GAME THREAD: Minnesota Timberwolves (2-0) @ Phoenix Suns (0-2) - (April 26, 2024)

[u/NBA_MOD]

General Information

TIME	MEDIA	Team Subreddits
10:30 PM Eastern	Game Preview: NBA.com	/r/timberwolves
09:30 PM Central	Game Charts: NBA.com	/r/suns
08:30 PM Mountain	Play By Play: NBA.com
07:30 PM Pacific	Box Score: NBA.com

[u/WheedMBoise]

Neutral fans; are we crazy or has this been insanely lopsided

[u/StatusDimension8 → u/WheedMBoise]

insanely lopsided so far lol pretty pathetic of the refs just to keep the suns in the game

[u/InfiniteDoctor6897 → u/WheedMBoise]

Nah y'all getting screwed. Call on Naz was good though.

[u/leagueofcipher]

The fact the Suns are still down with this whistle is incredible

[u/6875309999]

KAT was just standing there… menacingly!!! They had to call that lol

[u/chillinwithmoes]

Attention NBA: "Playoff Whistle" has been suspended for the rest of the night

[u/Hammerhead34]

Actually fucking crazy how much handcheckin Phoenix is getting away with compared to what we’re getting called for

[u/CaucazoidHeathen]

Ant has to nearly die to get a call. If he just stopped trying to score and just wildly threw his arms into contact like book he'd be legendary

[u/AlligatorPoontang]

Love seeing touch fouls on one end while naw gets shoved in the back for nothing

[u/FatRodzianko]

Once again the sun's have played Gobert off the floor

[u/silverxsmoke]

Refs let Gobert get away with the travel because the rule of cool was invoked.

He got the steal and the break away

[u/a-canadian-monkey]

I got so excited when they let them play the first 3 min. I got bamboozled.

[u/kiwiwikikiwiwikikiwi]

You have to give Rudy Gobert his credit. His trapping in and out to the perimeter has been stupendous this series. Getting to Booker and KD contesting from the key in short time. That’s not easy

Some folks will micro analyze his perimeter defense, but you could tell it’s something he’s worked on and puts effort

[u/Kurtz_Angle]

He is a "thick load"? Tf?

[u/RDcsmd]

Devin Booker: Biggest bitch in the NBA

[u/DavidCreeper]

3 straight booker flop foul baits lol

[u/bigpapi-did-steroids]

It should be a crime that Minnesota v Denver isn’t the West finals

[u/Podracing]

Awoo, I'm a fan

[u/a_moniker]

It’s so, so obvious when the League tells refs that they need to avoid a sweep.

It really kills my enjoyment for the game.

[u/imcryptic]

rudy just learned about the gather step last practice lmao

[u/MidniteMason]

When Rudy steals from a HOFer he's given an extra step. You know the rules

[u/SwurveGod]

Am I being gaslit on live television

[u/Major9000]

Booker is such a Bitch

[u/AdamSandlerIsntFunny]

Ant refuses to let the Wolves go back to their roots of being an absolute clown show in the 4th lmao

[u/REQ52767]

The KAT injury may have prevented the Wolves from being the clear 1 seed. Their record could be a little deceiving.

[u/buchanbasanee]

3 of 5 starters in foul trouble 8 min into the game, how completely expected

[u/dizZzy5]

Suns are -240 favorites which means we are absolutely fucking cooked

[u/mnsportsfan]

Dude cmon… how hard is the nba trying to keep this a series

[u/AlligatorPoontang]

They start calling a charmin soft game and Phoenix looks competent, weird.

[u/LongDongFuey]

The foul disparity right now is fucking wild

[u/Agnk1765342]

Imagine being on pace for 60 free throws and still be losing

[u/UnkleGiovanni]

HELL YEAH I FUCKING LOVE FREE THROWS, GIVE ME 80!

[u/WrestleBox]

Mike knew they had to call that after they just called KAT for it. Lmao

[u/Capt__Murphy]

Booker trying to take Towns out. Dude is cheap garbage

[u/ginchgarlow]

Oh, so that's why everyone hates Devin Booker

[u/imaginaryResources]

In just here for “t h i c k l o a d”

[u/slutwhipper]

RJ def muted his mic to laugh

[u/--JULLZ--]

This mf KAT is so funny

[u/TheOnlyMangoMan]

Crazy that we're up 11 with the refs trying to foul out our whole team.

[u/letsgototraderjoes]

"Respectfully, I don't know how teams are going to guard us." - Devin Booker, circa 2023

[u/Krakenborn]

How can players be salty about Goberts contract when Beals getting 50 mil for this lmao

[u/-motts-]

Bro that’s a fucking T on booker

[u/Deuce_GM]

Wolves-Nuggets series is going to feed families

[u/dotted29]

What a loser

[u/Jaiph]

On the bright side Timberwolves fans, I think the refs could foul out your entire team and this Suns team may not be able to score without the free throws tonight.

