Brandon Roy!

Well it pretty much official!

Roy returns to the team that drafted him in 2006!, really wanted him to go Minnesota also.. love the group they have put together.

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MY ALL TIME FAV PLAYER IS BACK IN THE NBA! WOOO! fingers crossed he can be a factor for the T-Wolves for years to come.:cool:
 
Just been thinking about what jersey number Roy is gonna rock? Derrick Williams has #7 and Malcom Lee has #3 the number Roy wore in college, hope one of them give up their number for him, other wise id like to see him take #1 :cool:
 
Roy Hopes to Start for Timberwolves

July 10, 2012

The Timberwolves, meanwhile, have had a hole to fill at the 2-guard position for some time. Wesley Johnson, Martell Webster and Wayne Ellington haven’t proven to be the answer, and point guard Luke Ridnour was even shifted out of position to fill the void last season.
(Brandon) Roy said that he met with Timberwolves executives and coach Rick Adelman for hours in advance of his decision to sign with Minnesota. While his role wasn’t in great detail, Roy said he was approaching the season like he would any other during his career and he didn’t sound like he has any intention of being a bit player.
“I didn’t make any demands or ask a question about starting,” he said of his meeting with Adelman. “I just always feel it’s going to be hard to keep me out of the starting lineup. That’s just my mentality as a player and how I feel right now.”
“And not just be in the starting lineup,” he added, chuckling. “Maybe get a few plays called for me. I just plan to work hard and put coach in a position where he has to play me.”
via Ben Golliver of CBS Sports
 
On Saturday, Brandon Roy did something that used to be routine: He played a basketball game. Roy’s performance at the Jamal Crawford Pro-Am League in Seattle was his first public appearance on the court since his last game for the Blazers some 15 months ago. In the interim, Roy has retired due to deteriorating condition of his knees, undergone treatment, started a comeback and agreed to sign with the Minnesota Timberwolves to start the next chapter of his career.
When close friend Will Conroy first hinted and later confirmed on Twitter last week that Roy would play, it created a buzz in the Seattle basketball community, but also some skepticism. Roy pulled out of a pair of charity games at the last minute during the summer of 2011, and he’s yet to officially put pen to paper on his new contract with the Timberwolves. Yet Roy arrived about 20 minutes before gametime and changed into his red jersey. The teams in Crawford’s team are all named after NBA teams, so for one day, Roy–along with Conroy and another former Husky, Mike Jensen–was a member of the Bulls. They squared off against a Kings team featuring Isaiah Thomas and former Blazer Martell Webster.
After scoring the first bucket of the game on a pull-up jumper going to his left, Roy was quiet offensively the rest of the first quarter. This being a pro-am setting that features a gap in talent between NBA stars and local preps that played at the community college level, it was difficult to tell how much Roy was trying to push things. He opened the game using his occasional drives to set up teammates rather than score at the rim.
via Kevin Pelton of Basketball Prospectus and Ben Golliver of Blazer’s Edge
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Okay first of all, great to see my man hooping again.. also good to see him pain free and without any knee braces. he did look a bit rusty.. i guess its only a very casual pro am game.. got some nice lift on a turnaround jumper though, im sure the more he shakes that rust off the more Brandon of old we are gonna see.
 
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