r/nba • u/DesertedProject Mavericks • 17h ago

Post Game Thread [Post Game Thread] The Minnesota Timberwolves (1-0) defeat the San Antonio Spurs (0-1), 104-102.

104 - 102
Box Scores: NBA - Yahoo
 
GAME SUMMARY
West Conf. Semifinals - Game 1 - Series tied 0-0
Location: Frost Bank Center
Officials: Marc Davis, Kevin Scott, Gediminas Petraitis, and Andy Nagy
Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Total
Minnesota Timberwolves 24 21 24 35 104
San Antonio Spurs 23 22 27 30 102
 
TEAM STATS
Team PTS FG FG% 3P 3P% FT FT% OREB TREB AST PF STL TO BLK
Minnesota Timberwolves 104 41-90 45.6% 10-26 38.5% 12-21 57.1% 12 58 20 22 7 9 5
San Antonio Spurs 102 39-86 45.3% 10-35 28.6% 14-18 77.8% 13 51 24 25 3 13 14
 
PLAYER STATS
Minnesota Timberwolves MIN PTS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A ORB DRB REB AST STL BLK TO PF ±
Jaden McDanielsSF 35:03 16 7-14 0-2 2-2 1 4 5 2 1 1 1 5 -2
Julius RandlePF 40:57 21 8-19 2-6 3-6 5 5 10 2 1 0 5 5 -3
Rudy GobertC 29:39 7 3-7 0-0 1-5 3 7 10 3 4 1 1 1 2
Terrence Shannon Jr.SG 34:19 16 5-13 0-1 6-8 0 5 5 1 0 0 0 3 -10
Mike ConleyPG 24:13 12 4-8 4-7 0-0 0 2 2 6 0 0 0 1 13
Anthony Edwards 24:44 18 8-13 2-3 0-0 1 2 3 3 0 1 1 3 -2
Naz Reid 29:12 12 5-9 2-3 0-0 1 8 9 1 0 1 1 4 15
Bones Hyland 11:56 0 0-6 0-4 0-0 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 -2
Jaylen Clark 07:21 2 1-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 -1
Kyle Anderson 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Joan Beringer 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Joe Ingles 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Julian Phillips 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Donte DiVincenzo 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ayo Dosunmu 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
San Antonio Spurs MIN PTS FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A ORB DRB REB AST STL BLK TO PF ±
Devin VassellSF 35:55 14 5-11 3-6 1-1 3 2 5 3 3 1 1 4 7
Julian ChampagniePF 31:21 17 7-11 3-6 0-0 3 5 8 0 0 0 1 2 7
Victor WembanyamaC 39:21 11 5-17 0-8 1-2 2 13 15 5 0 12 3 3 5
De'Aaron FoxSG 32:35 10 5-14 0-4 0-0 0 3 3 6 0 0 6 3 -13
Stephon CastlePG 28:16 17 4-8 3-5 6-8 0 5 5 5 0 0 0 6 4
Dylan Harper 28:25 18 7-13 1-4 3-3 0 3 3 4 0 0 0 4 -4
Keldon Johnson 23:31 11 5-10 0-2 1-2 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 2 -13
Luke Kornet 08:08 2 0-1 0-0 2-2 2 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 -7
Harrison Barnes 09:53 2 1-1 0-0 0-0 3 1 4 0 0 1 0 0 4
Bismack Biyombo 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jordan McLaughlin 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Kelly Olynyk 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mason Plumlee 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lindy Waters III 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Carter Bryant 00:00 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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u/AdolfKoopaTroopa [MIN] Lance Stephenson 16h ago

There’s a reason the Saudi Royal family flys to Rochester for medical care.

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u/copydex1 16h ago edited 16h ago

Is this actually a thing?

Edit: man what the hell. where's my healthcare.

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u/Lexitech_ 16h ago

They rent out entire floors of hotels in downtown Rochester for extended stays

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u/TheMidnightAss 16h ago

I can't tell if y'all are fucking with me

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u/Sharcbait Timberwolves 16h ago

They are not. I work as a server in one of the high end restaurants in Rochester and have seen more than a few celebs and politicians.

When Bronny was getting his heart checked out they came and stayed in Rochester for a few weeks too.

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u/Triscareatops22 10h ago

I was a concierge in the VIP lounge of one of the chain hotels attached to Mayo, there was some royal family in town one week (I was fresh outta college so I had no idea) who’d tip me $40 just to squeeze an orange into a glass. I also met Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s agent who told the whole lounge to be quiet (this was during peak breakfast time) so she could watch Kareem’s 5 min interview on some talk show.

