For the second year in a row, the Minnesota Timberwolves are in the Western Conference Finals. Last year, they were eliminated in five games by the Dallas Mavericks, who went on to lose to the eventual champion Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals.

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One player to watch in terms of the turnover problem is Julius Randle. He has stepped up in a big way during the playoffs, but he is turning the ball over 3.1 times per game. That is the most out of anyone on the Timberwolves. Anthony Edwards, the primary ball-handler for Minnesota, is turning the ball over 2.3 times per game.

What word encapsulates the state of the Knicks, Pacers, Thunder and Wolves as they take part in the conference finals?

For the first time in nearly a decade, the OKC Thunder is headed to the Western Conference finals. To get there, it took surviving the Denver Nuggets.

NBA player Rudy Gobert addressed reports that he broke up with his pregnant girlfriend Julia Bonilla at the start of the Timberwolves’ playoff games in a statement on Instagram. Bonilla, who already shares a 1-year-old son with the athlete,