Kevin Garnett tonight  returns to Target Center for the third time — the second time to actually play — since the July 2007 trade with the Celtics.

Al Jefferson and Ryan Gomes remain Timberwolves from that deal.

Theo Ratliff, Gerald Green and Sebastian Telfair are long gone, waived or traded away in moves that have brought back salary-cap space, Houston’s second-round pick next summer and the Wolves’ own future first round pick that they had given the Celtics that Ricky Davis-Wally Szcezerbiak deal.

More than two years later, how do you think that deal looks? (Of course it looks good for the Celtics, who just might be favorites this season to win their second title in three years).

On another topic, Kevin Love says he will stitches removed from his fractured hand tomorrow and will have his hand x-rayed in a little more than two weeks from now. The results will be sent to the New York City doctor who performed the surgery and Love said he’s hopeful the hand will have healed sufficiently by then for him to resume practice.

That would be about Nov. 20 and certainly on the lower end of the six-to-eight week time frame estimated when he broke the hand Oct. 16 at Chicago. It’d take him some practice time to get into playing shape even if the OK comes on the 20th.

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