Their star player wanted out, and his teammates found out on social media. Their head coach was fired less than halfway through the year. Chemistry issues threatened to send their season swirling down the drain before it even got started.



Sound familiar?



In an organization dogged by drama and infighting for much of last season, it was almost fitting that the maiden voyage for the Timberwolves’ NBA 2K League franchise started off just as rocky. T-Wolves Gaming went through so much of what the Timberwolves experienced and stumbled to a 3-6 record while doing so.



But the gamers put a twist on their story.



In their first season of competition, the second for the NBA-sponsored 2K League as a whole, T-Wolves Gaming won seven in a row to finish the regular season, swept through the first two rounds of the playoffs and then beat 76ers GC in the championship, pocketing a cool $360,000 in the process.



They spent five months this spring and...