From Chip Crain/3 Shades Of Blue: Who Needs to Win the Lottery: the TimberWolves
A little birdie says the offer the Timberwolves would make to former Indiana Pacers general manager David Kahn would make him the lowest-paid GM in the NBA at $500,000 the first year, $700,000 the second year. It’s unclear whether there would be a third year. NBA Commissioner David Stern is a big backer of Kahn, who multiple sources say is a salary cap and administrative genius but virtually devoid of personality.
A more viable prospect appears to be Portland Trail Blazers assistant GM Tom Penn…
Kevin McHale, asked Saturday about his coaching status with the Timberwolves: “The organization has some decisions to make first as far as GM before they do anything second, so we’ll see what happens.”
Landry, who averaged a team-leading 12.7 points while grabbing 4.6 rebounds a game last season for the Badgers, will have his first workout today for the Houston Rockets. Landry’s brother, Carl. is a reserve forward for the Rockets.
Marcus Landry will also work out for the Chicago Bulls next month and is expected to work out for Detroit, Sacramento, Minnesota and Memphis as well.
Carney came through — not only for Moore’s nephew’s team, but also for another AAU team associated with McKinney’s team.
“I asked him for 12 pairs of shoes. He bought me 44 pairs of the Adidas (shoes) that the Louisville Cardinals wore during the NCAA tournament,” Moore said. “He didn’t do it for publicity. He hasn’t said a word to me about it since then, and I just talked to him the other day. He did it because I asked him to do it.”
Moore said this isn’t the first example of Carney’s generosity for the youth of his former community.
“He’s just a very down-to-earth fellow,” Moore said. “The year before last, he bought 12 laptop computers to donate to students heading off to college. Each of these laptops was $700. This year he’s doing that again. He does a lot of things that nobody else knows about.”