The Minnesota Timberwolves continued their preseason campaign against the Philadelphia 76ers at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa.
Interestingly, it is not the first time Timberwolves coach Chris Finch and 76ers coach, and native-Iowan, Nick Nurse have coached against each other in this building. The two faced off in the 2011 D-League championship where Finch was the coach of the Rio Grande Valley Vipers and Nurse was the coach of the Iowa Energy, which has since been renamed the Iowa Wolves.
Finch spoke pregame about that matchup over a decade ago, “Got my a** beat.