Kevin McHale was not.
The Wolves held the first morning of four days of pre-draft workouts that brought representatives from 20 NBA teams Monday and while front-office staff Fred Hoiberg, Jim Stack, Rob Babcock, Zarko Durisic and assistant coaches Jerry Sichting, Dean Cooper and J.B. Bickerstaff all were there (Ed Pinckney is in China on NBA business), McHale didn’t attend because he and new presidentof basketball operations David Kahn still are in discussions to determine his future with the team.
“We’re still very much in a process to determine if he, or whoever, will coach,” Kahn said after the morning workouts. “Until that process plays itself out, I think it would too much on him and it’d probably make it very uncomfortable with other people here. I think it’s not appropriate yet until we resolve it. It’d be more appropriate once we have it resolved.”
“Not now,” he said. “It’ll be this week.”
Former Wolves coach Randy Wittman, now an assistant coach with the Washington Wizards, was among those in attendance this morning, along with front-office heavyweights such as Larry Bird (Pacers), Danny Ainge (Celtics) and Donnie Walsh (Knicks).
Wolves assistant coaches Jerry Sichting, J.B. Bickerstaff and Dean Cooper helped run the workouts. Assistant coach Ed Pinckney is with an NBA group in China.
Ohio State center B.J. Mullens was the big name among the players in the morning workout.
Gonzaga forward Austin Daye, Georgia Tech forward Gani Lawal and UCLA guard Darren Collison are among six players who will work out this afternoon.
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