On today's show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson live at Falling Knife Brewing Company to take live listener questions on the Wolves and to talk a little NBA Finals. Finals talk first 20 minutes of the episode, live questions and Wolves talk starts at the 19:54 mark. Sign up today for a 14-day free trial of Aura’s digital security at Aura.com/Dane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices ..read more

On today's show Dane is joined by Jack Borman and Tyler Metcalf from CanisHoopus.com to take a look at the Wolves' salary cap situation going forward through the lens of a hypothetical Karl-Anthony Towns for Scoot Henderson trade. Specific topics of the conversation include... -- How pressing is the Wolves' cap situation come 2024? -- How might the new salary cap rules through the new collective bargaining agreement force expensive teams' hands to make cost-cutting moves? -- Might Naz Reid and Nickeil Alexander-Walker be casualties of the Wolves' financial situation? -- If they have ..read more

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to discuss Wemby to the Spurs, the feasibility of a KAT-to-Portland trade and the Conference Finals after Game 1s. Specific topics, in order, today include: -- The feasibility of a KAT to Portland trade -- How the Spurs might build a roster around Wemby -- Does Naz Reid make sense for the Spurs? -- How many players would you take over Jimmy Butler for the playoffs? -- What does Boston's path to winning look like? -- How the Lakers matchup with Jokic -- Does LeBron on Jokic make some sense? -- The DLo/Herro/Poole archetype in the pla ..read more

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Wolves beat writer, Chris Hine, from the Star Tribune, to discuss Chris’ recent story on Anthony Edwards — a one-on-one interview, in which Edwards reflects on the season, lays out his plan for the summer, and describes how he’s trying to become the greatest shooting guard of all time by “catching his boy M.J.”. Some of the specific topics from the story that Dane and Chris discuss include... — What Edwards says his approach to late-game offense will be next season — How Edwards is growing, and has room to grow, in his ability to read opposing defenses — Ant ..read more

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to dive into a Wolves offseason preview in the form of a two-part mailbag. In this episode, Part 2, the main topics Dane and Kyle dive into include... — Jaden McDaniels not making an All-Defensive team, and why that likely won’t impact his contract extension — Naz Reid’s future in Minnesota + Naz comps — Areas Anthony Edwards can grow alongside the two bigs — Chris Finch’s fit with this roster — Mike Conley and the future of the point guard position — Nickeil Alexander-Walker as a long-term piece — Miscellaneous question topi ..read more

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to dive into a Wolves offseason preview in the form of a two-part mailbag. In this episode, Part 2, the main topics Dane and Kyle dive into include... — Jaden McDaniels not making an All-Defensive team, and why that likely won’t impact his contract extension — Naz Reid’s future in Minnesota + Naz comps — Areas Anthony Edwards can grow alongside the two bigs — Chris Finch’s fit with this roster — Mike Conley and the future of the point guard position — Nickeil Alexander-Walker as a long-term piece — Miscellaneous question topi ..read more

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Kyle Theige from SKORNorth to dive into a Wolves offseason preview in the form of a two-part mailbag. In this episode, Part 1, the main topics Dane and Kyle dive into include... — Tim Connelly’s recent comments about the Washington job and how the Wolves enter the offseason with a question mark at the top — The Wolves salary cap and luxury tax flexibility this summer and how that might impact re-signing Naz Reid and Nickeil Alexander-Walker — Many questions on trading Karl-Anthony Towns or Rudy Gobert — Listing cheap free agency options to shore up shooti ..read more

On today’s show, Dane is again joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost, only this time to move on from the Wolves season and to focus on what has thus far happened in Round 2 of the playoffs. Dane and Britt start by discussing Sixers-Celtic, then move on to Suns-Nuggets and Heat-Knicks, before closing with Lakers-Warriors. — Sixers-Celtics (4:00) — Suns-Nuggets (21:00) — Heat-Knicks (43:00) — Lakers-Warriors (1:01:00) Sign up today for a 14-day free trial of Aura’s digital security at Aura.com/Dane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices ..read more

On today’s show, Dane is joined by Britt Robson from MinnPost to recap the Wolves series against Denver and the Wolves season as a whole. From recapping the two bigs experiment to Ant’s ascension, topics today include: — Tidied-up under achievement is how the season ended — Recapping the nature of the two big — Ant as the primary focus, two bigs following suit — What was said at exit interviews — Parsing Connelly/Finch/Gobert’s comments on reason for optimism — What were the intractable issues of the season, and which of those issues can be solved internally vs needing to find answers for exte ..read more

On today’s show, Dane runs through Timberwolves exit interviews by playing the audio of the audio of Tim Connelly, Chris Finch and the five players who spoke to the media in end of season press conference form. After each of the interviews, Dane gives some thoughts and notes of what was said. If you’re looking for a specific person's exit interview audio, follow the timestamps below that roughly account for commentary and ad breaks... — Tim Connelly (4:00) — Jaden McDaniels (28:00) — Chris Finch (44:00) — Mike Conley (1:07:00) — Rudy Gobert (1:27:00) — Karl-Anthony Towns (1:56:00) — Taurean P ..read more