Look for Beach Boys lead singer Mike Love, who showed up at Target Center to attend nephew Kevin Love’s first game at a Timberwolf last year, to return to Minneapolis for this year’s Target Center season opener…
Timberwolves coach Kurt Rambis has eight NBA championship rings — four as a player, four as an assistant — but doesn’t wear any of them. “This is the ring that’s most important,” he said, showing his wedding ring.
From El Periodico (link and translation via HoopsHype):
How’s your relationship with Minnesota and the NBA? Ricky Rubio: Good, I have to be thankful to David Kahn because he made a great effort so that I could go there. When he left, he wished my luck and told me he hoped I would play in Minnesota one day.
Rambis’ search for candidates with championship pedigrees as well as both head-coaching experience and aspirations produced a staff that includes Bill Laimbeer, the most insufferable member from the Detroit Pistons’ “Bad Boys” teams of the late 1980s and early 1990s, two-time NBA All-Star guard and former Sacramento head coach Reggie Theus and Dave Wohl, an assistant coach on those 1980s Lakers teams and former New Jersey head coach.
The only Wolves coach who didn’t play in the NBA is J.B. Bickerstaff, who grew up in the league because his father, Bernie, is a longtime head coach and executive. Bickerstaff is also the only assistant who held that same job last season for McHale and Randy Wittman.
The only Wolves coach who didn’t play in the NBA is J.B. Bickerstaff, who grew up in the league because his father, Bernie, is a longtime head coach and executive. Bickerstaff is also the only assistant who held that same job last season for McHale and Randy Wittman.
“If the players ask about situations, these guys have actually, physically gone through it,” Rambis said. “They’ve lived through losing environments, they’ve lived through winning environments. With all our years in the league, we’ve probably experienced everything and anything that all of these players are going to go through.