CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Minnesota Timberwolves will be at Quicken Loans Arena Monday. Someone will be missing for that game with the Cavaliers.
That someone is Flip Saunders, the former Cuyahoga Heights star and Timberwolves coach and executive. On October 25, Saunders died of Hodgkin's lymphoma at the age of 60.
I first saw Saunders in the early 1970s. He was a star at Cuyahoga Heights High. My brother Tom Pluto was a young coach at Cleveland Central Catholic.
I don't know the score of the game, but Saunders' team won big. Very big.