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I don’t understand people who come to sports to feel rage, or agony, or panic. At least, I don’t understand those people anymore (I once was one). I have consumed the new golden era of Timberwolves basketball the past few seasons with a sense of calm that I think alarms the rest of my Wolves-fan pals. I think that rooting for a hopeless and hapless team for so long gave me a new perspective on the simplicity of sports: It is the clearest example of zero-sum. There is only one championship, and only one team can win it. For a sliver of time, all of the teams share the same odds, and thereafter the statistics likely don’t work in your team’s favor—or if they do it doesn’t last for long. And so I no longer understand a mentality of fandom that insists that you can only feel good about a team if they win a championship. It seems, to me, that that sets one up for years of disappointment, with, perhaps, one bright spot, or two if you are lucky. [...]

I’ve decided that I delight in watching the Timberwolves fight almost as much as I delight in seeing them prevail at the end of the fight. When I turn on a Timberwolves game, even now, I feel distinctly aware that I need to find pleasure in something other than victory, and so I’ve chosen to find pleasure in rooting for a team that doesn’t back down, that shows up ready more often than it doesn’t (though I am, intentionally, not mentioning Game Two of this Spurs series), and a team that has managed to correct all that I believed about it during the dark decades. I am enjoying these Timberwolves precisely because I know how bad it can get, I know how easy it is for a team to slip back into perennial badness, and I am training my heart to not fall too much in love with whatever this diﬀerent thing is, because there is a chance that, at some point in the future, I will be longing for these Timberwolves while watching a version of the team that is not rising to the same heights. And I’ll have to love that team, too, as easily as I love this one. (Hanif Aburraqib)

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