r/nba • u/dosnetlive Timberwolves • Apr 01 '23
[Krawcynski] No one wants to hear this, but it's clear this illness has ravaged the Wolves. Towns said it hit him hard. Edwards was throwing up at halftime and laying in the tunnel when he was not in the game. Rivers wasn't even there tonight.
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u/_Russell_Westbrick Lakers Apr 01 '23
yea you can clearly see in second half they are shooting wide open 3s and are way off
I hope they get better soon, and don't pass the illness to Lakers
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u/Actual_Lakers_Fan Lakers Apr 01 '23
They're commiting bio-warfare
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u/RottenSmegmaMan Tampa Bay Raptors Apr 01 '23
Learning from the Mongols
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u/King_Dead [CLE] Donovan Mitchell Apr 01 '23
Minnesota is very similar to the mongolian steppe in a lot of ways
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u/the___heretic Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
I know you’re joking, but I looked up some photos. Southwestern Minnesota, absolutely. The rest of the state, not really lol.
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u/dinozaurs Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
Many people don’t know this, but we’re quite adept at shooting arrows while moving on horseback. Some say we were born in the saddle.
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u/mudkip-yoshii Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
Targets aren’t supermarkets here like they are in the rest of the country, they’re archery ranges
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u/BananaFartman_MD Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
We are the home of Target though. Coincidence? I think not.
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u/denoobiest Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
getting sick a month before the playoffs so you've got antibodies by the time everyone else is just getting it...smartest team in the league
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u/BehavioralSink Trail Blazers Apr 01 '23
Timberwolves to AD: Can I interest you in this slightly used blanket…?
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u/sylvestersquad Suns Apr 01 '23
Suns look really good tonight two days after the wolves game if that makes you feel better
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u/Helivon Apr 01 '23
Incubation period for most illnesses is longer than 2 days
I'm still highly stressed about it as a suns fan
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u/LeanTim Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
Why tf is ant playing 38 mins when he’s sick like that
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u/OpportunitySmalls Apr 01 '23
He said taking games off was for pussies earlier in the year and is keeping that energy
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u/Brooklyn-Mikal San Francisco Warriors Apr 01 '23
Well 🤷♂️ he backing up what he said. Honestly can’t hate it at all
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Apr 01 '23
Normally I would say take the time to start feeling better.
But I respect the fuck outta any player that’s trying their hardest to be out there every night. There’s a fine balance to it all, but the league has gone a little towards the soft side.
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u/OGFN_Jack Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
Yeah I mean honestly we probably would’ve been better off without him last night with how sick he was but I can’t fault him for playing. He’s battled so hard to keep us competitive this year so that we could play these meaningful games late down the stretch and the whole team just got decimated by a flu, fucking sucks.
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u/Andy_Wiggins Apr 01 '23
Two of the backup SG’s were out (Nowell and Rivers). Naz is hurt so they need TP at forward. Plus everyone else had it too.
But yeah, Ant was dreadful probably because of it.
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u/OKCDraftPick2028 Lakers Apr 01 '23
why are they allowed to play if they had illness?
if someone is throwing up that's not a good sign to make him return
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u/MintyFreshBreathYo Pistons Apr 01 '23
They wanted to be like Mike
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u/Breatnach Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
Seriously, as long as the flu game is so romanticized, players will think it’s a good idea.
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u/Hascus Apr 01 '23
The one thing that I think we can all agree is tougher today than back then is the fuckin flu lmao
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u/motorboat_mcgee Lakers Apr 01 '23 edited Apr 01 '23
Locker rooms getting the flu or stomach bugs happen pretty commonly,
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u/bokononpreist Apr 01 '23
I can remember when our cheerleaders had a mono outbreak. My entire basketball team had it in a week lol.
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u/SakeOfPete Apr 01 '23
Because it was arguably one of the biggest games of the season.
