Wolves’ Gersson Rosas walks down gauntlet to hire Chris Finch as coach
New York TimesHeads were still spinning when Gersson Rosas sat down in a chair in front of a Timberwolves logoed backdrop with new head coach Chris Finch to his right. “Unfortunately when you’re in the middle of a season, you’re really at the mercy of teams in terms of who can become available and who’s not available,” Rosas said. We didn’t have a group that was able to finish games, and that’s something that became very concerning over the last two weeks, and our inability to be able to execute on that caused us to get to this point.” On Tuesday, after the team’s morning shootaround, Towns said he was all in on Finch but also expressed an urgency to see people of color get more opportunities to be a head coach. Towns is close with Vanterpool, who he believes will be a head coach in this league “very soon.” “There’s a lot of amazing men of color out there that deserve the opportunity to lead a team and to run an organization and have a chance to make their mark in this league, not with a jersey on but with a suit on, and I say that with meaning,” Towns said. “You have a team that’s going through the season in a pandemic where there’s no pause button, there’s no stop button,” Rosas said.
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