The Wolves, as of this morning's shootaround in Salt Lake City, were awaiting results of an MRI on Ryan Gomes' knee. Whatever it shows, he's out for tonight's game against the Jazz.
Damien Wilkins is back in the starting lineup at small forward.
"I don't think it's that serious," Gomes said this morning. "I've been walking fine on it. I have a little pain, but they said if it was really bad, I wouldn't be able to walk on it right now. I want to get back to Minnesota and see what the doctor thinks about it."
Wilkins started six straight games -- and the Wolves won two of them -- until Kevin Love moved back into the starting lineup and Gomes moved from power forward to small forward Friday in Los Angeles.
A couple other things left in my notebook and on my mind:
* Kurt Rambis summoned everybody to the Jazz's practice facility Sunday for what he said was going to be an extensive film breakdown of Saturday's lethargic 120-100 loss at Sacramento. So what was all the pizza, popcorn and Junior Mints doing there when they arrived?
It was Movie Day. Instead of game film, Rambis showed in the Jazz's film theatre the motion picture "Hurt Locker." The film about an elite Army bomb unit in Iraq in the last couple days has been named the year's top movie by critics in both L.A. and New York, but Al Jefferson gave it a big thumbs' down because it didn't have enough action.
* Did you see Kevin Love take an unsolicited shot at former Wolves coach Randy Wittman? I asked him after the Sacramento game about his improved perimeter game and he brought up Wittman without naming names. Here's the story I wrote for the Web site and today's paper.
http://www.startribune.com/sports/wolves/79181292.html
Your thoughts?
* Tuesday is the first day the Wolves can trade Ramon Sessions and Ryan Hollins. NBA teams are prohibited from dealing free agents signed last summer either until Dec. 15 or 90 days are they signed, whichever is later. Sasha Pavlovic becomes eligible to be dealt in a few days, Jason Hart near the end of the month.
ESPN's Marc Stein listed Sessions No. 5 on his Top 5 list of newly trade-eligible players most likely to be dealt and suggested some league executives think David Kahn signed Sessions in September only to "flip" him this season.
I asked Kahn today if tomorrow is a significant day because Sessions becomes eligible to be traded.
"No, not for us it isn't," he said, "Tomorrow is Tuesday. We're going home tomorrow. That's the only significance."
