Wolves at Warriors tonight: Get 'em to the arena on time

Kevin Martin and Alexey Shved good to go for Wolves, David Lee and Andrew Bogut to start for Warriors

January 25, 2014 at 3:49AM
Wolves head coach Rick Adelman complained about a foul not called during the first half at the Target Center in Minneapolis Saturday, January 18, 2014. ] (KYNDELL HARKNESS/STAR TRIBUNE) kyndell.harkness@startribune.com
Wolves head coach Rick Adelman (Tom Wallace — DML - Star Tribune Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The Wolves' second bus carrying coach Rick Adelman and players Dante Cunningham and Corey Brewer, among others, didn't pull into Oracle Arena tonight unless than an hour before game time.

It was hung up in Bay Area rush hour traffic and delayed even further by an accident one freeway exit away from the Oakland arena.

Most of the team's players arrived on the first bus -- or earlier -- and were in the locker room more than an hour before that. The big topic of conversation in there tonight was following New York's Carmelo Anthony's scoring night back east as Melo went from 20 first-quarter points and just kept going to a 62-point night in just 38 minutes.

Asked if arriving so late would affect a player, Adelman said, "I hope not."

Kevin Martin and Alexey Shved will play, btw.

Martin will wear a wrap on that lacerated pinkie finger on his right shooting hand while Shved will wear a clear protective mask on his broken nose.

Shved said he will wear the mask for three weeks and seemed happy to do so "because I can play the games" with it.

David Lee and Andrew Bogut will start for the Warriors after both were listed as questionable for tonight.

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Somebody asked Warriors coach Mark Jackson if he makes a different decision on those two guys in January than he does in, say, March and he said, "No, I haven't got my Pop on yet."

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