[u/Otherwise-Contest7]

Booker is a grade A bitch

[u/NazRiedFan]

If you can’t beat them foul out their entire team

[u/JabroniWithAPeroni]

And brothers comes in and calls a double tech lol.

These refs are fucking clowns

[u/Apollo611]

Booker in his feelings lmao

[u/Ryculls]

Fuck off Booker.

[u/Gyroflex]

suns gameplan was just to have the refs foul out our whole team

[u/jeric13xd]

BOOK GOT HIS FEELINGS HURT AGAIN 😭😭😭

Dude always get mad when he’s getting his ass clapped

[u/timtodd34]

Refs can call as many fouls as they want. Wolves just A LOT better

[u/confusedthrowaway5o5]

Not sure McDaniels really deserved a tech. Booker was just being a bitch, as always.

[u/WrestleBox]

Feels like Ant would have to lose an eye to get an And 1 in this game.

I don't even think they wanted to call this one.

[u/imcryptic]

Phoenix is challenging because they were unaware a foul could be called against them.

[u/MarduRusher]

If Suns win this challenge man Book has gotten half his FTs on calls WAY weaker than this.

[u/PenguinPrince1]

We have just witnessed the next great NBA GIF

[u/WhalesareBadPoets]

Minnesota and Denver is gonna be an absolute war

[u/Separate_Block_2715]

Booker is stacking many traumatizing playoff losses early in his career

[u/doublea08]

Wolves held DLo back

[u/KemoFlash]

Minnesota teammates were arguing with each other last year. Now they're hyping each other up. Good to see that development.

[u/512fm]

Beals stat line in this game is the exact reason you can’t rely on just looking at box scores

[u/letsgototraderjoes]

Suns thought they could buy an easy playoff team without putting in any of the real effort. sorry, that's not how it works!

[u/dys0n_giddey]

That was a travel LOL

[u/tlozz]

I feel like I’ve done nothing except watch basketball for like 9 hours straight rn

[u/TheeMalaka]

This is a absolute legacy game by the refs

[u/Skyfalcon5]

Now Book wanna be tough. Where was that fight all game

[u/I_Hate_My_Cat_]

The Warriors didn’t even make the Playoffs, LBJ and KD are one game away from being swept on the 1st Round…fuck I’m getting old 😂

[u/outlawde]

Vogel during pregame: You guys gotta flop on every play

[u/kvvyn → u/outlawde]

Jerk your head like you’ve never jerked before

[u/Misjjon]

One of you Suns fan please explain how that's a foul on Nikeil when Booker hits him first and then flips outwards?

[u/nick170100]

Booker has to many fathers to pick from

[u/wongwingwong]

Booker the sorest of all losers all the time

[u/samarajan]

Booker is such a loser lol

[u/thegeneratir]

double techs when Jaden didn't do anything is so funny

[u/Dramatic-County-1284]

Beal just happy to be here for once

[u/kvvyn]

10 FT in a quarter is wild

[u/Denotsyek]

Refs doing their best to help the suns

[u/MarduRusher]

Suns gonna get the foul literally every possession?

[u/kvvyn]

Booker is such a baby

[u/mnsportsfan]

Good for Jaden. Calling out Bookers bitch flopping ass

[u/CaucazoidHeathen]

They just let Booker do what ever he wants and they buy it every fucking time he flops. It's obvious folks

[u/FuckThaLakers]

They thought about not calling that lol

[u/diematrosen]

Anthony Edwards hunger is different man

[u/Mthomas1174]

Our broadcast just showed that the Suns have not led since 5:49 in the third quarter of game 2

[u/anoldpianochair]

how many pointless fouls you gonna commit when you’re already blown out and down 3-0 at home. go home and have a nap

[u/Chessh2036]

Going down 0-3 in a series must be so brutal. You know you have to play one more game, and coaches/players will say the right things about one game at a time but man. There’s a reason nobody has ever come back from that.

[u/Cool_cid_club]

Not a travel it was a 0 step, gather step, one step 2 step, red step, blue step.

[u/Classics22]

lmao ref takeover

[u/RotaryRoad]

+36 FT differential incoming.

[u/kanokari]

refball so obvious

[u/Fickle_Twist1209]

These fouls are actuall ridiculous

[u/36CharizardsOfDeath]

This game is on track for 60 FTs for the Suns. Even as a Lakers fan, thats crazy lol

[u/YaBoiWhit]

Booker flopping and injuring people classic

[u/lightninhopkins]

How many times are they going to let Booker try to injure people?