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u/MG_MN Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
We wouldn't have enough players probably
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u/OKCDraftPick2028 Lakers Apr 01 '23
i edited my comment.
i mean at the 2nd half why did they chose to play Ant more. That shit is dangerous
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u/MG_MN Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
Not sure, but Ant plays through everything and has that old school mentality so I wouldn't be surprised if he forced their hand
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u/krand16 Suns Apr 01 '23
Biological warfare, if they going down might as well take other teams with them...
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u/mMounirM
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which microphone did Gobert touch
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u/spidaL1C4 Cavaliers Apr 01 '23
Probably touched everything in sight
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u/Sharp_Aide3216 Apr 01 '23
oh god not the kids!
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u/reddit-acct54321 Apr 01 '23
He slobbed my knob 😩
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u/FlatMilk NBA Apr 01 '23
is it not contagious?
if so, should the teams they've been playing be worried?
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u/SEAinLA Supersonics Apr 01 '23
If it’s norovirus, it’s one of the most contagious illnesses out there.
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u/GGezpzMuppy Spurs Apr 01 '23
Ohh fuck shut down the league and get the bubble ready!!!
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u/John_Winchester Lakers Apr 01 '23
Someone said bubble?!?!
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u/everyoneneedsaherro [NBA] Alperen Şengün Apr 01 '23
LeBron licking his chops
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u/yuhanz [PHO] Steve Nash Apr 01 '23
Clippers bout to protest
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u/LakersLAQ Lakers Apr 01 '23
ADisney on the way!
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u/Chadme_Swolmidala Hornets Apr 01 '23
Need the Lebron James of virologists
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u/SuspiciousSpyderman NBA Apr 01 '23
So the 2nd best virologist
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u/larrylegend33goat [NBA] Rudy Gobert Apr 01 '23
Well the Bill Russell of virology is retired but did do some incredible work in the pioneering days of virology and immunolgy
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u/Reboot-Bloody-Roar Nuggets Apr 01 '23
I'll take a Murray vs Mitchell sequel... :)
Hands down my favorite playoff series ever.
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u/atlfirsttimer Apr 01 '23
Why do you think it's norovirus
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u/SEAinLA Supersonics Apr 01 '23
Educated guess based on the description of a stomach bug that’s ravaging the entire locker room at roughly the same time.
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u/BatmanButShak Apr 01 '23
ive worked at a daycare for four years this is definitely the stomach bug and no one is safe!
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u/UnrulyExistence [LAL] Kobe Bryant Apr 01 '23
Agreed. I know because my toddler got it and then passed it to me and I spent all last Friday night vomiting my guts out every other hour for about 6 hours. Then it subsided but I didn’t feel back to my normal self for about 4-5 days.
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u/disneycorp Apr 01 '23
Same had to have yogurt 24/7 diet to settle and rebuild that good gut biome, too about 8-10 days though to feel normal. I was also pooping my face off it was a double attacks
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u/UnrulyExistence [LAL] Kobe Bryant Apr 01 '23
Same I got attacked from the North and the South it was a shit-show, literally
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u/Coolidger_ Apr 01 '23
Yep, Norovirus ripped through my family about a month and a half ago. Toddler got sick from daycare, we thought it was food poisoning. Next thing you know its my sister, her boyfriend, my mother, myself. Its definitely going around.
Probably the sickest I've been in years, and I had covid too. Spent about 10 hours in the bathroom leaking from both ends. Once the worst passes you turn a corner pretty quickly, and from what ive read theres no long term risks or effects associated with it. Its just 10 hours of vile awfulness.
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u/Haunting_Drink_2777 Apr 01 '23
Yep I remember getting a stomach bug 2 months ago. I had a heater, heated blanket and 3 duvets and I felt like I was going into hypothermia. Then proceeded to struggle sleeping until I made it to the toilet, had explosive diarrhea and then as I was leaning over to grab some toilet paper I proceeded to puke through my nose and mouth for the next 40 seconds gasping for air the few moments before the next hurl came. Mind you at the same time ahit is coming out my ass like a black liquid
Cleaned up the tub and then blew out the remaining vomit chunks out of my nose and throat and then used mouth wash and went to bed in peace.
