Late Wednesday night after the Timberwolves’ season-ending romp over New Orleans, after everybody but the janitors and sportswriters had gone home, the team announced it relieved Sam Mitchell of his interim head-coaching duties and will initiate a search to hire both a new coach and leader of its basketball operations.
In reality, that search probably has been going on discretely for weeks.
That’s the only logical way to explain why the team has hired executive search firm Korn Ferry to do owner Glen Taylor’s legwork and manage a “comprehensive search” that’s aiming high — former Chicago coach Tom Thibodeau the hunt’s big game — at signing quite possibly one man for both jobs by the NBA’s May draft camp.