The Tulsa 66ers selected Chris Richard, a 6-9 center/forward from Florida, with the first overall selection in the 2008 NBA Development League Draft…
Richard, who was drafted by Minnesota with the 41st overall selection in the 2007 NBA Draft, played with the Timberwolves for the entirety of the 2007-08 season, appearing in 52 games . Richard was also featured on Minnesota’s 2008 summer league and preseason rosters.
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Jerry Zgoda/Star Tribune previews the game.
Wolves rookie Kevin Love returns home to Portland tonight. The last time he played in his home state, University of Oregon fans unleashed obscenities at him and his family because he chose to play for UCLA rather than the Ducks.
Love called that night last winter “an awful, awful reception” he hopes won’t come close to a repeat tonight.
Upset that Love had chosen UCLA over his father Stan’s old school, the Pit Crew, Oregon’s 1,500-member student fan club, directed a steady stream of obscenities and verbal abuse at the freshman center and his family, including his grandmother and 13-year-old sister.
Then there were the death threats left on his cell phone.
“Probably 500-plus, I would guess,” Love said. “It was a lot because it was over like a five-day period. I probably got a couple calls every 5-10 minutes.”