Rick Adelman is the new head coach of the Timberwolves, but it is not the job he preferred.
According to a report, Adelman badly wanted to coach the Lakers and would have been hired by Mitch Kupchak if not the need to defer to the desire for Mike Brown held by Jim Buss.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=A ... ves_091211
A little OT for this forum but a little more on Adelman - Kahn chemistry:
After Rick Adelman coached his final game with the Houston Rockets in April, Minnesota Timberwolves general manager David Kahn found the coach in the corridors of the Target Center. It wouldn’t be long until Adelman would be searching for a job, and Kahn a coach. Let’s talk this summer, Kahn was heard to tell him. This was a conversation that Adelman preferred to never have again in his life, but circumstances change. And money matters.
Privately, Adelman didn’t disguise his disdain for Kahn. They go back to Adelman’s glory days coaching the Portland Trail Blazers in the late 1980s and 1990s, when Kahn was covering the NBA beat as a sportswriter for the Oregonian. The idea that a bad sportswriter had turned into a brutal NBA executive troubled him, sources said. He couldn’t stand him then, and had no intention of resurrecting a working relationship with the man.
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