Wolves put up a good effort under the circumstances but just ran out of gas in the second half

Probably ran out of clean underwear too

Apparently ran out of clean tunnels and clean towels

What do you think they did when they ran out of underwear?

They went full commando.

I can't believe the refs poisoned the Wolves' catering.

If it's Norovirus like it sounds like, it's SUPER contagious. Jordan Flu Game is gonna have nothing on the ADiarrhea play-in game.

Nah, there was a lot of gas. And at certain times there was an extra surprise with the gas.

Honestly I have no idea how they played. KAT didn’t eat anything all day because he would puke it up. No wonder they had 0 energy

Maybe they shouldn’t play. I don’t to be guarding a big sickie.

Definitely shouldnt have played thats gross

They had to because due to the illness and 2 of our other players injured, there weren’t enough healthy players for a rotation. Game should have been postponed

Should be a forfeit really if you can’t field a team, but we should normalize players not going to the arena if they are sick and contagious.

yea you can clearly see in second half they are shooting wide open 3s and are way off I hope they get better soon, and don't pass the illness to Lakers

They're commiting bio-warfare

Learning from the Mongols

Minnesota is very similar to the mongolian steppe in a lot of ways

I've been saying this for years

Finally someone gives us some credit

my score is too low

I know you’re joking, but I looked up some photos. Southwestern Minnesota, absolutely. The rest of the state, not really lol.

Many people don’t know this, but we’re quite adept at shooting arrows while moving on horseback. Some say we were born in the saddle.

Targets aren’t supermarkets here like they are in the rest of the country, they’re archery ranges

We are the home of Target though. Coincidence? I think not.

getting sick a month before the playoffs so you've got antibodies by the time everyone else is just getting it...smartest team in the league

6d chess… or bio-terrorism. Tomato tomato

Ofc Gobert is on the team he's the expert

lesser appreciated world-historical event…

Timberwolves to AD: Can I interest you in this slightly used blanket…?

Lose the battle, win the war?

I mean we are hurting ourselves more than anything…

Suns look really good tonight two days after the wolves game if that makes you feel better

It makes me feel better. Thank you.

Gosh I feel so great! Just absolutely wonderful! Ugh.

Incubation period for most illnesses is longer than 2 days I'm still highly stressed about it as a suns fan

The Raptors Disorder

I mean, the Wolves have done that when they aren't sick

That sounds like the Bucks in the playoffs

Why tf is ant playing 38 mins when he’s sick like that

He said taking games off was for pussies earlier in the year and is keeping that energy

Well 🤷‍♂️ he backing up what he said. Honestly can’t hate it at all

Normally I would say take the time to start feeling better. But I respect the fuck outta any player that’s trying their hardest to be out there every night. There’s a fine balance to it all, but the league has gone a little towards the soft side.

Yeah I mean honestly we probably would’ve been better off without him last night with how sick he was but I can’t fault him for playing. He’s battled so hard to keep us competitive this year so that we could play these meaningful games late down the stretch and the whole team just got decimated by a flu, fucking sucks.

Good for him

Two of the backup SG’s were out (Nowell and Rivers). Naz is hurt so they need TP at forward. Plus everyone else had it too. But yeah, Ant was dreadful probably because of it.

because he wants to make the playoffs...?

why are they allowed to play if they had illness? if someone is throwing up that's not a good sign to make him return

They wanted to be like Mike

Seriously, as long as the flu game is so romanticized, players will think it’s a good idea.

The one thing that I think we can all agree is tougher today than back then is the fuckin flu lmao

Flu aka food poisoning

Which honestly is even more impressive

Some of the guys didn’t have pto saved up yet.

248 hours. I have all of the PTO.

Locker rooms getting the flu or stomach bugs happen pretty commonly, ~~we~~ the Lakers got hit with it last year iirc

I can remember when our cheerleaders had a mono outbreak. My entire basketball team had it in a week lol.

Now that’s what I call team spirit.

we learned nothing from 2020 haha

Because it was arguably one of the biggest games of the season.

We wouldn't have enough players probably

i edited my comment. i mean at the 2nd half why did they chose to play Ant more. That shit is dangerous

I mean, it was like the biggest game of the regular season.

