Dads And Dunks: Your To-The-Point Wolves Talk Podcast

This one hurts and thrills in equal measure. We lost Naz Reid. The towels, the undrafted-to-Sixth-Man-of-the-Year story, the fan favorite who filled the arena and our hearts. We are not okay about it, and we are keeping every piece of Naz memorabilia we own. But then LaMelo Ball walked through the door, and we are going all in on Anthony Edwards and Rudy Gobert. Buy, buy, buy. Ant finally gets a 6...

Wolves are out. Spurs in 6. Tom and Josh break down the playoff exit, the offseason questions, and the reasons for hope. Topics include: The Denver win we'll never forget (Ayo's 43, Jaden's smack talk, Rudy shutting down Jokic) The Spurs reality check (Wemby is real, and not as ethical as advertised) Ant's cagey postgame and what it really meant DDV's absence and what it cost us Championship habit...

Wolves are moving on. Tom and Josh preview Round 2 against the San Antonio Spurs. In this episode: What changes when you go from the worst rim protection in the league (Denver) to one of the best (Wemby and the Spurs). Whether the downhill attack that buried the Nuggets still works against San Antonio. Rudy Gobert vs Victor Wembanyama and what that matchup could look like. Ant's status and wha...

The Wolves are moving on. Tom and Josh break down a Game 6 win in Minneapolis that had no business happening on paper. No Anthony Edwards. No Donte DiVincenzo. No Ayo Dosunmu. No Slo Mo. And the Wolves still ran Denver out of Target Center 110-98 to close the series. In this episode: Jaden McDaniels' legacy game (career-high 32 points, 10 boards, 3 assists, zero turnovers in 45 minutes) and th...

Minnesota Timberwolves vs Denver Nuggets Game 4 recap. Wolves win 112-96 to take a commanding 3-1 series lead in the first round of the 2026 NBA Playoffs, but the night came with major injuries. Donte DiVincenzo suffered an Achilles tear two minutes into the game and is out for the remainder of the playoffs and most of next season. Anthony Edwards hyperextended his left knee in the second quarter,...

Wolves take a 2-1 series lead with a statement Game 3 win at Target Center, 113-96. Tom and Josh break down the blowout on the first-ever instant reaction Fast Break pod. Jaden McDaniels backed up his postgame comments from Game 2 with 20 points, 10 rebounds, a block, and 41 minutes of setting the tone. Ayo Dosunmu erupted off the bench for 25 points and 9 assists on 66.7% shooting. Rudy Gobert he...

Series tied 1-1. The Wolves flipped a 19-point hole in Denver and stole Game 2 on the road, 119-114. Tom and Josh break it down: Anthony Edwards grinding out 30 and 10 on a bad knee, Julius Randle's massive bounce-back game (24-9-6 on 17 shots), Donte DiVincenzo going plus-20 with four catch-and-shoot threes and a game-sealing dunk, and Rudy Gobert holding Jokic to 1-of-8 with Rudy on the floo...

Game 1 is in the books, and Tom and Josh are calling an audible for the playoffs: 15 to 25-minute drops after every game. Denver takes the opener 116-105, and there's a lot to unpack. First, the officiating. Jamal Murray shot 16 for 16 from the line. The Wolves as a team shot 19. We get into the uneven whistle, the Jaden flagrant, the Jokic-McDaniels scrum, and why Murray's free-throw rate...

The regular season is done and the Wolves are locked in as the six seed headed to face Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets. Today we do something a little different. A quick season in review, the Denver matchup broken down, Ant in the playoffs, the Rudy/Slo Mo/Jokic rotation puzzle, play-in predictions for both conferences, every first-round pick, and a full bracket all the way to the NBA Finals....

The Wolves go 1-3 this week, and it is not great. Tom took his five-year-old, Julien, to his first Wolves game on Easter Sunday against Charlotte -- spoiler, they left at halftime, and it was the right call. We break down the week, talk about what Ant and Jaden being hurt actually means heading into a first-round matchup with Denver, dig into the stat that shows Ant elevates against the best teams...

The Wolves went 1-1 this week, but one of those games will go down in history. Minnesota came back from 13 points down in overtime to beat the Houston Rockets 110-108 — the largest overtime comeback since the NBA began tracking play-by-play data in 1997. Oh, and Scott Foster was the ref. Fuck that guy. We break down both games in full, get into the Scott Foster file, and debate whether the NBA nee...

3-1 without Anthony Edwards! It's all good, right? Not so fast. This week, Tom and Josh break down a Wolves squad navigating the stretch run without their best player and discovering that Julius Randle might not be the alpha they were banking on. Finch publicly called him out for his rebounding effort. And Josh loved it. The bench outplayed Julius in three of four games. And Tom takes a detour...

