At this point, we all know the lead story from Wednesday’s matchup between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Philadelphia 76ers. After all, the brawl between Karl-Anthony Towns and Joel Embiid dominated NBA Twitter throughout Wednesday night and into Thursday morning.
There was a basketball game as well, and it did not go as well as Timberwolves fans would have liked. Few people thought that these two teams were on equal footing coming into the year, with the Sixers considered to be among the elite in the Eastern Conference and the Wolves fighting for their playoff lives in the West.