I arrived late, a little smashed, because of the dangerous combination of a busy sushi chef and an attentive waitress. Waiting forever for food with an abundant supply of alcohol made me late and pretty spaced out. So really I have no idea how the Wolves jumped out to a commanding lead over the Sonics, I just know that Seattle continued to get their asses whipped for the rest of the game as well. Most of the game is really a blur, but I remember Ricky Davis scoring a lot, while the people I would have expected to feature prominently, Kevin Garnett, Randy Foye, and Ray Allen, had undistinguished evenings.
By the way, you may know Ray Allen from the 10 minutes he spent as a Timberwolf on draft night in 1996 before we traded him and a center to Milwaukee for a self-obsessed headcase (oops) or for his feature film career. His film career may have only consisted of two movies, but it was still better than Shaq's. In Spike Lee's He Got Game, which is a simply fantastic movie, Ray Allen played a high school basketball phenom ironically based on Stephon Marbury (the guy we traded him for), and he also appeared as a basketball player in Sarah Michelle Gellar's lone attempt at adult drama, Harvard Man. That was significantly less fantastic than He Got Game, which was Spike Lee's long-awaited homage to New York basketball, which sold me on both Denzel Washington and Mila Jovovich.
Even after a blow-out win, the Timberwolves are still a sub-500 teams wasting a league MVP's talent, and as far as Seattle goes, well thank god they're not the Grizzlies, huh? That's a good way to sell taxpayers on a new arena in Seattle, barely winning half your home games.
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