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Apr 1, 2013; Minneapolis, MN, USA; General view of Target Center before the game between the Boston Celtics and Minnesota Timberwolves. Mandatory Credit: Greg Smith-USA TODAY Sports
Apr 1, 2013; Minneapolis, MN, USA; General view of Target Center before the game between the Boston Celtics and Minnesota Timberwolves. Mandatory Credit: Greg Smith-USA TODAY Sports /
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Apr 1, 2013; Minneapolis, MN, USA; General view of Target Center before the game between the Boston Celtics and Minnesota Timberwolves. Mandatory Credit: Greg Smith-USA TODAY Sports
Apr 1, 2013; Minneapolis, MN, USA; General view of Target Center before the game between the Boston Celtics and Minnesota Timberwolves. Mandatory Credit: Greg Smith-USA TODAY Sports /

Minnesota Timberwolves 2014-15 NBA Preview: Ben Beecken of FanSided’s Dunking With Wolves takes a look at the 2014-15 NBA campaign and lets us know what to expect from the Timberwolves in the upcoming season.

The Timberwolves underwent a weird transition over the course of the off-season.

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The best player from the past few seasons is gone, but there is a strange yet understandable amount of optimism surrounding the squad.

Of the 18 players on the training camp roster, a staggering 8 of them are entering either their first or second NBA season.

Only 10 were part of the league before the 2012-13 season. And of those 10 players, Ricky Rubio (turning 24 years old), Thaddeus Young (26) and Chase Budinger (26) are still quite young, despite the combined twelve years of experience that Young and Budinger bring to the roster.

The double-boss (minority owner and president of basketball operations Flip Saunders) added head coach to his business card and became a triple-boss. Saunders is certainly trying his hand at the whole “rebuilding on the fly” thing that has rarely been successful in today’s NBA. But if one is going to about this tenuous process, the Wolves are off to a heck of a start.

After winning 40 games a year ago, a team that shipped out it’s lone All-Star won’t be expected to have a comparable showing in the extremely competitive Western Conference. But Saunders just might have escaped the bottoming-out phase, which really never ended for the Wolves after the Kevin Garnett era came to a close a few years ago.

And if the team can remain respectable, not to mention enticingly entertaining, while avoiding a total rebuild, it’s more or less a win-win for Saunders and Co.

For the latest news and rumors from the Minnesota Timberwolves, be sure to visit FanSided’s Timberwolves team site, DunkingWithWolves.com.

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