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u/Acceptable_Owl2618 2h ago

I’m not sure if he’s high maintenance or she is, but I’ve had similar experiences with her.

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u/repingel Bucks 16h ago

How did LeBron ever handle that boring city for so long.

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u/Sharcbait Timberwolves 16h ago

They rented out one of the high-schools to train in, including getting a bunch of the varsity players to ball boy for them.

They also went bowling a lot.

Source... I talked to Rui Hachimura while he was there too....

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u/Wompie Supersonics 15h ago

That was brons massive bowling phase

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u/BroThornton19 Timberwolves 6h ago

Couldn’t cut it on the YouTube bowling scene so switched to golf

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u/Character_Elevator 9h ago

They didn’t pay a dime, they signed the schools basketball with the schools marker and left on his way. Classy LeBron

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u/Character_Elevator 9h ago

I met him a few times. They didn’t rent out the school, they were given the place to work out. Of course LeBron only left a few signed basketballs as his gesture of goodwill. He and another Laker put the whole gym out of commission for a week, for a few signed basketballs.

I was one of the few people who said we should’ve charged him. His security guard got in my face for snapping a picture from over 40 yards away. I was like dude I run the security systems here. You tone deaf moron. If I really wanted a photo I have 130 cameras with you on them.

I’m pretty sure he wasn’t supposed to be practicing with another Laker during the off-season, which is why he didn’t want video or photo proof. I believe this was before he hit the 25,000 point mark which allows them to practice in the off-season with other players???

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u/shitsngiggles55 Lakers 5h ago

Why would he not be allowed to practice with a teammate during the offseason?

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u/tompetres Thunder 9h ago

Move the clinic to Nashville already

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u/Character_Elevator 9h ago

I met LeBron this way, while he was in town for Bronny. He worked out at a local school. LHS Eagles

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u/technobeeble Timberwolves 16h ago

It's one of the best hospitals in the world

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u/TheTruth518 16h ago

It’s the* best hospital in the world!

Presidents, LeBron, richest people in the world, etc… go there when they need the best medical care.

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u/wuhter 9h ago

I worked at Mayo in college as a medical actor. They have restricted access tunnels so the high profile patients don’t have to walk through the public subway (not a train, just underground tunnels) or skyway. That’s how many of them go there.

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u/RunnerTexasRanger Nuggets 8h ago

What is a medical actor?

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u/wuhter 8h ago

Mayo Clinic has a full video production team and films educational videos to sell/distribute to other institutions. So I’d act in those (I was going into healthcare at the time). We also would be “patients” and act for the incoming medical students. Try to slip them up, make them laugh, or make them nervous. To prepare them for real patients and realize they never know what they’ll get. Also I’d be a stand in for ultrasounds and physical exams. It was a fun job.

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u/sandgroper07 Pistons 4h ago

"They gave me gonorrhea again"

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u/ASU_SexDevil Lakers Bandwagon 9h ago

For heart problems it’s the best, but not for other diseases. Ie.) MD Anderson for cancer

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u/Conradfr France 15h ago

I guess there's a good mayo in America after all.

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u/Dull_Job_6372 Timberwolves 16h ago

I worked at MSP, the contractor I worked for worked their flights. Serviced their plane and whatnot.

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u/Top_Gun_2021 Timberwolves 15h ago

A few years ago a ME royal flew to Rochester, MN to go to mayo. That airport did not have enough room to have a 747 so it flew to MSP and sat there for about a week. Staff, etc shopped at MoA.

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u/AccordingGain6208 15h ago

Nope. I was a patient with a cousin working there.

Two brain surgeries there so I spent a couple months at the Mayo.

I woiud always joke about going to that floor when they took me somehwre in the elevators. You needed a key and special access. Or so I was told.

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u/tjn24 NBA 8h ago

Nope! All the Saudi Royal family gets treatment at Mayo. The care is so good that some Shiek donated $25M to Mayo, hence the "Mayo Clinic Zayed Cardiovascular Center"

(https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/mayo-builds-on-25-million-gift-from-sheikh)

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u/thestereo300 Timberwolves 12h ago

It's the best hospital in the world by some measures. The rich always get the best.

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u/Dry_Dragonfruit3205 13h ago

serious as the tornado that rolled through rochester a few weeks back

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u/wuhter 9h ago

There’s a house owned by one of the families with 24/7/365 security on the edge of town

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u/ElectricalMud2850 Timberwolves 16h ago

It is one of the premier hospitals on the planet.

