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Blake Griffin was the first player selected in the NBA draft (by the L.A. Clippers), and already people are grading each team's draft. The one grade many gay men can agree on: Minnesota's selection...

If there is one team in the NBA that has mirrored the Sixers' Andrew Bynum-less experience thus far, you'd pick the Bulls first. But second would probably be the Timberwolves, who missed Kevin Love...

Ricky Rubio signed with the adidas shoe company last week with contract terms that will likely make him the brand's third-highest compensated NBA player, trailing only Derrick Rose and Dwight Howard in that department.

Ricky Rubio's injury turned out to be a torn ACL, ending the season for the Minnesota Timberwolves rookie. It's only the latest in a slew of injuries for the state's top athletes.

The young Wolves host the Sixers in a battle of overachievers.