Kevin Garnett's Minnesota reunion underscores Wolves' improbable rise to contender

MINNEAPOLIS — The alpha wolf, the one who had been estranged from the pack for so long, stood at the tunnel in the house that he built and prepared to enter the arena for the first time in eight long years.Target Center staffers had cordoned off an area in the back hallways to give Kevin Garnett some privacy before he made his long-anticipated return to the building he put on the map back in the day. But a few fans and team employees still gathered around the double doors leading into the bowl, and their voices dropped into hushed tones, almost as if they couldn’t believe that the ice was finally thawing between the icon and the franchise.Advertisement