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Game previews:
The Wolves, winners of six of their past seven games and eight of 11, are still proving to themselves how good they can be. Exacting revenge on the Clippers is not necessarily a priority.
“We’re a completely different team right now,” guard Sebastian Telfair said after Sunday’s practice at Los Angeles Southwest College. “You’ve got to take it personally that they worked us over last game. We’re just going to go out and try to win in any fashion.”
McHale acknowledged that the season’s low point was that brutal loss to the Clippers because it was after that that owner Glen Taylor moved McHale out of the front office.
“Glen said we’re probably going to make a change. I wasn’t feeling very good,” McHale said.
The Wolves worked out for a little more than an hour today in Los Angeles in preparation for tomorrow’s early 12:30 game (L.A. time) because of the Martin Luther King Day holiday.
Afterward, they stepped out into the sunshine to admire Craig Smith’s Bentley convertible before Smith and Jason Collins drove away in their own cars. Both are L.A. residents.
The Wolves exercised contract options on Randy Foye and Corey Brewer in October but decided against guaranteeing Carney a raise from $1.6 million this season to $2.5 million next season. The decision will make him an unrestricted free agent in July.
The Wolves did so to give themselves time to evaluate a player — and vice versa — they acquired last summer as something of an afterthought in a trade with Philadelphia. They received a future first-round pick in return for accepting Carney, Calvin Booth and their salaries in a bit of salary-cap bookkeeping that let the 76ers sign free-agent Elton Brand to an $80 million deal…
“It gives you a chance to spend time around the guy, get a chance to know them,” McHale said. “That was a big part of our decision in last year’s draft. … So I’m sure next summer we’ll be saying we want to bring Rodney back. It’s one of those things. We’ll have to work a little harder because other teams will be in on it.
Bob Sansevere/Pioneer Press interviews Pooh Richardson.
The worst advice? It was from the friends who told me to go to Indiana. I’m not saying Indiana was a bad place or a bad team, but I was a Timberwolf, and that’s where I should have stayed.
K.G. can win a championship with Boston, but in his heart he’s a Timberwolf. He knows that. If you ask him if he could have done that same thing and win a championship in Minnesota, I think his answer is yes.
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