The virus then spread to the rest of our family 1 by 1 although none of them had to deal with the diarrhea
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u/disneycorp Apr 01 '23
Yes I was also infected by toddler, why these mother f&&@Kees can’t wash their hands and stop eating their poop
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u/donald-duck23 Lakers Apr 01 '23
I was really sick a few weeks ago unlike I ever have been before with the same symptoms, now wondering if this is what I had
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u/EazeeP Apr 01 '23
Registered Environmental Health Specialist here, if it is norovirus, it most likely happened because someone didn’t wash their hands after pooping 💩
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u/Secret-Limit3138 Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
First Matt Ryan and McLaughlin had it and then 2 other players were added to the injury report and now 8 of them have it - so it’s clearly contagious. It’s an “intestinal virus” and KAT said he couldn’t eat anything all day because he would puke it up. Honestly sounds like norovirus 😬
I don’t understand why the game wasn’t postponed. It could infect other teams and there’s not enough healthy players on the Wolves to have a rotation (which forces sick players to play). That’s fucked up
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u/MarduRusher Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
Yes the wolves are engaging the Lakers with biological warfare. We may have lost the battle tonight but we’ll win the war when they get sick lol.
In all seriousness hope it doesn’t spread too much. Would suck if it spread to other teams right before the playoffs.
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u/PlayInChampions Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
They’ve been dealing with it since at least Saturday (Finch mentioned Ant missed a practice because he was sick) but other teams are yet to get sick.
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u/califbreeze Lakers Apr 01 '23
Austin Rivers was there tonight didn’t you hear the announcers say his name after that white guy on the lakers scored inside
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u/califbreeze Lakers Apr 01 '23
I was playing lmao that’s why I called Reaves the white guy so it wouldn’t kill the joke
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u/Drunken_Vike Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
Whole team has the shits, which tracks, because all they did was shit themselves on the floor tonight
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u/zetcetera Vancouver Grizzlies Apr 01 '23
I had norovirus back in February along with my toddler and partner. It was a brutal day and a half of non stop vomiting every 20 minutes, I couldn’t imagine trying to play a sport lmao
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u/Secret-Limit3138 Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
Oh hmm maybe it’s not norovirus then because these players have had it for several days. Ant was listed with the illness since Saturday
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u/laker2303 Apr 01 '23
Why the fu k they allowed to play this sick? What if they pass it on bruh ? Wtf
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u/BenadrylBeer Trail Blazers Apr 01 '23
COVID taught us nothing it’s kinda funny actually. My office went from 2021 “someone confirmed covid! Everyone GTFO and shutting down building for 48 hours!”
To this “someone had covid please don’t come to work if you feel sick, thanks!”
Also no one washes their hands before they eat. I probably sound weird but whatever it’s confusing
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u/thatkidfromthatshow Apr 01 '23
Bro I was so excited that people were gonna start wearing masks when sick, it was going to be normalised. Going to the store real quick, put on a mask, now you don't have to feel guilty about picking up some snacks or something.
Somehow It turned into a damn political statement, and you get even worse looks than wearing a mask pre-covid... I just don't wanna get anyone sick fam, it ain't all that.
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u/signedintotalkshit Lakers Apr 01 '23
Oof. If it makes you feel better, some places definitely came out like you had hoped. Masks are pretty normalized around me after all that
No one bats an eye and I hardly notice them these days
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u/hodgeac Trail Blazers Apr 01 '23
At least where I live, I hardly notice them because no one wears them. Sick or not. It boggles the mind.
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u/lessregretsnextyear Bucks Apr 01 '23
If COVID taught me anything it's that I think people are fkn gross and no one washes their hands enough.
