{"id":47240,"date":"2014-06-05T09:58:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T14:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=47240"},"modified":"2014-06-06T16:40:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T21:40:02","slug":"saunders-to-coach-t-wolves-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=47240","title":{"rendered":"Saunders To Coach T-Wolves, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/saundersflip.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18056\" alt=\"saundersflipTHUMB\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/saundersflip.jpg\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a>\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; When Flip Saunders officially took over as coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday, he assumed a unique position of power in the NBA.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saunders is now the team president, the head coach and a part-owner in Minnesota. The status gives him as much influence on his team as any one person in the league, and he says he&#8217;s ready to handle it.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Clippers&#8217; Doc Rivers, the Pistons&#8217; Stan Van Gundy and the Spurs&#8217; Gregg Popovich wield both front office and coaching authority. Now Saunders joins that list.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor says it&#8217;s not his preferred setup. And he is leaving open the option that Saunders will move back into the front office exclusively in the near future.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But both say it was the best option available.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Two people with knowledge of the decision tell The Associated Press that Flip Saunders is moving out of the front office to coach the Minnesota Timberwolves.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saunders was hired last season as president of basketball operations. After the team&#8217;s search to replace the retired Rick Adelman was snagged by Kevin Love&#8217;s uncertain future in Minnesota, it was determined that Saunders should step in to coach the team. The people requested anonymity Thursday because the team has not officially announced the move.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saunders coached the team from 1995-2005. He has taken the Timberwolves to the only eight playoff appearances in franchise history, including the Western Conference finals in 2004.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saunders will continue to work with GM Milt Newton in the front office while handling coaching duties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; When Flip Saunders officially took over as coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday, he assumed a unique position of power in the NBA. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saunders is now the team president, the head coach and a part-owner in Minnesota. The status gives him as much influence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47240","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=47240"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47396,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47240\/revisions\/47396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}