The Minnesota Timberwolves are reportedly hiring Brooklyn Nets player development coach Pablo Prigioni as an assistant coach, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
New Timberwolves president Gersson Rosas and Prigioni know each other from their days with the Houston Rockets. Prigioni will focus on the offensive end under head coach Ryan Saunders:
Minnesota is hiring Brooklyn’s player development coach Pablo Prigioni as an assistant coach, league sources tell ESPN. Prigioni has common Rockets history with Minnesota President Gersson Rosas. He’ll focus on offensive end under coach Ryan Saunders.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) June 7, 2019
It has been a busy summer for the Timberwolves. After hiring Rosas, Minnesota made Saunders the permanent head coach, hired David Vanterpool away from the Portland Trail Blazers and now have added Prigioni, who played 270 games in the NBA with the New York Knicks, Los Angeles Clippers and Rockets.
The Timberwolves' 2018-19 season was rocky. The team was never able to recover from the Jimmy Butler trade drama. Minnesota fired Tom Thibodeau in January. The Timberwolves went 17-25 under Saunders and missed the playoffs.
Karl-Anthony Towns has established himself as one of the top centers in the NBA, but the rest of the Timberwolves roster is pretty unsteady. Small forward Andrew Wiggins has arguably one of the worst contracts in the league and is an inefficient scorer. Point guard Jeff Teague makes $19 million, but doesn't produce like a player who is earning that much money. Former MVP Derrick Rose is coming off a season in which he averaged 18.0 points per game off the bench, but the Chicago native is an unrestricted free agent this summer and could look to leave the Timberwolves and join a contender since he'll turn 31 next season.
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