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Sunday, 27 April 2008
If Brown is hired, the Bulls also should hire former Minnesota Timberwolves coach Dwane Casey as lead assistant with the provision that he'd take over the top job in two or three years.
 
Casey, believed to be among the candidates Paxson is considering, was a highly regarded assistant with the Seattle SuperSonics before being hired by the Timberwolves.
 
He wasn't given much of a chance to turn around the T-wolves before being fired.
 
 
 
Scott Souza/Metrowest Daily News on Celtics play-by-play man Mike Gorman:
He admits some years that was more difficult than others. The M.L. Carr reign was tough. The youth movement under Danny Ainge that preceded this summer's monster trades, though, was not as bad as one might imagine.
 
"It wasn't hard to be positive then because I liked all those young guys," he said. "I still think Al Jefferson is going to be a great player. I was saying that I wouldn't have traded Al Jefferson for Kevin Garnett. I'm pretty sure I'm on the record that I would not have made that deal."
 
 
 
Smith was involved in a salary-cap tampering scandal in October 2000 while playing in Minnesota.
 
The 6-foot-10, 225-pounder signed with the Timberwolves for $2.5 million, below his market value, and agreed to a wink-wink, future multi-year contract. When word leaked of the deal, NBA commissioner David Stern fined the Timberwolves $3.5 million, voided Smith's contract and stripped the team of five first-round picks. Two of the picks were later returned.
 
''I've kind of put it behind me,'' he said. ''I still get asked about it. I'm trying to leave it alone and go on with my career.''
 
 
    
In 1990, years before selling naming rights became standard for sports arenas, Target arranged to have its name and logo put on the new Timberwolves arena in Minneapolis. Ulrich clinched the deal for a mere $250,000 a year.
 
 
 
And the chardonnay really turns to vinegar when your team devolves into a bottom feeder — like the Minnesota Timberwolves, who recently wrapped up their worst season since 1991-92 and are watching the NBA playoffs on TV for the fourth straight year.
 
Meanwhile, there are former Wolves all over the playoff map, dotting the landscape like pieces of a balloon that suddenly went “pop" (which, come to think of it, isn't a bad analogy for what has happened to basketball in Minnesota).
 
 
 
 



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