In just a few weeks, Kevin Love will be banging bodies with some of the
NBA’s most talented and physical players. But, on Tuesday, he was back
at home, hanging out with a handful of former teammates at the Lake
Oswego gym and posting up elementary school students.
 
Less than a week after being selected fifth in the NBA draft and
ultimately traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves, Love was the featured
draw at a youth basketball camp…
 
Love will leave again on Thursday, heading back to Los Angeles to
continue work outs. But, if even for just a brief time, he enjoyed
being back in his home town.
 
 
 
OK, so Kevin Love allegedly is too short for consideration as a
legitimate center, but the kid can rebound and has enough heft left
over from his pre-draft fitness regime to score in the post.
 
New teammate Al Jefferson is a 20-10 machine (yeah, someone has to get
numbers on a bad team) and shooter Mike Miller joins enough good, young
prospects to make Minnesota a team to reckon with … later, not now.
 
It seems that Kevin McHale still remains one Kevin short of making any kind of eye-popping turnaround next season.
 
 
 
Mille Lacs County Times sportswriters on the team’s trade for Kevin Love.  

 

 
 
From the Daily Herald:
The Bulls announced today that Del Harris, Bernie Bickerstaff and Bob
Ociepka will be hired as assistant coaches on Vinny Del Negro’s
coaching staff…
 
Ociepka (Oh-seep-ka), 59, brings more than 30 years of coaching
experience to the Bulls. With 19 years of service as an NBA assistant
coach, he has spent the past two seasons on the bench with the
Minnesota Timberwolves.
 
 
 

The countdown to Minnesota’s PGA Championship will begin at noon on
Wednesday, July 9 with a ceremonial tee off event at Hazeltine National
Golf Club in Chaska and helping to kick off the event will be four
local high school golfers…
 
They will be part of a simultaneous tee off by celebrated Minnesotans
who are part of the state’s golf and sports community, including Tim
Brewster, University of Minnesota; Chad Greenway, Minnesota Vikings;
Tim Laudner, Minnesota Twins; Brad Bombardir, Minnesota Wild; Fred
Hoiberg, Minnesota Timberwolves; Michael Belot, 2009 PGA Championship
tournament director; and Jim Dauwalter, 2009 PGA Championship general
chair.