes a huge move and frankly tries to fix things that are not really broken, we should have not traded Beverly, bad Tim, bad bad Tim…!!
DLO has to go, he’s been terrible.
Ant is playing by himself not to win games, he plays one on one street ball game and slow down the offense, Kat is sacrificing shots he's passing the ball a lot this year but I think he should be more aggressive and shoot more cause he's the only great shooter on the team most of the wolves players are below average shooters
Won’t happen, they have been on the same team for a few years. I’d rather trade kat and dlo
Won’t happen, they have been on the same team for a few years. I’d rather trade kat and dlo
Maxey is more efficient and smarter than Edwards, Maxey is doing what Edwards was supposed to do, but Ant's game is mediocre he plays too much iso ball, one on one street ball game and slow down the offense, he looks mediocre playing off the ball just standing and not moving, but coach finch is the one who needs to fix his game
Kat should sacrifice his stat to be KG of boston and and Ant will be the Paul Pierce of the Wolves. For the sake of the team.
I was in the camp that thought that we should have not signed Karl to a max this past offseason and let him walk.. since Tim opted against this, for the first time ever, I'm starting to feel a little bit sorry for Karl, but this is not Anthony Edward's fault, the state of Minnesota has struggled with racism, it has never really treated its professional athletes that well, it's not because of the cold, it's because of the climate, both literally and figuratively, Minnesota has not always been a tolerant place for people who may be or happen to identify as minorities, let's be honest, the secret is out now on Minnesota that its got a lot more problems than its let on, this has unfortunately manifested itself onto our NBA team, the Timberwolves, there has been insularity in the organization, there has been an unwillingness to open things up beyond regional, listen to the national media, all of it, the Timberwolves have thought that they can get away with it, with the provincial and parochial ways of this very very Midwestern culture that really is siphoned off from other Midwestern cities and just compounds the insularity, welcome to Minnesota and the Minnesota Timberwolves, welcome to my home state that I love and that I will always consider home, I am a Minnesotan and I have to take ownership and responsibility for this as well, welcome to we're going to lurch and latch onto Towns and treat him like he's the best thing since sliced bread, galvanize support around him and only him and leave everyone else out, including Wiggins, including Butler, including LaVine, including Derrick Rose…. I feel like Garrison Keillor in my own way commenting on this area, and then we are so unbelievably critical of players who frankly are outsiders, not from the region, yes we can accept Kirby Puckett, but literally the greatest player to ever grace the Timberwolves organization is that of Anthony Edwards, it's real obvious to see that he's going to be the next great player in this league, somehow half of our fan base is overlooking him, it's really really hard to comprehend how this is happening but half of the fan base is still attached to some idea that Towns can be our leader, I like Karl Anthony Towns, I really appreciate the fact that he has taken to this region despite himself not being from here and being a New Yorker essentially, well he's from somewhere close to the 6th borough if you can call it that, I know New Yorkers consider parts of the tri-state pejoratively which don't lie on the island of Manhattan, I consider Towns to be from Jersey obviously but he's a Yankees man, he has a New York spirit, I love that about Towns, but for some reason, he has not been able to demonstrate any level of leadership here, and he's quick to throw people under the bus for some strange reason and he seems to be very insecure playing around other elite players on his team, it's not just Edwards, there is a pattern developing here around Towns where somehow the best players end up leaving the organization, I don't want this to happen to Anthony Edwards, a lot of this doesn't have anything to do with him, the incident from a couple of months notwithstanding, what I do love about Edwards is that he owns up, he takes responsibility for things verbally, he shows an appreciation for his teammates consistently, he tries despite his wanting to shoot on every possession deliberately to try to display selfless acts of sportsmanship, he always talks about players on other teams positively, he has a lot of classy parts to him, and to me, a lot of Minnesotans are overlooking these qualities, a lot of Minnesotans are overlooking the fact that he's really quite a good three-point shooter for being as young as he is, shooting about 37% on the year and we're worried about him dunking? I don't know if there's anyone who has dunked as well as he has ever in the history of the NBA, he's already breaking records left and right by players that we consider to be in the NBA top five today, the fact that Anthony Edwards is so maligned by some of us Minnesotans is absolutely beyond me, but there is a divide and conquer going on, some Minnesotans have had issues with racism, something has gotten in between Edwards and Towns and I'm willing to give both of them the benefit of the doubt here that it's not them, it's the organization, it's Glenn Taylor, it all starts with Glenn Taylor and as Kevin Garnett once said, Glenn Taylor doesn't know s*** about basketball!!!
This was a horrible trade
Ramona has no clue what she's talking about. How'd she stay on tv this long?
The homophobe obviously dislikes the biggest softie in history of sports. Duh.
The media needs to stop asking those questions knowing it’s going to cause chemistry issues. And perk is a sucka for not calling it out
TRADE KAT HE IS GARBAGE AND TIMID
TRADE KAT HE IS GARBAGE AND TIMID
When it comes to KAT it’s ALWAYS someone else’s fault. Never him. Always someone else… dudes a clown. 🤦🏽♂️
KAT needs to go. He was and will always be a loser. That’s his mentality, all he does is pout and whine, he makes terrible decisions and is slow footed. They already have Rudy, time to trade KAT
Dumbest trade in the last 30 years easily. Gobert can’t score, or shoot. Traded everything for a guy that doesn’t help them at all. Kat needs to be a dominate center in the post not stand around and miss 3s all game 🙄
Move kat to Charlotte or sumn lol