Michael Beasley was icing his ankle Tuesday afternoon. Someone asked about former Kansas State quarterback Josh Freeman wanting to play basketball when they were in college.
"I thought about playing football," Beasley said.
Position? "Quarterback."
His teammates paused, thought about it, then started laughing. One guy asked, how can a guy who never passes play quarterback?
"Man," said Martell Webster, "you'd be the first quarterback in history to be saying, 'What do we do again on that play?' "
You might ask what one of the worst teams in the NBA has to laugh about, and you'd be missing the point.
The point being: The Wolves have been so bad for so long that we view every loss as the latest indictment of a criminally stupid organization, instead of recognizing that this year's failures are different from last year's failures, and all of the failures since '05.
This is a bad team, of course. There isn't enough chocolate icing in the world to make 9-30 taste good. But for the first time in years, this is a bad team with some semblance of a plan.
This is not a team investing blind faith in Rashad McCants or J.R. Rider or Randy Foye, or even a likeable one-dimensional post player in Al Jefferson.
The way this team is being built almost makes sense, at least for a franchise that has looked to Rider or Mike James or Marcus Banks for answers.
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