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From Marc Stein/ESPN:
Interest remains high in Minnesota sharpshooter Mike Miller, but NBA front-office sources say Rashad McCants is the swingman being shopped hardest by the Wolves.
Earning just $2.6 million in the final year of his contract, McCants would appear to be movable even though he has dropped out of the Wolves’ plans.
McHale considers Love’s natural progression a steady increase in playing time — from the 23 minutes a game he averaged before Smith was injured Tuesday at Indiana — rather than this transition into the starting lineup.
“His time would have increased and it will increase,” McHale said. “I was already saying to myself that we have to get him from 23, 24, 25 minutes to the low 30-minute mark. I don’t think it would behoove him to play much more than that right now, not as a rookie with as strenuous as our schedule is and where Kevin’s at.
“You get tired. He’s still maturing into a grown man’s body. He’s in that funny phase where you go from young man to grown man. Anybody who’s 6-9 or 6-10 and has done it understands it’s a weird thing when you make that transformation.”
Mike Monroe/Express-News ranks the league’s six interim coaches.
Replaced: Randy Wittman on Dec. 8
Wittman’s record: 4-15 (.210)
McHale’s record: 13-17 (.433)
Outlook: McHale doesn’t really like coaching, but he put this roster together as GM, and it seems he had a master plan that finally is being carried out on the court. His players are responding to him. Like it or not, owner Glen Taylor is apt to make him keep a job he seems to do well.
Jerry Zgoda/Star Tribune on team needs and future draft picks.
From Sid Hartman:
AEG, the West Coast company that operates Target Center, is in the process of drawing plans to modernize the local arena and is hopeful that Minneapolis city officials will come up with the money necessary to do it so the arena can compete with the more modern Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. … Despite the fact that the Lynx lose a lot of money, owner Glen Taylor has no plans to eliminate the WNBA team, as other cities have and others are considering.
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