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| MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minnesota Timberwolves best days came with Flip Saunders on the sideline. Air Max 90 2019 Pas Cher . Now that the organization is shrouded in uncertainty surrounding the long-term future of star forward Kevin Love, Saunders is returning to the bench to try revive a franchise that hasnt made the playoffs in 10 years. With the teams coaching search complicated by Loves status, the Timberwolves decided the best course of action was to have Saunders, who was hired last season as president of basketball operations, step in for a second stint as coach until the situation stabilized, two people with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Thursday. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the team has not officially announced the move. A news conference was scheduled for Friday. Saunders previously coached the Timberwolves from 1995-2005. He won 411 games in 10 1/2 seasons in Minnesota and guided the Wolves to the only eight playoff appearances in franchise history, including the Western Conference finals in 2004. He has a career record of 638-526 in 16 seasons as an NBA head coach, a career that also includes stops in Detroit and Washington. Saunders is joining a short list in the NBA of coaches that also have final-say executive authority, one that includes newly hired Stan Van Gundy in Detroit, Doc Rivers with the Los Angeles Clippers and, to a certain extent, Gregg Popovich in San Antonio. Saunders will continue to work closely with GM Milt Newton in the front office while handling coaching duties. When Rick Adelman retired at the end of the regular season, he did so in part to try to help the Timberwolves move forward with a plan to show Love, a three-time All-Star who can opt out of his contract next summer, that there was a long-term plan in place for success. But Loves tenuous situation didnt help the search process, with trade rumours serving as a caution sign for several high-profile candidates. Saunders was in the market for a coach with extensive head coaching experience, either in the NBA or at a major college program, one that could command the respect of a young locker room and also handle the media scrutiny that comes with the questions surrounding Love. Names like Tom Izzo, Billy Donovan and Fred Hoiberg came and went without any traction. The Wolves hosted Memphis coach Dave Joerger for an interview two weekends ago, but Grizzlies owner Robert Pera sweetened his contract to keep him around. Sam Mitchell, Lionel Hollins, Scott Skiles and several others received consideration as well. Unable to find what they felt was the right fit for a delicate job, Saunders and owner Glen Taylor met this week to reassess the situation. Taylor said when he brought Saunders back as team president that he would not put him back on the bench. He fired Saunders as coach once before, in 2005 when Latrell Sprewell and Sam Cassell, unhappy with their contracts, submarined the follow-up to the teams stirring run to the Western Conference finals. Saunders was also hopeful that he could find someone other than himself to take over the team. But with Loves status preventing them from pursuing the coaches they felt would fit best, the two decided that Saunders should take over for at least this season if not longer. The Timberwolves have not given up on convincing Love to play out this season in Minnesota and re-sign next summer to a contract that can pay him and extra year and about $26.5 million more than any other team. It was not immediately clear what the appointment of Saunders would do for Loves desires to stay or go. Love has yet to make the playoffs in his six seasons in the league and is believed to be growing impatient with the Wolves, who finished 40-42 and in 10th place in the West this year. Love created a stir when he spent last weekend in Boston, where the Celtics are rumoured to be making a run at trading for the 25-year-old power forward before the June 26 draft. Just how long Saunders will coach remains to be seen. There is the possibility that Saunders will add assistants to his staff who could be groomed to eventually take over. The Wolves were expected to reach out to Mitchell, a former Timberwolves player and Raptors head coach, and David Blatt, who has spearheaded Russias return to Olympic relevance and coaches in Israel, to gauge their interest in joining his staff. Vapormax Femme Pas Cher . Rosbergs time of 1 minute, 33.185 seconds at the Bahrain International Circuit was a quarter of a second faster than Hamilton, who had to abandon his final flying lap after running wide at the first corner. Air Max 200 Pas Cher . According to a report from ESPN, the veteran safety has signed another one-year deal with the team Raiders, the team that drafted him, and who he returned to last year after a long stint with the Green Bay Packers. http://www.maxnikepascher.fr/destockage-air-vapormax/vapormax-97.html . Marcus Olsson, 23, joins Blackburn on a free transfer from Swedens Halmstads. He made 139 appearances and scored 17 goals in his four years with the club. He earned his first caps