Tues, Jan 28th, 2020

 1. No game today — Jan. 28, 2020 

This cartoon, by the late Bill Gallo of the New York Daily News, which captures the tragedy of Thurman Munson’s death at 32, is what Mike Breen was talking about on Sunday during the Knicks-Nets game. We urge you to listen to his monologue here.The Lakers and Clippers just don’t feel like playing ball today, either. They announced last night the game, scheduled for Tuesday, would be postponed. That’s OK, fellas.The next Lakers game is Friday at Staples Center. More great writing on Kobe:

• Bleacher Report:The making of an NBA icon

• Yahoo! Sports:The tragedy of losing Kobe because he was trying to be the best dad

• Yahoo! Sports: Admiring Kobe Bryant’s maturation from afar

• The New York Times:Kobe Bryant always believed in his own greatness

More Kobe moments:

• When Matt Barnes tried to make him flinch

• When Chris Rock tried to make him laugh

• When Kobe destroyed his teammates and made Jimmy Kimmel laugh without saying anything

• When Kobe, after a bad loss, forced all of his teammates to throw away their Nike Kobes

• When Kobe rapped on a Destiny’s Child song

• When Kobe’s high school point guard crashed a press conference and got a great answer out of him

• When a young Kobe and Jimmy Fallon went on a beer run

2. A ridiculous comeback last night

This is perhaps the one millionth-most important thing happening in the NBA right now, but the Timberwolves are dissolving into a puddle before our eyes.They lost their 10th game in a row last night, at home, against the Kings, which is remarkable only because they were leading by 22 points with six minutes left and by 17 points with 2:49 left.According to ESPN, such a collapse hadn’t previously happened … maybe ever:

• “Since 1996-97, the first year of play-by-play data, NBA teams entered yesterday 0-8,378 when trailing by 17+ in the final 3 minutes of the 4th quarter or overtime”

You just have to watch the highlights, but, basically, the Wolves went to their garbage time rotation, Buddy Hield hit every shot imaginable, and De’Aaron Fox pulled the craftiest play of the year, GIF’d above, to tie and send the game to overtime, where the Kings eventually won, 133-129.One game probably can’t quite trigger a relocation to Seattle, but give the Wolves a tip o’ the hat for trying.