As you all suspected, Tom Thibodeau is a trash-talker, a foodie who enjoys long walks around the lake, rocks out at Springsteen concerts and listens to Drake.
“Tom is not the guy you see screaming on the sideline,” longtime friend Mike Opat said. “Well, he is that guy — he is the coach who wants to get the most out of his team. But there’s more to him than that.”
Opat helped get Target Field built. Tom Thibodeau is trying to fill Target Center. The Hennepin County commissioner and the Timberwolves basketball boss would seem to have little in common other than locale, yet to hear them talk about each other is to imagine them in the summer’s most unlikely buddy movie.