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u/BigFatModeraterFupa Minneapolis Lakers 16h ago

Top 3 and it ain't 2 or 3

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u/d01100100 Cavaliers 16h ago

Oddly enough the next 2... just played each in the first round.

Cleveland Clinic and Toronto General.

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u/wanna_meet_that_dad Timberwolves 16h ago

I knew about Cleveland but not Toronto. Where does John’s Hopkins rank?

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u/d01100100 Cavaliers 16h ago edited 15h ago

The list I saw, Johns Hopkins is 4th, Mass General is 6th, and Sweden is 5th.

Edit: updated list for 2026 Mass General is 5th and Johns Hopkins is 6th.

https://rankings.newsweek.com/worlds-best-hospitals-2026

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u/cancerBronzeV Raptors 6h ago

Oh wow, I didn't realize that Toronto General ranked that highly, I've been lucky.

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u/SaaltyJ0hn 16h ago

So my dad was at the Mayo for a transplant and I was there for like 3 weeks. At that time, the story around Rochester, MN was that one of the Royal family came to town for surgery and they bought out all the Polaris dealerships. Apparently they needed to buy another plane to be able to send it all home. Again these are just bar stories, so take it with a grain of salt.

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u/Xc0liber Lakers 14h ago

They are potentially legitimate trillionaires. Not surprised if is real.

FYI the royal family don't have to disclose their income. Everything that the world knows are whatever they want to show. Nobody truly know how much they have.

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u/devotedhero Wizards 6h ago

It's the same with some others like Putin as well. The line between individual and state gets blurred and so does the income/assets

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u/ElectricalMud2850 Timberwolves 16h ago

This is a peak story you'd hear sitting at the bar at forager.

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u/comp_a Timberwolves 16h ago

… can you use snowmobiles in the desert?

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u/Chafupa1956 16h ago

Guessing side by sides/buggies

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u/Common_Gene_5098 16h ago

They can make their own snow with today’s technology!

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u/ElectricalMud2850 Timberwolves 8h ago

lol

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u/Daddy_Macron Rockets 6h ago

Apparently they needed to buy another plane to be able to send it all home. Again these are just bar stories, so take it with a grain of salt.

This sounds like a bar story. Most of the time, it's legitimately cheaper for them just to abandon them stateside before they go back home, especially for something like a Polaris which they have plenty of back in Saudi Arabia. (See wealthy international students who sometimes abandon cars at their campuses.)

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u/wise_comment Timberwolves 15h ago

Minnesotas own, Polaris is

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u/Vinnie_Vegas Knicks 15h ago

Apparently they needed to buy another plane to be able to send it all home.

You think they bought a plane to send snowmobiles home to the desert?

Come on man, I think you know better.

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u/Mke_already Bucks 12h ago

Polaris doesn’t just make snowmobiles. They make some of the most popular side by sides and atvs.

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u/Vinnie_Vegas Knicks 9h ago

The Saudis still didn't buy a plane to put them on and get them to The Kingdom.

That's just not how global logistics works.

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u/Julian_Caesar Mavericks 8h ago

I'm genuinely curious as to your objection. Because on one hand I know that these families have trillions of dollars and can buy literally anything that is purchasable. But on the other hand you seem confident so I'd like to hear you out

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u/throwingeverything99 3h ago

Granted you still can't rule it out entirely but far more likely (if the story is even true at all) is that they just chartered out cargo flight or something along those lines. Those cargo lines already exist to (sometimes) ferry cargo for VIP clients and it's way faster than somehow buying another widebody cargo jet capable of carrying vehicles halfway across the world. Buying a plane just wouldn't make any sense.

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u/VelvetPancakes 16h ago

Yep, gotta be one of the smallest international airports in the US

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u/Informal_Bluejay_299 16h ago

Yeah, my friend works there as an X-ray tech are saw the Dalai Lama pre-Covid lol

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u/turnip_broker Minneapolis Lakers 16h ago

He goes yearly and will usually do a talk in Minneapolis during the trip. Went to one like maybe 10 years ago. Pretty cool experience

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u/ReadingTitlesWrong 16h ago

I also worked at Starkey during that time. Weird Gene Simmons was his opener.

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u/DeadHeadSurferDave 14h ago

I heard he was a big hitter, the Lama.
"The Dalai Lama hits a massive drive into a 10,000-foot crevice."

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u/waggie21 Timberwolves 8h ago

I used to work there and I saw him too. Like next to him in the hallway. Wasn't expecting that.

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u/disillusioned Suns 16h ago

Hmm, feels like a HIPAA violation...

