Adelman expected to return, Wolves plan on resigning Pek

Adelman returning was supposedly a big deal for SF FA target Chase Budinger and Pekovic is one of the more lusted after FAs...no homo.

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Every indication points to Rick Adelman returning as coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves, president Flip Saunders said, apparently resolving one of the many prominent issues in front of Saunders early in his tenure as head of basketball operations.

...“We’ve talked every day, every other day,” Saunders said during a break at the adidas Eurocamp. “He talks about his staff, he talks about players. We were talking the other day about offenses that I ran, offenses that he ran. Talking just the basketball talk. The talks that we’ve had leads me to believe that he’s going to be back.

...Meanwhile, Saunders is scouting in preparation of two first-round picks in the June 27 draft, Nos. 9 and 26, looking to add size on the front line and shooting, trying to resolve a glut of point guards, and awaiting decisions on the futures of Nikola Pekovic and Andrei Kirilenko. Pekovic becomes a restricted free agent July 1 – “We plan on signing him,” Saunders said – while Kirilenko has to decide days before that whether to stay in his contract or return to free agency.

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Seeming cheap and letting Pekovic go is certainly not a good way to convince Love to stay long term. I just don't see Pekovic being very attainable. People had visions of stealing Marc Gasol and Roy Hibbert and even DeAndre Jordan, but it didn't happen.