The diehard fans on social media of most NBA teams have their pet projects — the rookies or young players who are a year or two away from potentially being big contributors. These fans consume clips of their favorite players in their G League or summer league games, adopt nicknames for them, and dream of the day they might go from being afterthoughts in the mind of casual NBA fans to stars.
That player on the Timberwolves is second-year forward Josh Minott, the springy forward out of Memphis who the Wolves took 45th overall in the 2022 draft.