The Minnesota Timberwolves have seemingly cracked the code when it comes to their starting lineup, which remains the league’s best five-man lineup.
Just how good is the Timberwolves’ ‘Greatest Lineup Ever?’
Objectively, the starting lineup of D’Angelo Russell, Patrick Beverley, Anthony Edwards, Jarred Vanderbilt, and Karl-Anthony Towns has been the best five-man lineup in the entire league this season — and it hasn’t been particularly close. (The term Greatest Lineup Ever was coined by NBA.com’s John Schumann, by the way, in a mid-December power rankings article.)
Using the admittedly somewhat arbitrary number of 40 minutes played together for each five-man unit — which still gives us 169 different lineup combinations, by the way — the Wolves’ preferred starting five has a net rating of +50.5 in 142 minutes.
The next-best lineup is a Cleveland Cavaliers grouping that holds a +40.6 but only played 41 minutes together prior to Ricky Rubio’s season-ending injury….
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