Cole Aldrich and his wife, Brittany, were vacationing in early July in Italy when the 6-foot-11 former Kansas center agreed to terms on a three-year, $21.9 million contract with his hometown Minnesota Timberwolves.
“We were thinking, ‘Wow, this might be the first year we have Christmas at the house.’ No Christmas at the house. We’re going to be in Oklahoma City,” Aldrich said with a laugh.
The seven-year NBA veteran’s Timberwolves will be playing the Thunder on Dec. 25 in OKC, meaning the house Cole and Britt bought three years ago to live in during the NBA offseason in Minnesota, will sit still on the holiday.