This time, Richardson has found a home for his expiring $9.35 million contract. Heat president Pat Riley wants him to bring scoring punch off the bench, and the team plans to give him significant minutes this season.
This time, he brings back Blount’s expiring $7.96 million salary slot in exchange for Richardson’s $9.35 million expiring contract.
Don’t expect Blount to get a locker stall, much less his Wolves uniform back. Kahn will either save nearly $1.4 million by waiving Blount outright instead of Richardson or use his expiring contract in another trade.
The second part of it is how much team speed do you have? Love and Al don’t run particularly well. Ryan Gomes is a good runner, not a great runner. He’s definitely effective. It’s going to be guys like Corey Brewer coming into their own. Jonny Flynn can certainly push it. Are there going to be enough guys who are going to run with him to make it work?
I heard David Kahn say this that run and gun sort of has a negative connotation to it because it implicates not a lot of though. I don’t think that’s going to be Rambis’ m.o. He is going to be an opportunistic running team. The thing I noticed about Jonny Flynn in (Las) Vegas was that dude can flat out pick and roll game and get to the rim.
He’s going to create easy baskets for our bigs inside by driving and dishing, for perimeter jump shooters by driving and kicking like Chris Paul does with New Orleans. It’s harnessing that ability that Jonny Flynn has, that special ability to break the defense down and get guys around him that can make plays.
Sources close to Krystkowiak tell CBS 2 that coach K is in San Diego awaiting a return to the NBA and was not interested in coaching at the NBADL level. Krystkowiak is thought to be a finalist for an assistant coaching position with the NBA’s Phoenix Suns, and is also close friends with new Minnesota Timberwolves coach Kurt Rambis who has yet to assemble an assistant coaching staff of his own.
Just call him the state’s most famous towel boy (Clayton Wilson excepted, of course).
“Just keeping the peace in there,” Hoiberg said with a smile.
His job in a room filled with water, soda, sports drinks, fresh towels and souvenir flags laid out everywhere for players to sign? “Whatever they need,” he said.
But you have to hand it to new Timberwolves President David Kahn on one count: in the three months since taking over the reigns, Kahn has shown notable aggression in revamping the floundering franchise.
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