"A South Dakota snowstorm denied the Wolves' Jonny Flynn the opportunity to play rehab D League games last weekend, but on Sunday he still -- for the first time since July hip surgery -- declared himself ready for his NBA season debut, Tuesday night at Golden State.

Now he just needs to get coach Kurt Rambis and the team's medical staff to agree.

"I think I'm ready to get back in it and start playing this week on this road trip; I think [Tuesday] is a very high possibility," Flynn said. "I feel good enough to do it. Now it's just whether Kurt and them feel the same way. By my standards, I think I'm definitely playing."

Flynn, a point guard, returned to Sioux Falls after playing a game there 10 days ago because he and team management wanted him to test his hip and body by playing back-to-back games to simulate the grind of an NBA schedule.

He played 30-plus minutes Friday, scored eight points and had 12 assists and seven turnovers.

"I played all right, I give myself an 'average,' " he said. "A few careless turnovers I had, some defensive rotations I missed. Other than that, my legs were feeling good. A lot of my explosiveness is coming back slowly but surely, and that's a good sign."

Most important, he awoke Saturday morning feeling no pain.

"I was feeling good when I woke up," Flynn said. "That's why I really wanted to go back out there [Saturday night] and see how I felt. There wasn't even any soreness in my legs or anything. I definitely wanted to go out there and see how it'd feel coming off 30 minutes a night and then playing a back-to-back.

"The snow threw a monkey wrench into everything we wanted to do, but at least we got that one more game under my belt."

Flynn grew up in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and attended Syracuse, so he knows all about "lake-effect" snowstorms. But a good old-fashioned prairie blizzard was something he'd never seen. Saturday night's Sioux Falls-Tulsa game was postponed because travel was too dangerous."