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u/JHeezy19 Lakers Apr 01 '23
the two things i hate doing are shaking other peoples' hands or having to use somebody else's phone.
people are fucking gross.
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u/counterbarrier Raptors Apr 01 '23
The world is weird. Washing hand before eating should be something important but lazy disgusting assholes makes sanitary ppl feel bad about it.
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Apr 01 '23
You feel bad about washing your hands because other people don't wash their hands?
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u/cynicalspindle Apr 01 '23
Bruh, I have dudes taking a shit at work and not washing their hands after it. idk how people can be so disgusting.
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u/speckledfloor Warriors Apr 01 '23
COVID taught us in the health care sector that if we are sick, we don't get paid. So we go to work sick. Standard "sick time" hours we'd normally accumulate were no where near sufficient to deal with all the random bugs that were out there after society opened up. And, they took away the COVID sick time bank once it was clear COVID wasnt as deadly. So unless I was dying or couldn't speak and interact normally with patients, hi ho hi ho it's off to work I went and hoped for the best.
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u/Snowskol Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
Its arguably our most important game of the year and if they didnt we'd have gobert and 7 backups.
6 of our main rotation are sick, and naz is out.
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u/Shhadowcaster Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
If the league didn't postpone the game we didn't really have a choice... Either show up with a 4 man rotation, forfeit, or play with sick players.
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u/jdeckro Apr 01 '23
I'm glad they're all still playing and just spreading it to other teams.
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u/motorboat_mcgee Lakers Apr 01 '23
I just hope the Lakers take their zinc tonight
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u/OneLeggedJaguar Vancouver Grizzlies Apr 01 '23
Why are the wolves always sick
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u/OGFN_Jack Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
I don’t really have any proof of this but I’d be willing to bet at least a part of that due to the fact the geniuses over at the NBA think it makes any remote sense for us to be in the western conference. Our miles travelled are always incredibly high because of things like traveling halfway across the country the play our fierce rivals the Portland Trail Blazers.
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u/tmapfbc Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
Of course our entire team gets sick during the most important stretch of the season. My confidence in our playoff chances has flipped in just the last 48 hours. We were playing so well before this too. Fuck.
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u/noknownothing Apr 01 '23
Don't worry, they got the Lakers sick right before the playoffs.
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u/sanfranchristo Apr 01 '23
This raises a lot of questions in my mind. Does anyone know if there is any policy around this (not counting COVID protocol)? It's wild to me that a team could know (or have reason to believe/assume, depending on exactly how diagnosable specific illnesses are) that their player(s) have a contagious illness and allow them to play. One could easily see how this could affect the outcomes of key games or even a season.
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u/Gengaara Apr 01 '23
I'd be interested in the policy too. 7 players have it. 2 are injured. Couldn't really field a team if they were forced to sit. League should've postponed the game.
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u/Shhadowcaster Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
Everyone in here wants to blame the Wolves, but why on earth would the league not just postpone the game... You'll never get a team to just straight up forfeit a game, especially when they are battling to make the playoffs at the end of the season
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u/Heyitscharlie Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
Intestinal flu will fuck you up, what was it, 6 guys on the team struggling with it this week? or was it 7?
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u/Secret-Limit3138 Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
- Conley wasn’t listed but he’s sick and the others not listed were Jaden, Rudy, Nate Knight, Luka Garza and Moore and Minott. It’s possible they’re sick too though
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u/IMKudaimi123 Bulls Apr 01 '23
Well that explains the atrocious second half performance more
I was watching and getting so frustrated
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u/DudeWTH Lakers Apr 01 '23
wolves better not have gotten our players sick
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u/No-Drawer9926 Apr 01 '23
They were only breathing hard and sweating while playing a contact sport with the Lakers. NBD
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u/jdeckro Apr 01 '23
They were also sick during the Suns game....I don't get why they don't just keep the sick players away for a few games.
