From Kevin Love's twitter page:

kevin_love:
Today is a sad day...Kevin McHale will NOT be back as head coach next season.

Interesting... contradicts previous reports of him being back with an assistant "former head coach" coach under him.

It'll be an unpleasant sight to watch try to find someone who's willing to deal with the madness here. I'm all for Sam Mitchell as of now... but we'll see. Hopefully it won't another in line behind Casey/Wittman.

Everyone should face it though, McHale had to go. It's the only way this fanbase can begin to heal from the past 12+ years. I'm not spouting hyperbole here, I just don't think fans could allow him to come back.

If this is true, it's great news imo.

WHoa!!!!!! I thought forsure he was going to be back.

But...I guess it's time...it's time for him to move on so that people will forget about him and his decisions as GM. If he sticks around people will still be reminding him of his draft picks and free agent signings so I guess if I was him I would move on from that also.

Great player, represented Minnesota well, but awful GM and personnel director.

You brought us 1 good year but a lot of hair pulling and head scratching years.

Lets get the coaching speculations rolling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but on another note....sigh........you guys living in MN, aren't you guys tired of speculations???

Who's going to be the new GM??
McHale back as coach or not??
Who will we draft???
with the 6th pick??
with the 18th pick??
with the 28th pick??
trades??? moving up in the draft??
Bret Farve or not Bret Farve???... I say yes Bret Farve by the way.
Now who's going to be coach of the Wolves??
oh...and the Wilds too, but I don't pay much attention to hockey but for those of you who do, I guess it's extra speculation.

Sigh....I can't wait for all this to be over...and we could just play some games!!!!!

9Deuce wrote:
but on another note....sigh........you guys living in MN, aren't you guys tired of speculations???


Ummmmm yes. Completely. Please god make it stop. Especially the Favre talk...

Doogie apparently talked to KLove tonight, who confirmed that he had indeed talked with McHale... hence his tweet.

Looks like it's legit.

College Wolf wrote:
Everyone should face it though, McHale had to go. It's the only way this fanbase can begin to heal from the past 12+ years. I'm not spouting hyperbole here, I just don't think fans could allow him to come back.

If this is true, it's great news imo.

I agree. He did some good stuff for the team in the early years and I did appreciate his ability to dump his bad contracts these last few years, but then again the bad contracts, draft day trades, Joe Smith signings, Ebi drafts, etc, were his fault to begin with. The time to have him leave was long overdue. I am trying to see the man in more of a positive light but I am very glad that he's gone.

Now it is time to get a real coach like Avery Johnson, Jeff Van Gundy, or Sam Mitchell.

I would absolutely LOVE IT, but there is no way that Jeff Van Gundy coaches us.

He is definitely my #1 choice. Then again, he's so great commenting on NBA games, it would almost be a shame to lose him from the broadcasting booth...

This was inevitable. Now that one can hope the McHale era is over, fans can be reasonably assured his influence is gone from the front office. Just as I have always said, the man ran this organization since roughly 1995. He just doesn't all of a sudden stop having influence simply because he's coaching the team. It was time to go.

With MOST of the influence gone from this organization that plagued it for far too long, The Daddy can once again feel a bit of optimism that the Wolves can at least rise from obscurity to become a relevent, competent organization. With Glen at the helm, I doubt we win a championship within the next two decades (I also doubt he'll live/own the team that long). But WITHOUT McHale anywhere near the helm, I doubt we toil in complete obscurity much longer.

I'm aleady salivating at the coaching possibilities (Not Lambeer ). Who would quench our thirst for competency? Van Gundy obviously...Mitchell? I'm hesitant for a guy who players voted as the least like coach. Whatever the case may be, let's get it. The Daddy is officially thirsty for a team to root for. I'm not going to shed my Depressing Daddy routine yet, but I'm getting closer!

As my Dos Equis buddy tells me, "Stay Thirsty My Friends!"

Sam Mitchell is the only name on the radar I don't want to see hired. As poor as his reputation is right now I can't see Kahn going that way.

College Wolf wrote:
I would absolutely LOVE IT, but there is no way that Jeff Van Gundy coaches us.

He is definitely my #1 choice. Then again, he's so great commenting on NBA games, it would almost be a shame to lose him from the broadcasting booth...

He would be an excellent change!!

My guess would be that Kahn hires a "up and coming" D-League coach.

College Wolf wrote:
My guess would be that Kahn hires a "up and coming" D-League coach.

Yikes, lets hope not!

I must say I'm quite surprised. There are two solid sides to the situation. One of which was McHale having the players in line. But I think Doogie put it well in his column this morning when he discussed how important it is to have a strategist in crunch time. McHale was far from that, instead alluding to his northern Minnesota charm to essentially bail out the water and keep the ship afloat this season

I think in the end its the right call. I admittedly would have been fine with him returning, but as this team continues to add piaces and (hopefully) begins to contend for a playoff spot, it is going to be the # of WINS we will be rooting for, not # of losses to improve the draft pick. The key is making a careful decision. Someone with a winning track record in the NBA.

Should be an interesting addition to the soap opera to see how the Wolves react to what was clearly a PR folly on Love's part.

I think it is good news for the Wolves.
I also think that if this was a Kahn decision that the replacement is probably already known. It would be logical to have a coach on board who will be leading the team the next year prior to the draft.
However, if this was a move by McHale and he informed the players prior to Kahn, then nothing will be in place. It is possible Laimbeer was going to be hired as the strategist and McHale didn't like that.

As for Love breaking the news,I think He knows he is on his way out with the Wolves and took a passive aggressive approach to getting back at the team. Love appears to be a little more astute than just blurt out info like that.
Laimbeer will be with the Wolves in some capacity in the next couple of days.

Rob

I think this is good news. Sure, McHale did a decent (not great) job as coach, but can he last a full year/years? Do we really still want him around? Is he really a better coach than other candidates? The answer is no. He had to go. I'm glad it has happened.

As far as the K. Love as the newsbreaker thing goes, I don't think its a big deal. I mean, did the Wolves really want to make some big announcement today about McHale not coming back? Doubtful - they probably wanted him to go as quietly as possible. Love did the dirty work for them!