Before tonight’s Game 2 against the Spurs, I might as well put the hex on the Twolves’ 38-year-old point guard Mike Conley, who, having earned favorable notices for his performance in the decisive Game 6 win over Denver, backed it up in the opening road win against the favored Spurs: in 24 minutes, he scored…

UPDATE: I see that Princeton historian Kevin Kruse has posted the same pic on his Bluesky account with the comment: Lawyers/Guns/Money Since so far as I know Kruse has no connection to Minnesota, and also because having zoomed in on “Mr Frogtown” I see that he’s wearing a Knicks cap, I think this picture was…

Wasn’t expecting to become so invested in the Gopher women’s basketball team this March, but hey, they have advanced into the Sweet Sixteen and are easy to like for a lot of other reasons, too: –Local kids. Of the five starters, four are from Twin Cities suburbs–Hopkins, Minnetonka, Wayzata, and Farmington (I think Farmington now…