Timberwolves lore is filled with disappointment and dysfunction, misfortune and mess.



Of all the ways to quantify just how tragic this franchise’s history has been, the most telling is to crane your neck to the rafters at Target Center.



That’s where organizations celebrate. That’s where they honor. In Minnesota, that is where they mourn, both those who are up there and, in a way, the one who isn’t.



Two banners hang high above the tunnel where the Timberwolves enter the arena to play every night. One is for Malik Sealy, a forward who was killed in a car accident in 2000. One is for Flip Saunders, the coach and executive who died from complications from Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2015.



There is one other banner that needs to be up there with them. It would be fitting if Kevin Garnett’s No. 21 was placed right between his close friend Sealy and his longtime coach Saunders. But for reasons that are...