{"id":230795,"date":"2009-05-16T06:02:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T06:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2009\/05\/16\/wolves-updates-516-v15-2144\/"},"modified":"2009-05-16T06:02:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T06:02:04","slug":"wolves-updates-516-v15-2144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-updates-516-v15-2144\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves Updates 5\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Wolves likely would pair Penn — a salary-cap expert who has tutored under Jerry West, Kevin Pritchard and Chuck Daly in a 10-year NBA management career with Memphis and the Trail Blazers — with assistant general manager Fred Hoiberg as his top personnel evaluator.<\/em> Penn and former Indiana Pacers General Manager David Kahn are believed to be the only outside candidates both interviewed and still interested in the job.<\/em><\/div>\n “It’d be huge,” Love said, kidding that he wished he had the appropriate incentives in his contract, should this be the Wolves’ year to get the No. 1 pick.<\/em><\/div>\n
ESPN.com, citing one unidentified league source Friday, said Penn is mulling an offer from the Wolves and is expected to accept.<\/em><\/p>\n
Love is hoping his presence will bring some luck to a franchise that has been short in that department since entering the league 20 years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n
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