MINNEAPOLISNEW YORKNEW YORK — Rick Adelman coached four teams in his first two decades in the NBA, each time taking a year off before starting his next journey.
He didn’t wait nearly as long to take over perhaps his most challenging job yet — the Minnesota Timberwolves are bringing Adelman in to try to turn around one of the NBA’s most downtrodden franchises.
The team and Adelman, 65, agreed on terms and a contract is expected to be signed soon.
Adelman replaces Kurt Rambis, who lasted just two seasons.
“Houston, we have a coach,” all-star forward Kevin Love tweeted Monday.
Adelman is 945-616 in 20 seasons as a head coach of the Trail Blazers, Kings, Warriors and Rockets. He parted ways with Houston in April and the Rockets brought in former Timberwolves executive and coach Kevin McHale to replace him.
The Timberwolves have won just 32 games over president of basketball operations David Kahn’s first two seasons, including an NBA-worst 17-65 record last year.
NBA fines Jordan $100,000Michael Jordan has been fined by the NBA for making comments about the league’s ongoing collective bargaining process.
NBA spokesman Tim Frank confirmed the penalty for the Charlotte Bobcats owner, but said the league doesn’t comment on the total. reported the fine was $100,000.
In an interview last month with Australia’s Herald Sun, Jordan said the NBA’s current model was “broken” and called for revenue sharing for small-market teams such as his Bobcats and the Bucks, whom Australian Andrew Bogut plays for. The Hall of Famer added he knows “owners are not going to move off what we feel is very necessary for us to get a deal in place where we can coexist as partners.”
The NBA prohibits owners from speaking publicly about the labor situation.
NBA, players go back at itA pivotal stretch in the NBA lockout begins today, when full bargaining committees return to the table.
That could move players and owners closer to a new labor deal, but it also could send things in the wrong direction with time running down if more voices in the room leads to discord. The process toward getting a new collective bargaining agreement seems to have gotten back on track after three meetings in the past two weeks between top negotiators from each side.
They decided their full committees have to return before they can go any further, so the owners’ labor relations committee and the union’s executive committee were told to come to New York for a session today, and perhaps even Wednesday.