Ant drops 40 on Memphis, posterizes RJ Barrett in Toronto, and the Wolves go two and one on the week, but Julius Randle shooting 15% from three in March is impossible to ignore. Tom and Josh recap all three games, dig into Randle's month-by-month three-point collapse, and work through six fan submissions covering the biggest questions facing this roster: Is this team deeper than the last two W...

The Wolves went 3-0 this week, with wins over Portland (124-121), the Clippers (94-88), and Denver (117-108). Jaden McDaniels was the standout against the Blazers, drawing praise from Jamal Crawford, while Ant continued his clutch-time dominance despite some efficiency concerns. The Clippers win featured a gritty fourth-quarter comeback and sparked conversation about the Ant-Finch dynamic after Ed...

Ant drops 40 on Dallas, wins All-Star MVP, and then calls out Cade Cunningham — and the Wolves turn around and get smoked by the 76ers. Classic Wolves basketball. This week, Tom and Josh recap both post-All-Star break games, break down what Ant's All-Star MVP historically means for a player's future, and dig into the Wolves' brutal remaining schedule (third hardest in the league). Plus...

We're halfway there and livin' on a prayer that this team figures it out in the second half. The Wolves hit the All-Star break sitting 6th in the West despite having better talent than last year. What went wrong, and can they turn it around? We break down Julius Randle's ridiculous All-Star snub (1000 pts, 250 rebs, 250 ast - only 7 players hit that, all All-Stars except him), recap th...

The Wolves went 1-3 this week despite adding Ayo Dosunmu at the deadline. Tom and Josh break down the team's defensive collapse (29th ranked after being 2nd the week before), Finch's confusing response to Rudy's callout, and why Julius Randle continues to frustrate. Special guest Justin from JTalksHoops joins to give the Bulls fan perspective on Ayo and Julian Phillips - what the Wolve...

EMERGENCY POD! Tim Connelly made his moves at the trade deadline. The Wolves traded Rob Dillingham, Leonard Miller, and four second-round picks to acquire Ayo Dosunmu and Julian Phillips from the Bulls. We break down why this is a HOWL, dive into Ayo's elite shooting stats (95th percentile from three!), discuss cap flexibility, and why we're glad we didn't mortgage the future for Giann...

Minnesota Timberwolves podcast: Complete breakdown of the team's 4-0 week defeating the Golden State Warriors, Dallas Mavericks, Oklahoma City Thunder, and Memphis Grizzlies. Episode highlights: Naz Reid's impact: +13 net rating, 10th in NBA in made threes since December 1st Jaden McDaniels shooting 44.5% from three - All-Star trajectory? Anthony Edwards' clutch mid-range mastery Beati...

Listener note: If you need a full break from the weight of the world right now, feel free to skip the first five minutes of this episode. We open by addressing the Timberwolves game postponement, why it happened, and how the ongoing ICE presence and violence in our community is affecting families, kids, and the city as a whole. We didn’t feel it would be honest or authentic to move straight into b...

The Wolves go 1–2 this week, and somehow we still feel good about it. We break down the full week: a 139–106 stomp of the Bucks , a sloppy 110–105 loss to the Rockets without Ant, and an all-time fun 126–123 comeback loss to the Spurs featuring Anthony Edwards’ 55 points and a nuclear fourth quarter. We also dig into the feel-good story of Joan Beringer earning real rotation minutes (and why Finch...

The Wolves had a big week: they blew out the Heat 122–94, beat the Cavs 131–122, got outscored in the Cavs rematch 146–134, and then pulled off a monster 19-point comeback to beat the Spurs 104–103. Ant continues to improve as a scorer and becomes the third-youngest player ever to reach 10,000 points (10K in the land of 10,000 lakes). We break down what’s changed in his game. The shot-making from...

This week on Dads and Dunks , the Timberwolves finish 3–1 with wins over the Bulls, Wizards, and Heat — and one ugly, frustrating loss to the Hawks. We break down: A dominant blowout of Chicago , powered by Naz Reid, elite ball security, and full-team buy-in A bad Hawks loss defined by turnovers, paint defense, effort, and some despondent postgame quotes A bounce-back win over Miami , led by Antho...

The Wolves go 1–2 in a weird holiday week: a solid win over the shorthanded Knicks, an OT Christmas thriller loss to Denver, then a total letdown vs the Nets. We talk about the Ant ejection, his unreal corner 3 to force OT, and why you never want refs deciding the ending of a game that good. We also hit the stuff that’s starting to feel like a pattern: free throws (25th in the league), getting wre...

The Timberwolves took us on a full emotional roller coaster this week. A frustrating loss to the lowly Grizzlies, followed by a statement win against the best team in the West in OKC, and then a gritty, not-pretty win over an unimpressive Bucks team. Plus, Tom gets to defend Mike Conley. We break down what the OKC game tells us about this team’s ceiling, why playing down to competition is still a...