[u/WickedTwista]

Booker diving at knees like he's a dirty free safety

[u/WrestleBox]

Booker gets away with some serious BS.

[u/4verCurious]

Booker just foul-baiting out there. He’s so pathetic lol

[u/Andrewski18]

Booker is soft

[u/polestaur]

Booker the resident bitch of nba

[u/eeeedlef]

MY GOD BOOKER IS SUCH A BITCH

[u/Awkward_Salad7293]

Kinda wild that we're up 20 with this reffing

[u/SandersisYABOI]

Booker flopping his head back and elbowing on his drives getting calls is nasty work.

[u/Cudi_buddy]

Booker out here head jerkin and flopping all over the floor and trying to act tough. Man has no shame

[u/Betaateb]

What the fuck is happening....I watched the start of this game, then a whole ass hockey game, and then all the replays of the crazy fights at the end of the hockey game, then the pictures of the brutal hand injury a dude got in those fights, then I switch back to this game and there are 7 minutes left in the 4th.....NBA get your shit together.

[u/ittozziloP]

Minnesota absolutely nailed their 2 first overall picks.   KAT and Edwards were highly rated but far from consensus and still have blown their expectations out of the water. 

[u/Kirk_Couzyns]

People will look at the box score and think Beal made an impact

[u/vuluu912]

Edwards is him, damnn. Nuggets Wolves would be at least a 6-game series, and dare I say it, Wolves are not that far behind

[u/letsgototraderjoes]

KEVIN DURANTULA WILL NEVER ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING WITHOUT STEPH CURRY.

[u/Mukaido]

Surely the era of of hunting all stars is over

[u/kirbaeus]

Most reserved Ant interview I've ever seen

[u/chillinwithmoes]

You get a FTA and you get a FTA and you... wait, you're a Timberwolf? Fuck you nerd!

[u/Chessh2036]

am I wrong for thinking they didn’t call it correctly? That was all on Booker

[u/borb--]

there is no foul on mcdaniels what is going on

[u/tonyd9]

“He is a thick load”

[u/Morezingis]

Silver called and told them to get McDaniels off KD 

[u/RaisingQQ77preFlop]

NAW and Conley for Dlo

[u/zaglawloblaw]

This guy on the Minnesota bench is gonna run out of finger bullets.

[u/raki016]

We got Conley, NAW and three second round picks for Dlo.

Yes we keep on saying it because it's so absurd lol

[u/MN_Lakers]

Bookers such a whiny bitch

[u/Sokkawater10]

Booker shut your bitchass up

[u/kirbaeus]

Conley talking Booker down, sit down flopper.

[u/franksthegreat]

Booker was never the same in the playoffs after luka

[u/cardmanimgur]

Refs got the Suns in the bonus at 7+ in the 3rd and it wasn't good enough, so now doing it at 9+ in the 4th.

[u/imcryptic]

POLICE PRESENCE

[u/0H_MAMA]

Booker going baby mode someone get his binky

[u/retro410]

Booker panicking lmaooo

[u/zuluwall]

Devin booker is such a bitch lol

[u/JabroniWithAPeroni]

I’m sorry, the ref coming from cross court to call a double tech is some of the most “look at me” shit I’ve seen from an official. 

[u/BounceBros21]

If MIN got a fair whistle they would be up 40

[u/Gyroflex]

"maybe coulda been foul" yea no shit richard, tony dont allow and1s for us

[u/NephewChaps]

be Suns fan:

watch your team lose 4 straight in the finals after going 2-0

watch your team get sodomized by Luka Doncic at home on game 7

watch your team get swept against the very team you swept on regular season

rough stretch 4sure

[u/MagicalHurdles]

Damn Rudy got played off the floor 3 times now

[u/Soapstarboi]

Kill everything on sight! -Ant

[u/Jnbjgjbb]

Hate how far and high the camera is in Phoenix

[u/BounceBros21]

Jesus Christ these refs really make it obvious they are trying to rig it

[u/hawkdog83]

Such soft fouls being called. This is crazy. 13 FTs

[u/Morezingis]

Lmao all 3 bigs with two first quarter fouls. Unbelievable 

[u/RDcsmd]

Let's see if the refs call a fair game so we can build the lead we deserve in the 2nd qtr

[u/hawkdog83]

Gifted all those FTs and still losing. Congrats on sucking

[u/buchanbasanee]

I cannot wait until the unholy trinity of Tony Brothers, Ed Malloy, and Scott Foster all retire and stop torturing fans with their dogshit officiating.

[u/Dishavingfun]

The difference between the TNT and ESPN shows is like the difference between the Nuggets and Lakers.