Not sure, but Ant plays through everything and has that old school mentality so I wouldn't be surprised if he forced their hand

that's what most likely happened

Biological warfare, if they going down might as well take other teams with them...

which microphone did Gobert touch

Probably touched everything in sight

oh god not the kids!

Karl Malone has entered that chat

*The NBA ignores that*

He slobbed my knob 😩

Did he get the cream?

Dollar dollar bill y'all

This is how bird flu spreads among humans

Oh god, not again lol.

sadly, it's his finger in teammates assholes this time

is it not contagious? if so, should the teams they've been playing be worried?

If it’s norovirus, it’s one of the most contagious illnesses out there.

Ohh fuck shut down the league and get the bubble ready!!!

Someone said bubble?!?!

LeBron licking his chops

AD lining it from the three.

TJ Warren becoming Jordan once more.

Suns never lose again

Gobert stretching his arms already

Clippers bout to protest

weren't Suns 8-0 in the bubble?

Yessirrr And we got Bubble Warren 😳

Butler grinding up some beans.

[Lakers fans recycling the old gear from the closet](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FMs559ZX0AAvK95.jpg)

Gobert licking his mics.

Murray just called up his girlfriend

ADisney on the way!

Need the Lebron James of virologists

IT'S FAUCI TIME

So the 2nd best virologist

Well the Bill Russell of virology is retired but did do some incredible work in the pioneering days of virology and immunolgy

LeMickey Mouse: the return

Reaves finna be FMVP…INJECT THIS IN MY VEINS!!!

I'll take a Murray vs Mitchell sequel... :) Hands down my favorite playoff series ever.

Jimmy Butler bringing an expresso maker this time.

That’s ADisney’s music playing

Why do you think it's norovirus

Educated guess based on the description of a stomach bug that’s ravaging the entire locker room at roughly the same time.

ive worked at a daycare for four years this is definitely the stomach bug and no one is safe!

Agreed. I know because my toddler got it and then passed it to me and I spent all last Friday night vomiting my guts out every other hour for about 6 hours. Then it subsided but I didn’t feel back to my normal self for about 4-5 days.

Same had to have yogurt 24/7 diet to settle and rebuild that good gut biome, too about 8-10 days though to feel normal. I was also pooping my face off it was a double attacks

Same I got attacked from the North and the South it was a shit-show, literally

Yep, Norovirus ripped through my family about a month and a half ago. Toddler got sick from daycare, we thought it was food poisoning. Next thing you know its my sister, her boyfriend, my mother, myself. Its definitely going around. Probably the sickest I've been in years, and I had covid too. Spent about 10 hours in the bathroom leaking from both ends. Once the worst passes you turn a corner pretty quickly, and from what ive read theres no long term risks or effects associated with it. Its just 10 hours of vile awfulness.

Yep I remember getting a stomach bug 2 months ago. I had a heater, heated blanket and 3 duvets and I felt like I was going into hypothermia. Then proceeded to struggle sleeping until I made it to the toilet, had explosive diarrhea and then as I was leaning over to grab some toilet paper I proceeded to puke through my nose and mouth for the next 40 seconds gasping for air the few moments before the next hurl came. Mind you at the same time ahit is coming out my ass like a black liquid Cleaned up the tub and then blew out the remaining vomit chunks out of my nose and throat and then used mouth wash and went to bed in peace. The virus then spread to the rest of our family 1 by 1 although none of them had to deal with the diarrhea

Yes I was also infected by toddler, why these mother [email protected] can’t wash their hands and stop eating their poop

Gotta love them kids for better or worse 😂

I was really sick a few weeks ago unlike I ever have been before with the same symptoms, now wondering if this is what I had

Registered Environmental Health Specialist here, if it is norovirus, it most likely happened because someone didn’t wash their hands after pooping 💩

Or someone has a small child to pick it up from

Yup VERY common.

