The Jimmy Butler saga appears to have finally caught up to Tom Thibodeau, now the ex-coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves.
First reported by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the firing itself is not surprising, for a number of reasons that we’ll dive into shortly. But the timing is certainly peculiar.
While the Wolves have been playing up-and-down basketball and largely treading water for a little over a month, Minnesota won two games in under 48 hours and had just wrapped up beating the Los Angeles Lakers handily in a Sunday matinee before Thibodeau was given his pink slip.