{"id":18055,"date":"2013-05-02T15:29:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T20:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=18055"},"modified":"2013-05-03T15:25:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T20:25:14","slug":"flip-saunders-back-with-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=18055","title":{"rendered":"Flip Saunders Back With &#8216;Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SaunderFlip.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18070\" title=\"SaunderFlip\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SaunderFlip-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SaunderFlip-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SaunderFlip-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/SaunderFlip.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Update&#8230;\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; The Minnesota Timberwolves have named Flip Saunders as the team&#8217;s new president of basketball operations.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The team announced the hire on Friday. Saunders is also getting a small piece of the ownership pie as part of the deal he signed to replace David Kahn.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s a welcome back for Saunders, who coached the Timberwolves from 1995-2005. He&#8217;s the only head coach to lead the Timberwolves to the playoffs since the franchise&#8217;s inception in 1989. The Wolves made eight straight playoff appearances under Saunders, including a run to the Western Conference finals in 2004.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saunders was fired the following season, but remained in close contact with Wolves owner Glen Taylor even as he took head coaching jobs in Detroit and Washington. He spent this season as an analyst for ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Previously&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP May 2, 2013) &#8211; David Kahn is out as president of basketball operations for the Minnesota Timberwolves and Flip Saunders is coming in.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Timberwolves announced on Thursday that owner Glen Taylor has decided not to pick up the option for next season on Kahn&#8217;s contract. Three people with knowledge of the situation tell The Associated Press that Taylor is putting the finishing touches on a deal to hire Saunders as Kahn&#8217;s replacement. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because an official announcement has not been made.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kahn spent four seasons leading the Timberwolves. He helped bring point guard Ricky Rubio and coach Rick Adelman to Minnesota, but his teams went 89-223 and missed the playoffs in all four of his seasons.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saunders coached the Wolves from 1995-2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Update&#8230;\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; The Minnesota Timberwolves have named Flip Saunders as the team&#8217;s new president of basketball operations. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The team announced the hire on Friday. Saunders is also getting a small piece of the ownership pie as part of the deal he signed to replace David Kahn. \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18055"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18071,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055\/revisions\/18071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}