Minnesota Timberwolves hilarious fail has fans losing their minds

An NBA team became a laughing stock among the basketball community after leaving fans dumbfounded by one moment.

What the hell are you doing, Wolves?

Head down to your local basketball league and more often than not you’ll see games being played with less players on one team.

Seeing a four on five game is not an uncommon site in local leagues, where you don’t expect to see it happening is in the NBA.

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On Thursday that’s exactly what unfolded for one team in hilarious scenes that left them searching for answers in the middle of a possession.

Midway through the second quarter of the Minnesota Timberwolves vs Phoenix Suns game, fans couldn’t believe what the Wolves had achieved.

After Wolves guard Jaylen Nowell was fouled and sent to the free throw line, the Wolves made a substitution.

Taurean Prince walked off the court with D’Angelo Russell called off the bench and back onto the hardwood.

The only issue … Russell stood at the scorers table and never walked onto the court.

Nowell drained the free throw and the Suns inbounded and made their way up the floor, it was then the Wolves hilarious mistake became evident as the four-man line-up failed to defend the Suns.

Suns guard Damion Lee missed a three-point attempt, but the Suns grabbed the offensive rebound before Torrey Craig sunk a second three-point shot.

As Craig retreated behind the line and put up his shot, at the top of the screen you can see Russell running onto the court. Obviously after being yelled at by his coach.

The hilarious clip quickly went viral on social media with basketball fans losing it over the Western Conference team’s mistake.

The Timberwolves had to play defense down a man after D'Angelo Russell forgot he was supposed to be on the court 😅

🎥 @DWolfsonKSTPpic.twitter.com/QtzvB7lz8g

— The Athletic (@TheAthletic) November 10, 2022

The Wolves made a splash in the off-season by signing defensive juggernaut big man Rudy Gobert from the Utah Jazz.

Many pundits predicted the Wolves to climb higher up the standings following a seventh placed finish in the conference last season.

Unfortunately in the early part of the 2022/23 season the Wolves have struggled to gel and currently sit 10th in the West.

The Wolves starting five line-up has been horrific through the opening stage of the season, with the group being comfortably the worst line-up in the league.

After the opening eight games the group had the third most minutes in the league and had net-rating of minus 5.3,

The line-up is scoring an average of 97.4 points per 100 possessions, which would be almost three points worse than the Los Angeles Lakers’ full team rating for worst in the league.

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Assuming the wolves don’t come back in this one, 5-7 isn’t, like, a DISASTROUS start. But the vibes are so so so so So SO much worse than that record.

— Anchorage Man (@SethPartnow) November 10, 2022

With 70 games remaining on their schedule, the Wolves have plenty of time to figure it out, but the early signs don’t paint a pretty picture.