NBA Halloween: Playing trick-or-treat with each team’s early season trend

Minnesota Timberwolves

Everyone is sleeping on the Timberwolves: Trick

God bless Karl-Anthony Towns and whatever it is he’s doing with his hair these days, but even before that 3-0 start came to a grinding halt in Philly, he was wrong about one thing: The world may have been sleeping on the Minnesota Timberwolves, but it was for good reason.

KAT looked insanely impressive until he was ejected from Wednesday night’s literal showdown with Joel Embiid, averaging a searing 32.0 points, 13.3 rebounds, 5.0 assists, 2.7 steals and 2.0 blocks per game through the Wolves’ first three games. He was shooting a blistering 51.7 percent from 3, had cleaned up his act on the defensive end and Minnesota was undefeated.

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Unfortunately, Embiid and the Philadelphia 76ers quickly put Towns and the T-Wolves back in their place in their first true test of the season, since their first three wins had come against Brooklyn, Charlotte and a Jimmy Butler-less Heat team. Towns is going to have an insane year (assuming he’s not suspended for too long), but Andrew Wiggins is still Andrew Wiggins, and that delectable platter of wings might be too young to make any real noise out West just yet.