This murderous part of the Wolves schedule so late in the season continues tonight in Oklahoma City.
One night after they lost 104-96 in Dallas, the Wolves face a Thunder team that's prepping for the playoffs and that hasn't allowed 100 points in its last seven games.
Kevin Love's out for the second consecutive game because of that groin injury and Anthony Randolph again gets the start at power forward after Thursday's career-high 31-point (and 11-rebound performance).
If you heard the chatter on ESPN or saw the Internet headlines out of last night's game in Dallas, pay no attention to the talk that the Wolves are shutting Love down for the season.
There's a chance he might play Sunday against the Celtics. What happened in Dallas was this: Tom Hanneman asked Kurt Rambis on his pregame TV interview if there was a chance Love might not play again this season and Rambis said, well, yeah, with groins and hamstring, there's also a chance but he said it was a very outside chance.
What got picked up from an Associated Press story filed before the game and sent around the country was the notion that the Wolves are shutting Love down for the season.
Not true, although I guess there's "always a chance" he could suffer a setback with the injury.
I asked Rambis before tonight's game if he might try Randolph at point guard -- yes, a tongue-in-cheek question, but not too much of one after watching him push the ball and dish to Jonny Flynn late in Thursday's game -- and he said not yet.
