The Minnesota Timberwolves have seen the majority of their roster out due to COVID-19 over the last few weeks. A recent report from ESPN lists the Wolves as the team hit the fourth-hardest in the league in terms of value lost to health and safety protocols.
Exploring the impact COVID has had on the Timberwolves’ record
Over the past three weeks, nine of the 16 players on the Minnesota Timberwolves roster have landed on the COVID-19 health and safety protocols list and missed at least one game.
This includes all five starters, and at the peak of the outbreak, the team only had two members of its regular rotation available to play.
While it’s not trivial to try and measure just how much actual on-court impact the illness has had over the past few weeks, ESPN’s Kevin Pelton took a stab (ESPN Insider subscription required).
The methodology was to take a player’s average minutes per game and multiply them by the number of games missed due to health and safety protocols. Then, Pelton…
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