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u/Secret-Limit3138 Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
NBA should have postponed the game. They had no choice but to play because the only healthy guys were Jaden, Rudy, our 2 rookies, Nate Knight and Luka Garza (at least they’re not listed but who knows they might be sick too). Naz and Nowell were injured so that’s at max 6 healthy guys. So the sick players have to play to have a full rotation. It’s fucked up
I saw Ant throw up in a bucket in the tunnel. When Conley was subbed out he went straight to the locker room. KAT didn’t eat all day because his system would puke it up. I honestly don’t know how they managed to play
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u/Thimit22 Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
idk it might have been the most important game of the season so far. If over half our starters sat for an illness with 6 games left in a tight playoff race, we’d never hear the end of it. We get shit on enough the way it is.. I’m at least happy we put up a fight and hope the Suns/Lakers didn’t catch it
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u/BounceBros21 Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
Should’ve postponed the game then. But then lakers fans would cry then too
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u/MarduRusher Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
So disappointed in the timing. Right when they needed to make a big push. Feels like the teams had more than its share of rotten luck this year.
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u/MG_MN Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
Naz, then sickness. Rough! Hopefully they get good enough for Sunday
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u/Doomdoomkittydoom Apr 01 '23
How many teams are going to be stricken before the Wolves plane is designated a plague ship?
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u/GATOR_CITY Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
Fucking league pulling a "MJ flu game" giving the wolves tainted pizza. Sons of bitches. Give it a year and Ant will be dropping 63 while puking mid dunk! Yep. Yes sir.
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u/Son_of_Atreus Celtics Apr 01 '23
We’re they at the Celtics Bucks game in the crowd? Heard these was a lot of illness being projected about.
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u/itsmrlowetoyou Hornets Apr 01 '23
Why would no one want to hear this?
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u/oladipo Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
Hes saying it to wolves fans as a “no wolves fan wants to hear excuses right now but” kind of thing
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u/captaincumsock69 Celtics Apr 01 '23
Whenever I see this reporters name I always wonder why the Duke coach is reporting nba drama
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u/mylesA747 Knicks Apr 01 '23
gobert infecting the league again smfh
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u/Hypnosix Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
One of the few players on the team that isn’t actually sick
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u/BounceBros21 Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
Didn’t it start with the former laker, Matt Ryan, getting sick?
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u/MG_MN Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
Makes sense why they fell apart in the second half, though they did play awful
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u/wakeballer39 Apr 01 '23
Wolves should've went to "The LeBRON of FLU DOCTORS!" Maybe it's a secret plan to get the lakers sick though.
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u/asvpmvson Kings Apr 01 '23
team with gobert on it gets sick. where have i seen this before.
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u/Both_Ad_6059 Lakers Apr 01 '23
Three days later, league will be suspended again and bubble 2.0 will happen and eventually, the Los Angeles Lakers are your 2022-2023 nba champions
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u/SmileyCotton [OKC] Raymond Felton Apr 01 '23
Does disease just like, follow Gobert?
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u/RedWrix Warriors Apr 01 '23
Kevin Durant, Lebron James, Steph Curry smell Illness in the West...
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u/KnickedUp Apr 01 '23
In Boston they can taste it
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u/RedWrix Warriors Apr 01 '23
Oh god it took me too long to realize what you were talking about so gross lmao
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u/MichiganKarter Celtics Apr 01 '23
If a team is incapable of playing due to the norovirus, is there a league rule on what happens? Is it a forfeit? Is it a draw? If three players have it now, the whole team will be down tomorrow.
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u/Hypnosix Timberwolves Apr 01 '23
The whole team was down they’ve been dealing with this for like a week and more guys keep getting sick
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u/Carolake1 Lakers Apr 01 '23
Illness is not just bad luck, if they were really good they would have stayed healthy. Durability is a characteristic... /s, obviously
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u/captain_ahabb Lakers Apr 01 '23
Wolves put up a good effort under the circumstances but just ran out of gas in the second half