If it was Sunday morning in the Saunders household and the phone was ringing at 6 a.m., it was usually only one person doing the calling: Sid Hartman.
"He was just looking for the scoop at the house," Timberwolves coach Ryan Saunders said with a laugh Monday. "He didn't care who was on the other line. He was going to find a way to get that scoop."
Saunders has fond memories of the relationships he and his late father Flip had with Hartman, the decades-long Star Tribune columnist who died Sunday at 100.
Saunders said his first memory of meeting Hartman came when he was 9 just after the Timberwolves had hired Flip.