Per Jerry Zgoda the Wolves talked to Sam Mitchell on Monday and today's interview of Larry Brown will be the end of the road. 

At this point it seems likes ages ago that the first round of interviews happened but here is the list of names supposedly in the mix:

Larry Brown

Sam Mitchell

Rick Adelman (though it seems like he's removed himself)

Mike Woodson

Terry Porter

Bernie Bickerstaff

Don Nelson

The Vegas odds on Kahn and Taylor finishing interviews and making a decisive decision on who the next coach will be are 300-1 right now. If you want to give them money take that action.

Lynx Addendum:

Box Score

The Lynx's 9 game win streak ended last night. It was a close game to the end but the Lynx couldn't get a bucket to fall in the last minute.  The bench (i.e. Wiggins) had a grand total of ZERO points for the game. Weak. Maya Moore and Augustus where fantasic. Given that it wasn't on TV that is about all I can extrapolate from the box score. 

I normally wouldn't dream of paying attention to the Lynx but a number of external factors have come into play.

1.  NBA - Dead right now

2. Twins - Not much better

3. Vikings - Destroying lives, business as usual

4. No Olympics/World Cup or other remotely interesting sport that happens on an interval. 

Then you add a very very odd phenomenon of the Lynx some how ending up with the all time best college basketball player on their team.  I'm as confused as you are.  It'd be great if some folks would join me in following this team (atleast passively, boxscore style) because here are the facts as I know them

1. This team traded a very good pick for Lindsey Whalen. 

2. Simone Augustus is good but always hurt, this year she finally isn't

3. Maya Moore is apparently very very good.

4. Candice Wiggins is our Jason Terry off the bench. It isn't clear to me if she has the 2011 WNBA championship trophy tatooed on her bicep but I wouldn't be surprised, plus she is the hottest player in the WNBA. Between Ricky and Candice the MN basketball teams need a section in the next SI Swimsuit issue. 

5. The team is 15-4 on a 8 game winning streak and they just managed to win a game that involved Maya Moore missing very shot she took 

If you know more please enlighten me. 

As part of our summer Roundtable series, College Wolf and myself took the liberty of answering four questions that.....we developed ourselves.  You can check out Part 1 about the NBA Lockout HERE.

1.Why do you think Kahn waited so long to fire Rambis? Was the backlash he received deserved?  

College Wolf: I think that might remain one of life's great unsolved mysteries; the true answer of which will probably never be known to the masses.  The backlash our organization received from the national mainstream media was most definitely deserved, as we were basically a laughingstock, being that everyone already knew Darrell Rambis was as good as gone.  Kahn more or less spelled it out during the press conference a day before the season ended, and no one could figure out why he waited as long as he did to actually fire him.  I get that there was no real rush since Rambis had a 4 year guaranteed contract, but it just made Kahn and Organization look inept and incompetent.  That's understandable and probably deserved, being as how the past half-decade has gone.  But what was Kahn really waiting for?  Perhaps he was hoping Rambis would just quit, or get an offer to go coach somewhere else?  That way at least Taylor wouldn't have had to pay the remaining 2 years of his contract.  That's really the only guess I can come up with that makes any sense to me.  He should have been fired months ago because it was the normal and logical thing to do. It is one thing if Kahn still had faith in Rambis and intended on keeping him. But he didn't.  The entire situation was really just incredibly bizarre. 

Mike: As CW said,  It is truly one of life's great mysteries along the lines of runners now running in that weird velociraptor-like arm pose you see around the lakes these days (look for it, it's weird and also fail to boot).  Whether or not all of this was "on Kahn" or not though remains to be seen. The fact remains that Kahn could hire Rick Adelman, solve the oil crisis, and end all major worldwide terrorist cells and the mainstream media (along with certain sister blog columnists) would still complain that he didn't end world hunger. It is insane. Kahn has actually and laughably been ridiculed for scoring interviews with Larry Brown, Don Nelson, and Rick Adelman. I mean, what the hell is the problem here?

To be fair, though, I have been very anti-Kahn the past 12 months, even going as far as to argue extensively earlier this year that he is worse than McHale was. But thus far this offseason he has done well, bringing in Rubio, drafting Williams, and doing the best he could with pick #20. With that said, he has a very real opportunity to curry favor with Wolves fans who sport a more radical opinion. As for what happened with Rambis... who cares? He is gone now. Whatever happened behind the scenes probably had reason or justification beyond the scope of our understanding. The backlash may be partially deserved but I have a hard time believing Rambis was completely left out to dry. This is a situation involving $4 million in sunk cost for a business seeing heavy reds for the past half decade. Life freaking goes on. Oh CRAP we missed out on Coaching Great Lawrence Frank! 12/21/12 come early!

