In either case, it won’t impact the team’s draft strategy.
“I remember when I was at Indiana for nine years there were at least two occasions where we didn’t hire a coach until well after the draft,” Kahn said. “One can make an argument, and I’m not playing it this way, but since we have so many picks and might change some things, you figure that out first and then find the coach piece because maybe the personnel will dictate the decision. We are not playing it that way. I assure you. I’m just pointing out that you can look at it a couple different ways.”
Kahn, in an e-mail today, described the meeting as “impromptu” and declined further comment.
If that’s the case, the Timberwolves could target longtime coach and TV analyst Mike Fratello. Kahn and Fratello have been a part of the same organization before, when both had a hand in NBC’s pro basketball coverage in the early 1990s. Fratello was a color analyst and Kahn worked on the network’s “Showtime” show.
Other names floated by Minneapolis Star-Tribune NBA reporter Jerry Zgoda as possible McHale replacements: Sam Mitchell, Avery Johnson, Jeff Van Gundy and Boston assistant Tom Thibodeau — who has to be the most mentioned candidate never to have landed a job in league history.
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