The Wolves Went Into OKC And Pulled Off Arguably One Of The Most Insane Comebacks In The History Of The NBA

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As I've said many, many times before, one of the best parts of NBA basketball being back in our lives is if you tune in on a nightly basis, there's a strong chance you're going to see some cool shit. There's a strong chance that you're going to witness something that has never happened before. 

Sometimes that means watching a center go out and drop 19 assists

and other times it means witnessing arguably one of the most impressive and electric comebacks in NBA history. A comeback so rare, that it doesn't matter how long you've been watching the NBA or how many games you've seen, you've quite literally never seen an ending and a comeback like what the Wolves were able to pull off on the road against OKC.

Again, there have been around 142,712 games (including playoffs) in NBA history. Outside of last night, we'd never, ever, seen a finish to a 4th quarter like we got in this MIN/OKC game, and man was that shit electric

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Honestly I'm not sure what part of this comeback is more impressive. The fact that the Wolves came back from 25, were down 16+ late in the 4th, the fact that pretty much the entire roster became unstoppable, or the fact that it came on the road vs OKC, a team with a legitimately historic defense. This was only the 3rd single digit game all year for OKC, and their first OT game of the season. 

Pulling off a comeback like this would be impressive no matter what, but to do it on the road against a historic team? Led by the supposed MVP in a building they were 25-3 in at the time? I dunno, that adds a little more juice to it for me. Also the block at the end by Ant on SGA, if that felt familiar, well it's because it's certainly not the first time he pulled out a massive block to seal a win

NBA teams in the last 20 seasons were 1-9,249 when trailing by at least 16 points with 3:45 or less left before this game. 

Earlier this season, the Wolves had another similar close/upset win over the Rockets

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So maybe, this is just what MIN does? Credit to them, they play until 0.0 is on the clock. Plenty of NBA teams pack it in and move on to the next game when down by that much that late in the 4th, so credit the Wolves for staying engaged and punching back, fighting until the final whistle. I respect the shit out of that given how quickly NBA players can sometimes waive the white flag in a blowout, especially on the second night of a B2B. Remember, MIN/OKC played Sunday as well, so to me that makes last night even more impressive.

And let's not forget, this was a pretty massive win for a team trying like hell to get out of the Play In and into the top 6. As it stands now, there's potential for MIN/OKC to be a first round playoff series should MIN lose the 7/8 Play In Game, and I wonder how OKC feels about that matchup. They split the season series 2-2, all the games have been close, and while OKC was missing Chet in this game, the Wolves were also down 2 starters in Gobert and Randle, and the Wolves have been one of the teams to play the Thunder the best so far this season. That'd be one hell of a series should MIN stay where they are (1 back in the loss column of LAC for 6th).

They have the length and physicality to cause problems for OKC's kind of mid offense, they have the star power to go blow for blow with SGA on any given night, the defense is legit, they have size, I dunno, I think this would be a fun ass way to kick off the first round of the Western Conference Playoffs. Once things slow down and all become about matchups, I'd love to see these two teams battle. 

So as I said, this is the beauty of the NBA. In one game you get a generational passer doing some shit we haven't seen since Wilt, and then in another game you get one of the best comebacks in NBA history. All on a normal Monday night in February. That rocks.