Please click "Read More" for the remaining questions and discussion...

From Jerry Zgoda

The Timberwolves' coaching search just got very interesting.

According to league sources, former Houston coach Rick Adelman will be the fourth candidate to interview with the Wolves when he comes to town tomorrow to see David Kahn and owner Glen Taylor.

Adelman all along has looked like the dream hire who'd solve a lot of the Wolves' problems, if he's interested.

Well, it looks like he is now, at least enough to listen.

So with two very high-profile coaches coming into town this week, could expectations be any higher? Will hiring anyone other than Don or Rick be anything but an abject disaster? I mean, these two come in and we will probably end up with Sidney Lowe. I guess it is bound to happen.

Enjoy your weekend and stay cool. 

This just in:  Nelly wants to join the Wolves?

No, not that Nelly.  THIS Nelly:

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According to the illustrious Jerry Zgoda, Kurt Rambis's firing will be announced at 2 p.m. today. 

Ricky Rubio will be a free man!!!!!!!

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As the lockout continues, we decided to get the TWolves Blog staff together to answer five key questions on everyone's mind this offseason.

Please click "Read More" below, for the TWolves Blog.com's Staff answers to such things as, "Will the NBA lose part/all of the 2011-12 season due to the lockout", "Who's at fault", "How this will affect basketball in Minnesota", "What the TWB Staff members will be doing during the lockout", and much more!

Uh-oh... some discouraging news today from The Star Tribune:

Timberwolves forward Michael Beasley was cited for marijuana possession after being pulled over for speeding in Minnetonka, police said Wednesday.

The traffic stop occurred about 3 a.m. June 26 on Hwy. 12 near Carlson Parkway, said police Capt. Scott Boerboom. Beasley was driving 84 miles per hour in a 65-mph zone, Boerboom said.

Officers who stopped Beasley, 22, smelled marijuana in the car and found slightly more than a half-ounce in the vehicle, Boerboom said.

A police report said the marijuana was found under the front seat. Beasley said the marijuana belonged to a friend whom he had just dropped off, according to the report.

Beasley, who was not under the influence, was cited and released, the captain said. Beasley lives in Orono, west of where he was stopped.

Timberwolves team spokesman Mike Cristaldi said Wednesday that the team cannot comment about Beasley's troubles because of "the current labor situation." A management lockout has the league shut down.

In February, Beasley was cited in Hennepin County for driving 70 mph in a 55-mph zone. He paid a $117 fine in that case.

In July 2010, after Beasley's trade to Minnesota from Miami, Timberwolves basketball boss David Kahn said in a radio interview that one of his new player's problems in Florida was that he "smoked too much marijuana." The NBA responded by fining Kahn and the team $50,000 each. The league called the comments "inappropriate."

Kahn, also in the interview on 1500 ESPN, suggested that Beasley would be a changed man once he arrived in Minnesota.

"He's a very young and immature kid who smoked too much marijuana and has told me that he's not smoking anymore," Kahn said, "and I told him that I would trust him as long as that was the case."

In August 2009, Yahoo! Sports reported that Beasley had checked into an unidentified Houston rehabilitation hospital.

In 2008, Beasley was chosen out of Kansas State second overall in the NBA draft by the Heat. Soon after, he was fined $50,000 by the NBA for being in a room where marijuana was found at a rookie symposium.

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He wasn't under the influence of anything, which is good. But overall though, it was 3AM and he was speeding with drugs in the car, so yeah... doesn't bode well for his "maturity issues." Ugh. I also wonder if this will change his role/place on the team going forward, especially now that we have Derrick Williams?

And just when you thought Beasley's trade value couldn't get any lower...

Well we can't trade him now after this (and drafting Derrick Williams.) We might as well keep him around and see what happens.  Will this humble him enough to accept the role as a Super Duper 6th man?  That would be ideal for everyone.  And after this, at least it won't cost us $8-$10 million per year to re-sign him (presumably.)

At least he is a good teammate, no one has ever said otherwise about that.

Come join us in the TWolves Blog Forums, where discussion about this (and much more) has been raging all day long.

No NBA fan is excited about the lockout, nor are any of the players. Money is something that will always get in the way of professional sports, and it's something we'll all have to deal with.

It's possible that the Wolves could "deal with" the situation better than others.

Obviously everyone would prefer to see the Wolves players develop in a game situation, but it might actually be for the better if some of the guys who will be the core of this team to hone certain aspects of their games.

Well... for anyone that's still around out there, come join us chatting and hanging out in the TWolves Blog Forums. Not like there's anything better to do right now.