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It's hard to imagine a sports team around here has ever started a season with such little buzz as the Minnesota Timberwolves will Wednesday when they open the NBA season against the San Antonio Spurs.

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This was supposed to be a year of big payoffs for the local NBA entry. They made their first trip to the playoffs in more than a dozen years last year. They have plenty of talent. Their arena has been renovated and the team was going to cash in with high prices for tickets that would surely be in demand.

Then Jimmy Butler, one of the stars, announced he doesn't want to be in Minnesota anymore and there's very little Minnesotans despise more 

than people who don't like it here or want to be here 

The Timberwolves are going to try to play the season with an unhappy player but likely will have to trade him at some point in a market where they have no hope of getting equal value in return.

So is Drew Magary, the acerbic columnist at Deadspin who grew up in Minnesota. In a fan letters column today, he thinks 

pro basketball and Minnesota is never going to mix.

"Ship them to Seattle and be done with it," Magary concludes.

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It's like old times at Target Center; a Timberwolves season seems lost before it even begins.

Timberwolves ready to open a lost season

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