First Matt Ryan and McLaughlin had it and then 2 other players were added to the injury report and now 8 of them have it - so it’s clearly contagious. It’s an “intestinal virus” and KAT said he couldn’t eat anything all day because he would puke it up. Honestly sounds like norovirus 😬 I don’t understand why the game wasn’t postponed. It could infect other teams and there’s not enough healthy players on the Wolves to have a rotation (which forces sick players to play). That’s fucked up

Yes the wolves are engaging the Lakers with biological warfare. We may have lost the battle tonight but we’ll win the war when they get sick lol. In all seriousness hope it doesn’t spread too much. Would suck if it spread to other teams right before the playoffs.

Ah shit, here we go again

They’ve been dealing with it since at least Saturday (Finch mentioned Ant missed a practice because he was sick) but other teams are yet to get sick.

Austin Rivers was there tonight didn’t you hear the announcers say his name after that white guy on the lakers scored inside

Here comes Austin Reavers!

[удалено]

I was playing lmao that’s why I called Reaves the white guy so it wouldn’t kill the joke

Whole team has the shits, which tracks, because all they did was shit themselves on the floor tonight

It’s a game of runs

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I had norovirus back in February along with my toddler and partner. It was a brutal day and a half of non stop vomiting every 20 minutes, I couldn’t imagine trying to play a sport lmao

Oh hmm maybe it’s not norovirus then because these players have had it for several days. Ant was listed with the illness since Saturday

Why the fu k they allowed to play this sick? What if they pass it on bruh ? Wtf

COVID taught us nothing it’s kinda funny actually. My office went from 2021 “someone confirmed covid! Everyone GTFO and shutting down building for 48 hours!” To this “someone had covid please don’t come to work if you feel sick, thanks!” Also no one washes their hands before they eat. I probably sound weird but whatever it’s confusing

Bro I was so excited that people were gonna start wearing masks when sick, it was going to be normalised. Going to the store real quick, put on a mask, now you don't have to feel guilty about picking up some snacks or something. Somehow It turned into a damn political statement, and you get even worse looks than wearing a mask pre-covid... I just don't wanna get anyone sick fam, it ain't all that.

Where your shit and don’t trip.

Oof. If it makes you feel better, some places definitely came out like you had hoped. Masks are pretty normalized around me after all that No one bats an eye and I hardly notice them these days

At least where I live, I hardly notice them because no one wears them. Sick or not. It boggles the mind.

If COVID taught me anything it's that I think people are fkn gross and no one washes their hands enough.

the two things i hate doing are shaking other peoples' hands or having to use somebody else's phone. people are fucking gross.

The world is weird. Washing hand before eating should be something important but lazy disgusting assholes makes sanitary ppl feel bad about it.

You feel bad about washing your hands because other people don't wash their hands?

Bruh, I have dudes taking a shit at work and not washing their hands after it. idk how people can be so disgusting.

Its about 60/40 nationally wash/not wash

COVID taught us in the health care sector that if we are sick, we don't get paid. So we go to work sick. Standard "sick time" hours we'd normally accumulate were no where near sufficient to deal with all the random bugs that were out there after society opened up. And, they took away the COVID sick time bank once it was clear COVID wasnt as deadly. So unless I was dying or couldn't speak and interact normally with patients, hi ho hi ho it's off to work I went and hoped for the best.

Except they all came to work feeling sick

Its arguably our most important game of the year and if they didnt we'd have gobert and 7 backups. 6 of our main rotation are sick, and naz is out.

Rudy was OK with it.

If the league didn't postpone the game we didn't really have a choice... Either show up with a 4 man rotation, forfeit, or play with sick players.

I'm glad they're all still playing and just spreading it to other teams.

I just hope the Lakers take their zinc tonight

Why are the wolves always sick

Cause they have Patient Zero?

Before, there was Agent Zero. Now, there is Patient Zero.

I don’t really have any proof of this but I’d be willing to bet at least a part of that due to the fact the geniuses over at the NBA think it makes any remote sense for us to be in the western conference. Our miles travelled are always incredibly high because of things like traveling halfway across the country the play our fierce rivals the Portland Trail Blazers.

Of course our entire team gets sick during the most important stretch of the season. My confidence in our playoff chances has flipped in just the last 48 hours. We were playing so well before this too. Fuck.

Don't worry, they got the Lakers sick right before the playoffs.

