Wolves Post-Season Hopes End

It's about time. After a season that began painfully and remained painful for the whole year, the Minnesota Timberwolves are finally done. They'll go through the motions for the few remaining regular seasons games--just like they have all year--and then go home and lick their wounds.

I remember early in the season when the Wolves started a little slow. They were around the .500 mark and everyone was panicking. "Settle down," I said. "They'll bounce back. It's still early."

The Wolves proceeded to prove me wrong time after time. They flirted with the .500 mark for too long. By the time they put a run together, it was too late. They couldn't sustain it anyway.

How does a team go from one of the top four in the NBA to a bottom-half club in one year? How do they do that with virtually the same players? Even more baffling, how does a team have a must-win game on their home court and lose by 15 points? They didn't even put up a real fight.

The Timberwolves lackluster play in a game that had everything on the line backs up my claim that the NBA is a lost cause. Compared to college basketball, it's not even a sport.