They still got the Lakers. Lakers supposed to win. That’s how it’s supposed to go and how it’s supposed to be.” It’s debatable whether that’s still true. Minnesota has received plenty of praise in the wake of its impressive performance to open the series,

The Lakers were outplayed on multiple fronts on Saturday and will need to adjust to Minnesota’s physicality and “control the controllables,” as LeBron James says, in Tuesday’s Game 2.

After the Minnesota Timberwolves stunned the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series, leading by as much as 27 points on Los Angeles' home court, Anthony Edwards was asked if he had a message for all of the national media that picked the Lakers to win.