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How to Act Like You’ve Been There: Why Do Fans Not Want to be Happy?

The lasting memory of this generation of Wolves basketball for fans may be a play, maybe it’s Anthony Edwards hitting his head on the backboard or the first ever “Naz Reid Game”. Or maybe it’s a call, a scream from Michael Grady or the iconic Jim Pete.

For most of “NBA Twitter” though, it is a gif of players launching jerseys into the stands, jumping atop tables, and celebrating... a game that crowned them a seventh seed?

It is that video that became a symbol of pyrrhic victories, of boisterous yells that are unsubstantiated by their merit.