Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers welcome the Minnesota Timberwolves. The big news here is not Brandon Roy's three game benching vacation, the reports that Roy is an "unhappy camper," or the rumor of Joel Przybilla and Nicolas Batum being shipped off to Philadelphia, nope, it's the Three Goggles T-shirt. Because there is nothing like a T-shirt that honors Rudy Fernandez for a shot that he can no longer make. Can I get a shirt with 32.7% on it? Because that's Rudy's percentage on three-pointers.
From the stat vault! Here is the Blazers starting lineup from the last time the Timberwolves won a game in this building: Sebastian Telfair, Zach Randolph, Joel Przybilla, Martell Webster, and Viktor Khryapa*. Ouch. That was December 7, 2005, and since that game Portland has won a dozen consecutive contests against Minnesota. Will they make it lucky number 13 tonight?
* Ironically three of those five players will likely see minutes tonight, although Webster and Telfair are on the Timberwolves. No clue what became of Khryapa.