CLEVELAND – Saturday evening, not long after arriving in advance of Sunday’s game with the Cleveland Cavaliers, the entire Timberwolves team boarded a bus and went to nearby Cuyahoga Heights High School.
Flip Saunders has been honored many times since his untimely death from Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2015.
But this one, quite literally, may have come closest to home.
Saunders, former Wolves president of basketball operations and head coach, is from Cuyahoga Heights. He was an all-state player and Ohio’s Class A player of the year in 1973 before taking his talents to the University of Minnesota that fall.