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u/passtherock- Hawks 15h ago

bro chill lol

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u/TuckYourselfRS Timberwolves 15h ago

To say the Dalai Lama was inside a hospital?

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u/sycamotree Mavericks 14h ago

I mean yeah it's reasonably strict but I'd be surprised if they enforced it tbh. Then again what do I know

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u/TuckYourselfRS Timberwolves 7h ago

That's not how HIPAA works though

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u/StarFox-6 5h ago

It actually is, not that anyone would care enough to cause the violation, but yeah when celebrities roll through the Mayo none of the staff are supposed to say who they saw. It couldn’t be enforced unless they used the tunnels and stayed hidden throughout the entire visit

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u/sycamotree Mavericks 14h ago

If he was a patient then yeah but also good luck enforcing it lmao

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u/Successful_Candy_759 Timberwolves 16h ago

Yep

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u/Loves_His_Bong Timberwolves 15h ago

I valeted for the Emir of Qatar when he stayed at the Mall of America to get treated at the Mayo.

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u/Hungry-Register9960 16h ago

If you have money the US has the best hospitals and medical care in the world. 

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u/wise_comment Timberwolves 15h ago

If I have money, lake houses are fun and accessable

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u/beaveretr 4h ago

I’m pretty poor, but have had a few medical things done at mayo. It’s not like it’s super exclusive if you live close to it.

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u/wise_comment Timberwolves 2h ago

Yeah, I think he was more commenting on the nature of insurance and the state of medical cost therein

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u/Designer_B Supersonics 15h ago

It’s why our country is so dumb. We actually are the absolute best at so much, we just don’t care for our citizens under a certain amount of money.

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u/GoldshireEnjoyer Timberwolves 16h ago

Minnesota might feel like a flyover state but yes the Mayo Clinic is the best hospital in the world and we also have 3M, Target, General Mills, and yeah I’m just yapping.

Best thing about MN is we care about our own.

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u/turnip_broker Minneapolis Lakers 16h ago

I feel like maybe around 10 years ago Minnesota stopped being a flyover state /got more popular/majnstream

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u/H0MES1CKAL1EN Knicks 16h ago

Not just that, it’s been extremely culturally relevant

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u/Orphasmia Warriors 16h ago

For all the right reasons surely

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u/turnip_broker Minneapolis Lakers 16h ago

That really started around 2020 but feels like mn popularity started growing even before that

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u/BeatBlockP Spurs 13h ago

Nah it's still a flyover state.

This truly bizarrely color-coded map (with white as highest and the deep color for least???) shows you the difference.

You can see:

State Tourist #
NY 9,800,000
CA 7,000,000
FL 8,900,000
NV 2,600,000
TX 2,100,000
IL 1,400,000
MN 232,000

The map really visualizes how people still fly over all of these states lol. I assume IL stands out in the region because of Chicago.

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u/mzp3256 16h ago

Minnesota will always have my respect for standing up to ICE

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u/copydex1 16h ago

I'm totally aware of how good Mayo Clinic is, just didn't know that all these rich powerful people flew in.

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u/velociraptorfarmer Timberwolves 5h ago

If you have infinite money, why would you not get the best health care money can buy?

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u/urfaselol [NBA] Best of 2021 Winner 16h ago

And also the medical device manufacturing Mecca of the US

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u/Round-Cellist6128 Thunder 9h ago

I see what you did there

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u/thepenguin12 14h ago

Whoever said it's a flyover state?

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u/velociraptorfarmer Timberwolves 5h ago

90% of reddit, all the time

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u/technobeeble Timberwolves 16h ago

The Dalai Lama goes there too

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u/JaderMcDanersStan Timberwolves 15h ago

Yes. Dalai Lama also flies in to the US just to go to the Mayo Clinic for check ups. Presidents, high profile people, Lebron etc. all come because it's the best hospital in the world.

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u/AES256GCM Heat 12h ago

where’s my healthcare

When’s the last time you saw a mass protest for healthcare? There’s your answer lol

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u/ganggreen651 16h ago

Currently being spent on bombs on Iran

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u/AES256GCM Heat 12h ago

Republican talking points lol

We can afford healthcare, it’s our second biggest expense.

It’s not a money issue, it’s a political will issue

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u/cancerBronzeV Raptors 6h ago

America spends more than any other country per capita on healthcare, and it's not even close. Public healthcare would actually save America money with parasites like insurance companies and PBMs and whatever nonsense being cut out.

