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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 |
Chad Ford/ESPN on what the lottery teams would do with the #1 pick in the draft. On the Wolves:
Odds of winning the lottery: 13.8 percent
The Wolves need a franchise point guard more than they need a franchise power forward. Al Jefferson is having an All-Star-caliber season, but Sebastian Telfair is easily replaceable.
However, the Wolves would likely opt for Beasley. Jefferson can move to the center position if Beasley comes on board. And the Wolves still believe that Randy Foye will eventually be the team's point guard.
If I were Kevin McHale, I'd go with Rose. But, since McHale almost
always gets this wrong come June, we'll stick with Beasley here.
A River Hills home belonging to former NBA star Latrell Sprewell was foreclosed on Monday after he failed to show up in court to Monday contest the action brought by a bank that held his mortgage.
The holder of the mortgage, RBS Citizens Bank, told Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge David Hansher that Sprewell owes $320,284. According to River Hills records, the house is assessed at $610,000 and has an estimated fair market value of $667,980; he bought the house in 1994 for $405,000.
Gary Parrish/CBS Sports lists the top 10 high school players from every year since 2002 and notes where they are now. The
lists include a few current and former Timberwolves players.
Most likely draft spot: Third
Biggest need: Power forward. With 2006 lottery pick Randy Foye
at point guard, the Wolves could solidify their frontcourt for the
future by adding Beasley.
Most likely to select at No. 1: Michael Beasley. As long as the
Wolves can play Al Jefferson at center, there's room for Beasley to
slide into the power forward position.
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
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Timberwolves forward Ryan Gomes is also Cape Verdean, and while the ex-Celtic was considering playing for the country, impending fatherhood led him to decline the invitation.
"My goal is to definitely play for the team in 2012 and hopefully
qualify for the Olympics," said Gomes. "It's an honor to have been
asked to play for the team and represent where my family and I are
from."
Think about one other person. Think about Maria Contardo, a student advocate at East Side High in Newark, N.J. She has two kids of her own, but also helped raise Randy Foye, once a star at Villanova and now a guard for the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves, after Foye was abandoned on the streets as a young kid.
The day before the 2006 NBA draft -- a draft in which Foye would be selected seventh -- she could scarcely contain herself.
''There's no blood running,'' she said, ''but it can't be any better if he was a blood relative. It can't be.''
Now the Bulls will move on to the next round of interviews, certain to
include Johnson this week. Paxson has revealed his desire to connect
personally with his hire, though. And despite certain shared
philosophical beliefs, it's hard picturing Johnson and Paxson hitting
it off.
Sources said Casey interviewed along with Rick Carlisle because the
latter talked about making the former Timberwolves coach his lead
assistant should Carlisle land the job. That same scenario could play
out in Dallas, which just hired Carlisle, should Casey not land the
Bulls job.
They will continue to consider former Minnesota coach Dwane Casey, who
has already interviewed once with the Bulls and is bound for Dallas as
an assistant to Rick Carlisle if he can't get the Bulls' job.
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Sunday, 11 May 2008 |
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Myles Brown/SLAM Online posts the second part of his recent interview with The Rake's Britt Robson. Click here for part one of the interview.
Former Timberwolves teammates Kevin Garnett and Joe Smith (now a Cavalier) always get together to honor their late teammate Malik Sealy each time they play against each other.
Sealy was killed in a Minneapolis suburb May 20, 2000, while driving
home from Garnett's birthday party when his SUV was struck by a drunken
driver's pickup truck traveling the wrong way down the highway.
"Even now, in this series, when I check into the game we have a certain
greeting for each other," Smith said. "We both have a tattoo of Malik
Sealy on our arms from when he passed away. So we touch the tattoos
together and give each other a little brief hug. We are pretty close.
Smith said he
thought Phengsene “got off too easy,” after the incident. He has since
been charged in two more drunken-driving cases.
One came in October 2006. Then, on March 30, 2008, Phengsene was arrested in Minneapolis on suspicion of drunken driving.
He was sentenced to another eight years in prison on April 28.
The Timberwolves, who have the Nos. 31 and 34 picks in June's NBA draft, have had five front-office officials scouting in Europe since the end of the regular season, and it's a good bet that at least one, or both picks, could be used on overseas prospects.
Meet grandmother Ruth Martin. Today, Foye -- who still lives in New
Jersey in the offseason -- will have a party in his back yard for
Martin, and for Betty Foye, his other grandmother. Together, they kept
Foye on the right path.
"She was so important," Foye said of Martin. "She showed me the ins and
outs of being a man, which I needed because there wasn't a role model
around me at the time. She showed me how to treat people, how you treat
a woman, things like that."
In hoops news, NBA rookies Al Horford and Taurean Green are back on Florida's campus this month taking classes during the Summer A session. Corey Brewer wanted to come back, too, but his offseason workout schedule with the Timberwolves prevented it.
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Saturday, 10 May 2008 |
Myles Brown/SLAM Online discusses with The Rake's Britt Robson " the sibling rift between accredited journalists and their blogging brethren along with a host of other topics."
UNC has produced a young crop of NBA talent as well. Raymond Felton has finished in the top 10 in the league in assists during his first two seasons; Marvin Williams has helped transform the Atlanta Hawks into playoff contenders, and Rashad McCants was the Minnesota Timberwolves' second-leading scorer this season. Sean May and Brandan Wright are also former Tar Heels who look to play a significant role on their teams next season.
The Dallas Mavericks and Rick Carlisle reached a verbal agreement on a four-year coaching contract Friday night that seals his hiring as Avery Johnson's successor...
...Carlisle arrived in Dallas on Thursday with his family. Both he and the
Mavericks expected a Friday news conference. Carlisle was joined in
town by the two former NBA head coaches -- Dwane Casey and Terry Stotts
-- who will be hired as assistants on his new staff.
