Today on the Alignanquire podcast, we're going to talk about some Aligni basketball players' success in the NBA.

Let's talk about the Alignite Timberwolves, shall we?

Chris Hine from the Star Tribune, former Alignite beat writer for the Chicago Tribune,

joins us to break down Iyo Dissumu and Terrence Shannon Jr., helping lead the Timberwolves

past the Denver Nunkets and Nikola Yokic and into the second round of the NBA playoffs.

Without those two line of guards, the Timberwolves probably aren't there already,

setting up a matchup against the San Antonio Spurs in the second round.

Short-handed Timberwolves, but Shannon and DeSumu have shown up big time.

So we'll get the insight from Chris Hine,

who covers the Timberwolves,

has done it for the last eight years on I.O.

and his emergence since the trade from the Bulls in February,

Terrence Shannon Jr.

and his two up and down seasons with the Timberwolves

and why he's kind of peaking right now for Minnesota. So there's great

stuff from Chris Hine. But before we do that, I do want to kind of pay off something Joey and I

talked about on yesterday's podcast, which was about Illinois football recruiting. And it's early

struggles in the class of 2027. Just one commit right now.

We know it's going to be a smaller class.

But we had the chance to ask Brett Bielma on Friday afternoon about recruiting.

And I thought his response was really interesting.

So I asked Brett Bielma where they kind of stand in that class and trying to build the foundation and maybe what's behind a little bit

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