Heads 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. Less than 18 hours after Ryan Saunders was fired as Timberwolves coach, the longtime coaching friends were side by side in Milwaukee for an introductory news conference that took many by surprise.
Rosas’ relatively young tenure as Wolves president of basketball operations has been defined by taking big swings, and in some ways, this may have been the biggest one yet. He plucked Finch off Nick Nurse’s staff in Toronto — the first time an assistant coach has been hired to take over another team midseason since 2009 — and received plenty of blowback for how it all went down.
