Wednesday's Page 2 tipsheet

May 2, 2018 at 12:50AM
Minnesota Timberwolves guard Jimmy Butler (23) in the first half of an NBA basketball game Thursday, April 5, 2018, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Butler (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

TIPSHEET

KNOW THIS

Timberwolves guard Jimmy Butler belted out "Let Me Love You" by Mario around 2:30 a.m. recently at a club in Chicago called PRYSM. TMZ reports that T-Pain was the headliner but that Jimmy Buckets "stole the show" with his impromptu singing.

WATCH THIS

Ricky Rubio's hamstring injury takes some of the local interest out of the Jazz/Rockets series, but it's still worth watching Game 2 to see if Houston can keep rolling. 7 p.m., TNT.

RANDOM FANDOM

"My bold prediction is that the Wild make a host of moves, most of them utterly meaningless (swapping one warm body for the next) and a first-round playoff exit in 2019. No wait, I meant to say that this is what I saw in 2018. No, 2017. No, 2016. No, 2015. Ohforgetit."

"bdautobahn" commenting on startribune.com.

TWEETED

"On May 1, MLB hitters have 6,994 hits — and 7,335 strikeouts. It is the first time in baseball history there were more strikeouts than hits in a calendar month."

@jareddiamond

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Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune

The center had called on coach Chris Finch to start benching players who give lackluster effort on defense.