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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Timberwolves assistant GM Fred Hoiberg will represent the team at the NBA draft lottery on May 20 in Secaucus, N.J. The Wolves have a 13.8 percent chance of getting the No. 1 pick and a 14.2 percent chance of getting No. 2. They currently are in the No. 3 spot. The lowest spot the Wolves could fall to is No. 6.
Hoiberg represented the Wolves in the 2004 lottery,
when they had the No. 14 spot and a .5 percent chance of moving up.
They didn't budge.
Hoiberg didn't take any good-luck charms to that lottery but says he will this time. He won't reveal what he's taking, however.
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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Mankato businessman Glen Taylor and his wife Becky are donating $7
million to Minnesota State University Mankato. The money will establish
an institute, a faculty position and a scholarship, all centered around
nursing.
Glen Taylor is a graduate of Mankato State. He has a long history of philanthropy to his alma mater...
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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Green and Horford, part of the magical 2004 class that led Florida to back-to-back national titles in 2006-07, have returned to Florida to enroll in classes for the first summer session.
Classmate Corey Brewer wanted to join then, but his offseason workout
schedule with the Minnesota Timberwolves conflicted with the six-week
class period.
10,000 Takes on Christian Laettner's upcoming induction into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame
Foye and Pinckney are part of a group headlined by current Turkish
players Mehmet Okur and Hedo Turkoglu that will hold camp at
Darüssafaka Tesisleri, Ayhan Sahenk Spor Salonu in Istanbul from June
4-7. Basketball without Borders Europe was last held in Istanbul in
2002, though the city was part of NBA Europe Live 2007, which featured
the Timberwolves playing an exhibition game against local pro team Efes
Pilsen Istanbul. Also joining Foye and Pinckney in Turkey are current
NBA players Bruce Bowen, David Lee and Mickael Pietrus, along with
former Timberwolves coach Dwane Casey.
Every major franchise or team in the Star Tribune's coverage area —
just like most franchises or teams in most newspapers' coverage areas —
has multiple blogs devoted to it, featuring the work of both passionate
fans and inflamed critics. To use one example, at any random
Timberwolves games this past season, there were no fewer than three or
four writers from alternative media sources, representing online
outlets such as Hoopsworld.com, SLAMonline.com and the thinking fan's
site of choice, Britt Robson's "On the Ball'' from rakemag.com. Me? I was there a lot, too, representing both MinnPost.com and SI.com, where I'm a regular contributor.
Carlisle is
expected to bring his own crew of assistant coaches, though Paul
Westphal, Joe Prunty, Mario Elie and Popeye Jones all have one more
year on their contracts. Former NBA head coaches Dwane Casey and Terry
Stotts have been mentioned as possible targets for Carlisle's staff.
Phone rang last night and it was Rob Babcock calling. He did not apologize for not drafting Andre Iguodala, but at this point it's understood. Instead he was calling to offer his appreciation on Chuck Swirsky, who, as we all know, is heading to Chicago...
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 |
Timberwolves coach Randy Wittman said all his assistant coaches
will return for the 2008-2009 season. ... Corey Brewer and Chris
Richard, the two top draft choices last year, will start summer
workouts soon, with other players to follow later. Wittman said the
club will start bringing in draft candidates June l.
Point guard Randy Foye, assistant coach Ed Pinckney and athletic
trainer Gregg Farnam have been asked by the NBA to participate in this
year's Basketball Without Borders program.
Foye and Pinckney will go to Turkey in June, and Farnam will go to India in July.
The millions of dollars doled out to professional athletes, including
some native Chicagoans, doesn't shield them from the perils ofstreet
violence and brazen home invasions.
When it comes to targeted armed attacks or random assaults, the list of victims in the last 10 months with local ties includes Antoine Walker, Eddy Curry and, most recently, Rashard Mendenhall.
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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CHICAGO Bull Joakim Noah enjoying table dances at Scores East while Minnesota Timberwolf Sebastian Telfair and male model Marcus Schenkenberg were similarly distracted .
RandBall creates a team using only ex-Wolves from the teams still left in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
That stance quickly led Dallas to Carlisle, who, according to team
sources, plans to bring two recent former NBA head coaches -- Dwane
Casey and Terry Stotts -- to Dallas as assistants on his staff.
Along with Orlando's Dwight
Howard, Minnesota's Al Jefferson and Washington's Antawn Jamison,
Boozer was one of four NBA players to average at least 20 points and 10
rebounds this season.
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 |
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The Minnesota Timberwolves are not having much luck trying to get Antoine Walker to accept a buy out.
The Timberwolves site has launched Draft Central 2008- a page dedicated to providing info on potential draft picks.
From RandBall: Revisionist history: What if Cassell wasn’t hurt?
But Szczerbiak supposedly took exception to being
treated like a bug in the years following his rookie season, and he and
Garnett got into a confrontation over respect. The two appeared to have
patched things up. No matter, Szczerbiak eventually was shipped off in
one of Kevin McHale's worst deals. Ricky Davis was the co-headliner,
and a heap of lousy players were included both ways. But, of course,
McHale tossed in a first-round pick.
Now Wally and K.G. are facing each other. The winner
gets the right (most likely) to face Saunders and his Detroit Pistons
in the conference finals. The Pistons aren't having many problems
against the Orlando Magic.
Saunders was another guy "done wrong" by McHale...
The Wild ranked 31st among 122 professional sports teams based on fan satisfaction in a survey of more than 80,000 fans by ESPN. The Indianapolis Colts were No. 1, the Green Bay Packers No. 4, the Twins No. 39, the Vikings No. 110 and the Timberwolves No. 118. Criteria included what the teams "give back to fans who invest their time and money in the organization."
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