The Timberwolves announced the horrible news of president of basketball operations, minority owner, and head coach Flip Saunders passing away on Sunday.
Here’s the preliminary statement from the Timberwolves organization.
It is with extreme sadness that the Minnesota Timberwolves today learned that Phil “Flip” Saunders, who served as the team’s President of Basketball Operations and Head Coach, in addition to being a minority owner of the team, passed away today at age 60.
The organization will follow up with more information as it becomes available.
At this point, there’s nothing else to say other than our deepest condolences to the Saunders family.