Jonah Ballow/Timberwolves site on Kevin Love as the team’s rep for the NBA Draft Lottery this Tuesday:
For the first time, fans can take advantage of the development of technology that will allow Love to post instantaneous updates throughout the lottery process on his Twitter account. The increasingly popular social networking device will present a unique experience to follow the eventful night through the eyes of the former UCLA star.
“I’ve just been updating and talking about the playoffs, how I’m working out in LA, I got caught on TMZ getting a manicure and pedicure, that was pretty funny. Other than that, I will be updating on the draft lottery and the draft itself, so hopefully people will follow me and I try to do my best to just be funny on there as well,” Love explained.
From Tom Ziller/Fanhouse:
The most popular rumor of recent times had been that Taylor had mandated that franchise golden boy Fred Hoiberg stay in a leadership role in the front office. You can see why this might give pause to serious candidates — it’s difficult to remake a team when you have to keep the old regime in certain important roles. (Assistant general managers are really important in today’s NBA.)
But the McHale issue is a bit of a different beast, and honestly more benign. Many, many teams hire coaches before general managers. At some point you’ll hear the ol’ “he wants his own coach” thing, but incumbent coaches and new GMs can last a while. (See: Eddie Jordan, Ernie Grunfeld.) The bigger worry with Stein’s report is that Taylor doesn’t have a clue what he wants, and for all his talk about rebuilding he stills holds on to these reminders of the lean years … in powerful positions.
Regardless of McHale’s decision, Penn is walking into a workable situation in Minnesota. There are a lot of pieces there and a young dominant big man in Al Jefferson, who should hopefully be fully recovered at the start of next season. What’s held this franchise back the past few years is poor personnel decisions, which shouldn’t be an issue with Penn running the show.
Ex-Timberwolves guard Troy Hudson plans to manage a team in the Howard Pulley pro-am league that will begin June 15 with two games a night at the Salvation Army gym in St. Paul…
Injured Corey Brewer of the Timberwolves recently purchased a townhouse in downtown Minneapolis.