Bulls beat Timberwolves 114-105 in National Basketball Association preseason game

E’Twaun Moore led the way with 18 points while Aaron Brooks had the crowd ooo-ing and aww-ing with a serious of dribbles and drives throughout the game.

Wiggins has never been to Winnipeg before, so he said he is looking forward to getting to see a part of his home country for the first time.

Bulls head coach Fred Hoiberg wanted to see a bounce back game from his troops following a 112-94 loss to the Denver Nuggets Thursday, calling the “little bit adversity” created from the Bulls’ first preseason defeat “not the worst thing in the world” for his team. I know he’s not playing, but I hope he’s here.

After a rocky performance in their second game of the preseason, the Chicago Bulls bounced back on Saturday night with a 114-105 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves in Winnipeg. “He’s been playing basketball and teaching it before I was alive so I trust him with whatever he has to do with me”.

Wiggins received the loudest cheer when the No. 1 pick in the 2014 draft was introduced to the sold-out crowd of 15,294 at MTS Centre, many sporting shirts with his No. 22.

The forward entered the game and the end of the first quarter, and made his mark in the second.

Television viewership of NBA games in the country is up 54 percent since the 2012-13 season, including 76 percent on national sports network TSN.

The league has scheduled four preseason games in Canada this year, the largest slate a games in the short four-year history of a series aimed at growing the game the hockey-mad country.

With that being said, here’s three takeaways from the Bulls improving to 3-1 against the young Timberwolves. “We just kinda get our young guys, we got to come out to a better start defensively”.

When told Wiggins was trying to get 15 courtside seats, he said exhaled and said, “That’s Andrew, man. I’m pretty sure everyone wants to go see him”.

It’s no coincidence that Wiggins will play a prominent role this time around.

“I’m fine with that”.

“The vets on our team love to teach, whenever we do something wrong or right, or a good play, they’re always telling us why you should do this, why you should do that…”, Wiggins said. “I get to go back to my country and play in front of people I grew up around”, Wiggins said. “I hope they can do more”.

Minnesota closed the gap to 65-55 at halftime and made it a six-point deficit with just over 4 minutes left in the game before Chicago pulled away.

The Timberwolves play the Toronto Raptors in Ottawa on Wednesday. The Raptors play the Washington Wizards in Montreal to cap the series on October. 23.

Bennett left Minnesota because the team’s roster was crowded with power forwards and signed a league minimum contract with a Raptors team that already has Luis Scola, Patrick Patterson and DeMarre Carroll – to name just three – who can play that position.

Minnesota continues is brief Canadian pre-season tour on October 14th in Ottawa.