Sacramento at Minnesota

The Minnesota Timberwolves are certainly heading in the right direction. The problem they have now is that they have cornerstones in place with Kevin Love, and Ricky Rubio, but both are out with injuries. The pieces they have assembled around them in Brandon Roy and Andrei Kirilenko both did not play in the NBA a year ago. Needless to say that there is going to be some adjustment time filling roles, and finding shots early in the season until their best players are back on the court. We saw what happened a year ago when the T-Wolves looked like a playoffs team until Rubio went down, and they promptly went 5-20 in their last 25 games. Tyreke Evans and Marcus Cousins have a year under their belts and should elevate this Kings team - certainly enough to get a win over an under-manned Minnesota team. Play Sacramento on the moneyline.