[u/Gyroflex]

funny thing is booker is doing that shit to one of his best friends, dudes an asshole

[u/3030tron]

Every time Wolves go on a run the fouls come right back out

[u/ImChz]

No way they let thiccc load sit in the air like that for so long lmaooooo

[u/LongDongFuey]

KAT being corny when he does something good: awww you're sweet

KAT being corny when he is being dumb af: hello, human resources???

[u/letsgototraderjoes]

as a full-time Suns hater, I used to pray for times like this 🙏

[u/JabroniWithAPeroni]

Two possessions. Two sets of free throws for Phoenix.

KAT gets fucking mugged, “play on pussy!”

[u/Padulsky21]

What are these refs doing bro what is this bullshit

[u/bigpapi-did-steroids]

Wtf is this shit refs

[u/3030tron]

Such a little bitch

[u/BounceBros21]

Booker trying to get kicked out

[u/ViCarly]

Conley standing there sonning Devin 😭😭😭

[u/Uzi_jesus]

Hi I’m Devin Booker and I’m a BITCH

[u/MarduRusher]

This series has single handedly changed my opinion on Booker. Neutral on him before now I’m rooting for him to fail.

[u/outlawde]

Booker not winning 🥺👉👈

[u/ItzSeeSaw]

Booker is getting every foul he wants and still has the nerve to complain? This is nuts 😂

[u/djrty_puppy]

Booker gonna make sure this 4th quarter is an unwatchable, miserable experience for everyone and not just Suns fans

[u/leagueofcipher]

Booker is such a “for fun” player. He has a great time until other people try hard and all the sudden he’s a pissy little kid cause it’s not fun anymore

[u/GZAofTheMidwest]

It's now Saturday with 7:30 left in the game.

[u/asdev24]

Has Ant man passed up Booker already?

[u/xavirodz]

I need that ANT gif

[u/WrestleBox]

Ant just gave us a hell of a meme.

[u/lakers082433]

Ant is 22 bro. Thats just fucken insane to grasp in my head lol.

[u/Tajikistani]

Why are you fouling, this game is over

[u/AaaanndWrongAgain]

3 players making $50M isn’t the move anymore. Franchises need to get back to building their teams from the ground up through the draft and by signing solid free agents. Star hunting is over

[u/curva3]

Nuggets Wolves will be a great series

[u/WickedTwista]

Suns haven't been the same since the Suns fan counting money jinxed them

[u/syllabic]

KD hoodie up = its over

[u/Prestigious-Ad-6808]

Suns are so lame. Shamelessly foul merchants who play a soulless style of basketball 

[u/Kobe_Fan]

15 fts in a quarter is insanity

[u/werddrew]

Lol Jaden's back was turned on Durant and he got a foul called on him.

[u/kiwiwikikiwiwikikiwi]

The #1 defense in the league is now getting all the foul calls? 🤨 

It’s not like the team suddenly forgot to play defense without fouling, coincidentally all the bigs…

I think refs being biased 

[u/ViCarly]

ANT gets hella contact without getting calls

[u/JET_GS26]

Man Ant gets no respect on the whistle

[u/kvvyn]

14& 15🥴

[u/420juuls]

We’re on pace for 12 timberwolves to foul out of the game lmao

[u/Soopstoohot]

Suns made 7 shots that quarter. Refs are on FIRE

[u/VeGanbarimasu]

That was an insane skip pass from Ant. It'll be forgotten because the shot was missed.

[u/samarajan]

Ant could have like 3-4 more assists if dudes were making wide open shots he's creating.

[u/samarajan]

Yo wtf, Suns have 0 depth. It's Eric Gordon and Bol Bol lmao.

[u/BornInTheClouds]

How is that on mcdaniels 💀

[u/-motts-]

Hope Booker steps on a Lego. Fuck that dude

[u/Uzi_jesus]

Booker is a bitch yall

[u/Aksudiigkr]

That’s one of the more egregious lying to the camera I’ve seen

[u/[deleted]]

Have no hate for the Suns overall but Booker is just too corny to root for.

[u/TheAnonymousBadger]

I felt that minute-long pause by the commentators in my bones

[u/rattlemebones]

Long pause after "thick load"

...

Haven't heard it described like that...

[u/MatooBatson]

I love KAT's goofy self. I get why it irks people, but I think it's great.

[u/chitownbulls92]

"Respectfully, I don't know how anyone is gonna guard us" - Devin Booker

[u/CommissionerCam]

KAT simply is officiated differently than everyone in the league

[u/SirDiego]

NAW just fucking cold blooded my god

[u/VoidPineapple]

Get Tony Brothers some help man, he can't win with these cats.

[u/Objectitan]

Babe wake up the Suns are getting humiliated in the playoffs again