for Sweden this month, featuring against Bahrain and Qatar.NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Unlike his millionaire teammates, Brett Brackett doesnt go to a mansion after work. Home for the Tennessee tight end is a bedroom in an apartment shared with three Titans practice squad players — any of whom could be gone in 24 hours. Hes bounced himself from practice squad to roster and back again with the Titans and Seattle Seahawks nine times since September.So short-term rentals are a must when its time to pack up and move on.Its nice to have a month-to-month thing so youre not locked in or somebody you can split rent with like that, Brackett said.Chasing an NFL job leaves no time to be choosy about roommates or living conditions, and opportunities abound as the NFL season winds down. Through Wednesday, 279 players are on injured reserve around the league according to STATS. Teams juggle rosters, signing and releasing players to have enough before the next kickoff. That keeps players bouncing between practice squads and rosters hoping for the right fit at the bottom of an NFL roster.Guys who come along who have a chance at this point in the season to perform, to play and they go into games and have an opportunity to participate at this level when perhaps they had no snaps coming in before, said New York coach Tom Coughlin, who has a league-high 19 Giants on IR. Now theyre going to get snaps and they have a chance to prove their ability, not only to the New York Giants but to the entire NFL.Teams also sign players with an eye to next season.You see that happening on the wire every day, Titans coach Ken Whisenhunt said. Teams are trying to look at the back end of their roster and improve it and get opportunities. So yeah, it is an opportunity for some guys.Like Brackett, a 6-foot-5, 251-pound tight end out of Penn State.Brackett entered the NFL as an undrafted rookie in 2011. Now he turns 27 on Saturday having spent at least a few days with six different teams, including stints on the practice squads in Miami, Jacksonville, Philadelphia, Tennessee and Seattle. Some stops have been as short as two days. An injured knee three days after being claimed off waivers by the Jaguars in 2012 meant a whole season on injured reserve.This year has been Bracketts busiest. He started with a futures contract in Arizona in January before detouring through Miami and Tennessee with a quick stop in Seattle. The Titans have signed him the most, adding him to the practice squad three different times and later promoting him to the active roster before waiving him a couplle days later. Nike Vapormax Pas Cher Chine. Seattle claimed Brackett off waivers Oct. 21 only to cut him a week later, then signed him to the practice squad Oct. 30 only to see Tennessee poach him back by signing him to the roster once again Nov. 5.Even all those moves, Miami stands out.I went into camp the third day with Miami, then three days later I was cut because they had issues at another position, Brackett said. Then four days later they re-signed me, and three days later played in the first preseason game had three catches for 60 yards. That was within seven days I was on and off a team and then playing.He enjoyed a quick weekend at home in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, with the Dolphins saying theyd likely bring him back.Teams have said that before, and it doesnt exactly happen, things dont work out, Brackett said. This time it did. I went home, worked out a couple days and stayed ready hoping if that didnt work out something else would have.Staying in football shape can be a challenge. Brackett has options thanks to a former assistant strength coach at Penn State who now has the head job at Temple in Philadelphia a 45-minute train ride away, or a gym in town. He also can run routes at Delaware Valley College in Doylestown. In the off-season, he works with Uplifting Athletes helping raise money for rare diseases.NFL teams arrange travel when signing or releasing a player and also pay for lodging at a hotel for the first week. Then the player is on his own looking for an extended stay hotel or apartment after that. The bedroom hes staying in now freed up when another player was cut.But playing well matters most, so cram sessions with the new playbook are a must because even one word can mean something entirely different from team to team. The Titans are among those now using iPads also loaded with all the video needed for review. Some teams still require players to request video, making study less convenient.That accessibility is good because you can spend as much time as you want at night, Brackett said.Bracketts favourite team is an easy answer: Tennessee. He has played in six games, starting the last three for a team with two tight ends on injured reserve, and that chance to play even for a team at 2-11 trumps being on the practice squad with a winner like Seattle.As much as Ive been through, Im looking for an opportunity, Brackett said.___Online:AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP_NFL___Follow Teresa M. Walker at www.twitter.com/teresamwalker ' ' ' |
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