Previews for tonight’s game against Charlotte.
Coach Kevin McHale said he hopes Collins can return but wouldn’t speculate on Foye (sprained right ankle) or Carney (bruised groin/abdomen).
“It’s very hard to say,” McHale said. “We’ll see tomorrow.”
Gomes said he has his fingers crossed and that he couldn’t recall playing a game with so few players in uniform.
“Before the game, we were standing out there before we meet up and huddle up as players,” he said, “and I was, ‘Are you sure this is all we got?’ “
Asked after Friday’s morning shootaround if he felt any more like a coach than he did before the Dec. 26 game against the Knicks, McHale had a one-word answer: “Nope.”
He had the same response to a follow-up question about whether coaching still isn’t his first choice as an NBA career.
“Look, you’re here to help the guys,” McHale said. “You’re here to try to get them to play the best basketball. You’re here to try to put them in positions to succeed. You’re here to try to help them. That’s how I look at coaching.
“It’s a players league. You’re here to help the players. I’ve always believed that. I think the players sense that. They respond to that. I’m not here saying, ‘Hey, you guys got to play good so I can get another contract. You guys are screwing me,’ and all that stuff. I’ve never felt like that”
Steve Aschburner/SI.com on Wolves owner Glen Taylor:
This week, the magazine’s Web site pegs Taylor at $2.4 billion. That’s a 27 percent drop, not unlike a lot of regular folks’ retirement accounts and right in line with the 23 percent by which the fortunes of the world’s billionaires allegedly shrank over the past 12 months.
Not to worry: Taylor still has his seven million chickens hard at work on his agribusiness production lines in Iowa and Minnesota, laying what gets sold as liquefied eggs to restaurants and food companies. He hasn’t had to cut any grim deals with KFC or invite a few of his top producers home for (gulp) dinner. But he has laid off some human workers across his various enterprises. And the “business with problems” he’s most intimately involved with now is one that, for so long, seemed recession-proof: The T’wolves.
“I’m very concerned for pro sports,” Taylor said. “I could talk about banks or health care or the media business. I don’t think pro sports is protected in any sense.”
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