When Tom Thibodeau came back to the NBA as head coach and president of the Minnesota Timberwolves after a sabbatical year studying teams around the league, he spoke of fresh perspectives and new ideas. But his actions have shown this version of the veteran coach is more of an app update than Thibs 2.0.
The latest example came Sunday when the Wolves made their third significant acquisition of the past 10 days in landing veteran forward Taj Gibson on a two-year, $28 million deal. It launched a thousand "getting the band back together" jokes after Minnesota also traded for Jimmy Butler on draft night.