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Preliminary round of Eurobasket concludes today with all teams in action. The elimination rounds begin on Wednesday, following a day off on Tuesday.
7:30 CDT
Great Britain v. Ukraine
Latvia v. Macedonia
Georgia v. Spain
Greece v. Finland
10:45 CDT
Germany v. Israel
Lithuania v. Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia v. Czech Republic
Italy v. Sweden
2:00 CDT
Belgium v. France
Montenegro v. Serbia
Slovenia v. Poland
Turkey v. Russia
In other news:
- The Minnesota Lynx beat Seattle on Saturday to lower their magic number for best record in the West to one game. They face Seattle on the road again tomorrow.
- In other Lynx news, the team signed Linday Whalen to a three year contract extension. Whalen is 31 and arguably having her best season.
- The Wolves made the hiring of Milt Newton official; more to come on this from me this week.
- Kevin Love turned 25 on Saturday. Happy birthday. I feel old.
- Commenter jacob9 linked to this yesterday:
- Along with another link to this Timberwolves Playbook. Feel free to dive in.
Today's musical birthday is Otis Redding, born in 1941. He died in 1967.
The most open of threads. Open up, you M-Fers.