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Thunder look to get back in win column against Towns-less Timberwolves

Karl-Anthony Towns is out due to illness as both Oklahoma City and the Timberwolves look to bounce back from big losses over the weekend.

Both the Oklahoma City Thunder and Minnesota Timberwolves are coming off substantial losses over the weekend.

While the Thunder dropped a 125-110 game at home to a Lakers team that didn’t have LeBron or Anthony Davis, the Timberwolves fell by 30 on the road at Houston.

Though they each lost the last game they played, the two teams are trending in the opposite direction. Oklahoma City has been one of the hottest teams over the past five weeks and since beating the Timberwolves in overtime on December 6, the Thunder have gone 14-5 with wins streaks of four and five games.

The Wolves, on the other hand, went 2-12 in the month of December, struggling to find their way without Karl-Anthony Towns who has been sidelined with a knee injury.

The New Year has been slightly more kind to Minnesota, they’re 3-3 in games played in 2020.

However, the Timberwolves will still be without Towns on Monday. According to Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic, Towns’ absence against the Thunder is due to illness and not injury.

The last time these two got together it resulted in “Jersey-gate” when Chris Paul pointed out Jordan Bell’s untucked jersey as Bell was checking into the game in the final seconds.

That led a technical foul, a court-length pass, and buzzer-beater that allowed Oklahoma City to go on to beat the Timberwolves in OT.

Paul was then assessed two delay-of-game violations related to his uniform in OKC’s next game on Dec. 9 against the Trail Blazers.

CP3 responds to refs ‘y’all can thank Chris Paul’ comment

Chris Paul responded to Knicks guard Elfrid Payton being told he could “thank Chris Paul” for a delay of game call for his untucked jersey.

Chris Paul is pretty much always aware of what’s going on, so there was no chance that the Thunder point guard was going to miss a referee telling Knicks point guard Elfrid Payton that he could “thank Chris Paul” for getting a delay of game violation when he checked into Sunday night’s game against the Nuggets while tucking in his jersey.

The play happened with 4:11 left in the first quarter and Denver leading 16-12.

Payton looked at the ref and raised his hands when the whistle blew.

The courtside mics clearly caught the ref telling Payton “y’all can thank Chris Paul for that”.

HouseofHighlights posted the clip on their Instagram, which drew a response from CP3. Paul tagged Payton along with three crying laughing emojis and a shrug emoji.

The ongoing untucked jersey saga in the NBA started when Paul called out Jordan Bell for checking into the Thunder’s game against Minnesota with an untucked jersey on December 7.

Bell was whistled for a delay of game violation, which led to technical free throws for Oklahoma City. A wild sequence of events followed that allowed OKC to tie the game on buzzer-beater from Dennis Schroder. The Thunder went on to beat Minnesota in overtime.

Paul was then called for two delay of game violations two days later in Oklahoma City’s game against the Trail Blazers.

It is an NBA rule that all players must have their jerseys tucked in when they enter a game.

Ref tells Knicks guard to ‘thank Chris Paul’ for delay of game call

Elfrid Payton was whistled for a delay of game penalty for having an untucked jersey in the Knicks game against Denver.

Turns out, Chris Paul isn’t the only one refs “got” for not tucking in a jersey.

During New York’s game against the Nuggets on Sunday night, Knicks guard Elfrid Payton was whistled for a delay of game for tucking in his jersey as he was entering the game.

When the whistle blew, Payton looked at the ref with his hands in the air.

The courtside mics picked up the ref telling Payton, “y’all thank Chris Paul for that”.

Paul has raised the level of scrutiny on proper attire for players when entering a game since he called out Jordan Bell for coming into the Thunder’s game against Minnesota with an untucked jersey back on December 7.

What followed was a wild sequence of events that included a made technical free throw, a full-court length pass, and a buzzer-beater to tie the game. Oklahoma City went on to beat the Timberwolves in overtime.

Following the Jordan Bell jersey incident, Paul was whistled for two delay of game violations in OKC’s next game. Paul said of those calls that the refs “got him back” and were “trying to make a point”.

The NBA rules clearly state that players should have their uniforms tucked in when entering the game. “If his shirt is untucked when he is beckoned into the game by the official, a delay of game violation shall be assessed”.

Chris Paul: Ref ‘got me back’ with delay-of-game calls

Two days after a delay-of-game violation and technical foul helped OKC beat Minnesota, Paul was assessed delay-of-games against Portland.

Turns out the delay-of-game violations go both ways.

Two days after Paul helped get a delay-of-game violation and technical foul assessed against the Timberwolves, a move that ultimately led to an Oklahoma City win in overtime, on Monday night against the Trail Blazers, Paul and OKC were both delay-of-game violations and a technical foul.

Nick Friedell of ESPN detailed how the situation unfolded.

Referee Brian Forte whistled the Thunder for both delay-of-game violations. The first came in the first quarter with 53 seconds left — a violation Thunder coach Billy Donovan is still unclear about — while the second violation came with 2:31 left in the second quarter resulting in a technical foul.

When the second violation was assessed, the microphones picked up Paul, who was obviously unhappy with the call.

“You’re trying to prove a point,” Paul said. “You’re going to be on SportsCenter tonight, good job! You’re going to be on SportsCenter tonight.”

According to Friedell, Billy Donovan said after the game that he didn’t see the violations.

“The first one I’m not really sure about,” Donovan said. “The second one, the explanation was they stepped on the floor with their sweats on. I didn’t see it. … As they were stepping on the court they were taking their sweats off. That’s what was said, but I’m going to see. I don’t want to say yes or no, I just want to see. Because I hadn’t had a chance really to see it.

Meanwhile, Paul told reporters after the game that “he got me back”.

“Two delay of games, on me? They both was on me, wasn’t it? That was good. He got me, he got me back.”

When asked if it was in response to the situation with Jordan Bell on Friday night, Paul responded, “what you think?”

The 34-year-old veteran did say that he learned something from the whole ordeal: that you can’t have your shooting shirt and your pants on when you’re checking in.

“I learned something new,” Paul said. “But we won, so I’m good.”.