Wolves Updates 7/8

The Timberwolves site posts the team’s full summer league roster as well as the summer league tv schedule.  
 
 
Although the leaguewide consensus remains that Brand will return to Hollywood to form a new partnership with Clipper-to-be Baron Davis, sources said the Sixers are growing increasingly confident in their ability to create additional salary-cap space by finding a new home via trade for swingman Rodney Carney and then make a sufficiently rich offer to Brand.
 
Dealing away Carney — with Memphis and Minnesota quickly emerging as
possible destinations — would shed nearly $1.7 million from the
Sixers’ payroll next season as long as the trade doesn’t require new GM
Ed Stefanski to take any salary back.
 
 
 
But the Clippers
are in the playoff conversation. So is Portland, a .500 team last
season without Greg Oden playing a game. Denver remains a player, as
does a suddenly improved Minnesota team. Only Oklahoma City,
Sacramento, Memphis and Golden State appear destined to be on the
outside looking in.
 
 
 
 
Just kidding, I think the pups might have a little something to say
next year. It would help if Rashad McCants could shake the title of
‘Can’t Get Right’; always looking like he is staring at a circus
mirror. Just teasing, but McCants is very important to the Timberwolves
future potential.
 
 
 
 
Bob Ociepka, a Wolves’ assistant for the past two years, will join
Vinny Del Negro’s Chicago Bulls staff for the 2008-09 NBA season. Also
heading to Chicago is Bernie Bickerstaff, father of Minnesota’s J.B.
Bickerstaff.
 
Minnesota’s coaching staff and players won’t be the only ones in town to miss Ociepka, who was a regular and colorful contributor to timberwolves.com. Never turning down an interview, Ociepka frequently hooked us up with scouting reports like these: (Bucks and Warriors) and filled us with information based on his over 30 years of coaching experience. 
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