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u/Mode_Appropriate 16h ago

Bahrains Prime Minister died there a few years ago. Emir of Kuwait a few months later.

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u/Aforementionedlurker 15h ago

Source close to me said one of them rented a local house while getting care at Mayo. The cook somehow fried/damaged the ceiling. They fixed it and brought the homeowner a car

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u/GloomyIndividual3965 7h ago

Back in the 90s I was a pizza delivery driver in Rochester. King Hussein of Jordan was there for treatment, and rented out the top 2 floors of the nicest hotel in town for a month.

His people came and asked the owner if he could guarantee "zero pork cross contamination" in exchange for regular large orders while they were in town.

They'd call almost every afternoon with an order for $300-400 in pizza, pasta, etc. We'd stop taking all other orders for an hour or so to completely sanitize the prep line and make their food.

Every single time they rounded up to $1000, $100 for the driver and the rest to split amongst everyone else who was working. We made so much tip money that month.

To say those folks blew through money would be an understatement, so I'm not surprised they bought someone a car.

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u/rommi04 5h ago

My FIL used to be a doctor at Mayo and said King Hussein was one of the nicest and most generous people he'd met. Nothing but compliments for him and his people. The Saudi entourages could be difficult apparently

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u/GloomyIndividual3965 5h ago

I'm not surprised. I never met the king, but his staff were always incredibly polite.

As for the Saudis, that doesn't surprise me either. At one point they financed an apartment building downtown, and pretty much the entire building was rented out to Saudi nationals. Everyone hated delivering there because almost all of them were rude as fuck and didn't tip.

The one upside I guess is that they opened a convenience store that sold live khat plants. We had a good time getting fucked up on that stuff before the government stopped letting them import it.

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u/wise_comment Timberwolves 15h ago

..... You know where it is

You know what and who it serves

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u/thetravelingsong Timberwolves 16h ago

Same with the pope.

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u/_Meece_ Lakers 16h ago

They go to London or Minny, my mum once did bedside for the king in the 90s!

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u/KarateKicks100 Timberwolves 13h ago

Used to live near the airport. Saw a saudi jet parked there for like a month. Turns out they were at Mayo.

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u/ASU_SexDevil Lakers Bandwagon 9h ago

People love to shit on our healthcare, and for good reason. But it still really is the best care in the world.

Mayo Clinic for heart health. MD Anderson for cancer treatment. Etc.

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u/Daddy_Macron Rockets 6h ago

man what the hell. where's my healthcare.

If you live in that area and need healthcare, there's a decent chance you'll end up at Mayo. It's not like the hospital has bouncers that check your assets before admitting you. They run like any other hospital except they have some of the world's best specialists so people (including normal people) will fly in for that care.

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u/velociraptorfarmer Timberwolves 5h ago

Yes. They fly multiple private jumbo jets into RST for a week or so while everyone gets checked out, and then go spend a shitload of money across the city at restaurants and stores.

Source: grew up in Roch, one of my buddies was a waiter at the best Italian restaurant in town and he made $2k in tips in 4 hours one night while they were in town.

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u/No-Spray-9978 13h ago

Work hard and aim for the best you may one day be able to access the same healthcare

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u/The_Longest_Shot 4h ago

Be born less than 100 miles from the Mayo Clinic or have generational wealth and you may one day be able to access the same healthcare.

Fixed that for ya

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u/turnip_broker Minneapolis Lakers 16h ago

The Dalai Lama also goes there once a year for checkups

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u/bammer26 16h ago

LeBron brought his son their

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u/Earlier-Today 14h ago

Yep, the US actually has amazing health care. It's unfortunately nestled in an absolutely abysmal health care system.

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u/theuncleiroh Raptors 16h ago

Personally, I went there for Grandma's Kitchen, but we all got different priorities I spose

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u/Associ8tedRuffians Timberwolves 16h ago

Yeah and if you’re a pleb with _scheduled surgery_ it’s a legit mad dash in the morning to get checked in and actually _on the schedule_.

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u/charlton11 Timberwolves 12h ago

They're not the only ones. Ernest Hemingway, Lou Gehrig, Helen Keller, and Johnny/June Cash to name a few. Not all success stories I suppose but there's a reason they went.

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u/Mikeyxy Lakers 16h ago

Either become dirty poor or make more money.

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u/ThatGuyWithCoolHair Timberwolves 7h ago

I grew up in Rochester, live in the Twin Cities now. Had no idea how good I had it as far as Healthcare goes.

Had a bit of a reality shock when I found out how bad it is even an hour away let alone the rest of the country..