MINNEAPOLIS – The “Thibs Bowl.’’
“Jimmy Palooza’’
Wednesday’s meeting between the Timberwolves and Bulls needed to be called something. After all, “a good basketball game’’ definitely wouldn’t be accurate.
But that’s where these two franchises are these days: Spinning in mud in two separate conferences, and linked together because of their mutual love affair of making bad organizational decisions.
It started with former coach Tom Thibodeau, who guided the Bulls back to relevance post-Michael Jordan Era, only to be fired because he wouldn’t be an organizational puppet. The Timberwolves hired him, only to see their junior varsity franchise end a 13-year playoff drought under Thibodeau.