The Timberwolves went into the 2009-10 season hoping forwards Al Jefferson and Kevin Love and point guard Jonny Flynn would be the foundation of an NBA playoff contender in two or three years.

That was the modest timetable set forth by David Kahn when he took over as president of basketball operations in May.

Based on the Wolves’ 15-66 record heading into tonight’s season finale against Detroit at Target Center — and the varying degrees of disappointment experienced by Jefferson, Love and Flynn — it’s uncertain whether the franchise is on course to maintain long-range plans to build around the young trio.

Injuries, trade rumors and personal problems plagued Jefferson most of the season. Love never embraced coach Kurt Rambis’ decision to bring him off the bench, yet he arguably had the best overall season of any Wolves player and established himself as one of the NBA’s best rebounders.

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The Minnesota Timberwolves finally put an end to their long losing spell, and they did it against a team that had owned them over the last three years.


Ryan Gomes scored 27 points, the most by a Timberwolves player this season, and Minnesota snapped a 15-game losing streak with a 106-100 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Sunday night.

“Man, you don’t know how much a weight is off our shoulders right now,” Gomes said. “It was tough for us, but we had to battle. We knew it was going to break one day.”

The shock was it came against the Nuggets, who had won their previous 10 meetings against Minnesota and had been dominating at home, where they’d won 17 regular season games in a row dating to last spring.

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This isn’t a joke, even if it sounds like one after the Timberwolves’ historically abysmal 146-105 loss at Golden State on Monday night …

Two Oracle Arena employees walk into work late Monday afternoon.

One guy says to the other, “If we can’t beat Minnesota, there’s no hope.”

Ditto?

By the time it thankfully was over, the Wolves had tied franchise records for points allowed in a game and biggest margin of defeat.

“It’s an embarrassment,” Wolves forward Al Jefferson said. “We just got embarrassed.”


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