This raises a lot of questions in my mind. Does anyone know if there is any policy around this (not counting COVID protocol)? It's wild to me that a team could know (or have reason to believe/assume, depending on exactly how diagnosable specific illnesses are) that their player(s) have a contagious illness and allow them to play. One could easily see how this could affect the outcomes of key games or even a season.

I'd be interested in the policy too. 7 players have it. 2 are injured. Couldn't really field a team if they were forced to sit. League should've postponed the game.

Everyone in here wants to blame the Wolves, but why on earth would the league not just postpone the game... You'll never get a team to just straight up forfeit a game, especially when they are battling to make the playoffs at the end of the season

Intestinal flu will fuck you up, what was it, 6 guys on the team struggling with it this week? or was it 7?

8. Conley wasn’t listed but he’s sick and the others not listed were Jaden, Rudy, Nate Knight, Luka Garza and Moore and Minott. It’s possible they’re sick too though

Rudy!!

Well that explains the atrocious second half performance more I was watching and getting so frustrated

wolves better not have gotten our players sick

They were only breathing hard and sweating while playing a contact sport with the Lakers. NBD

We’ve learned nothing from the pandemic

They were also sick during the Suns game....I don't get why they don't just keep the sick players away for a few games.

NBA should have postponed the game. They had no choice but to play because the only healthy guys were Jaden, Rudy, our 2 rookies, Nate Knight and Luka Garza (at least they’re not listed but who knows they might be sick too). Naz and Nowell were injured so that’s at max 6 healthy guys. So the sick players have to play to have a full rotation. It’s fucked up I saw Ant throw up in a bucket in the tunnel. When Conley was subbed out he went straight to the locker room. KAT didn’t eat all day because his system would puke it up. I honestly don’t know how they managed to play

idk it might have been the most important game of the season so far. If over half our starters sat for an illness with 6 games left in a tight playoff race, we’d never hear the end of it. We get shit on enough the way it is.. I’m at least happy we put up a fight and hope the Suns/Lakers didn’t catch it

Because they still need to field a roster

Should’ve postponed the game then. But then lakers fans would cry then too

So disappointed in the timing. Right when they needed to make a big push. Feels like the teams had more than its share of rotten luck this year.

Naz, then sickness. Rough! Hopefully they get good enough for Sunday

How many teams are going to be stricken before the Wolves plane is designated a plague ship?

Do we know what illness it is?

Finch said intestinal flu.

Fucking league pulling a "MJ flu game" giving the wolves tainted pizza. Sons of bitches. Give it a year and Ant will be dropping 63 while puking mid dunk! Yep. Yes sir.

We’re they at the Celtics Bucks game in the crowd? Heard these was a lot of illness being projected about.

Great time to have KAT and Ant in the championship

Why would no one want to hear this?

Hes saying it to wolves fans as a “no wolves fan wants to hear excuses right now but” kind of thing

Whenever I see this reporters name I always wonder why the Duke coach is reporting nba drama

gobert infecting the league again smfh

One of the few players on the team that isn’t actually sick

Didn’t it start with the former laker, Matt Ryan, getting sick?

Makes sense why they fell apart in the second half, though they did play awful

Wolves should've went to "The LeBRON of FLU DOCTORS!" Maybe it's a secret plan to get the lakers sick though.

team with gobert on it gets sick. where have i seen this before.

Gobert strikes again 🤧

Three days later, league will be suspended again and bubble 2.0 will happen and eventually, the Los Angeles Lakers are your 2022-2023 nba champions

Does disease just like, follow Gobert?

Kevin Durant, Lebron James, Steph Curry smell Illness in the West...

In Boston they can taste it

Oh god it took me too long to realize what you were talking about so gross lmao

If a team is incapable of playing due to the norovirus, is there a league rule on what happens? Is it a forfeit? Is it a draw? If three players have it now, the whole team will be down tomorrow.

The whole team was down they’ve been dealing with this for like a week and more guys keep getting sick

Jesus what happened

[ugh](https://i.imgur.com/07HQfso.png)

Illness is not just bad luck, if they were really good they would have stayed healthy. Durability is a characteristic... /s, obviously

Lakers better wash their fucking hands after that game