According to Timberwolves, Ryan Saunders has fired the head coach ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, and will appoint Chris Finch as their new head coach according to Chris Raptors’ assistant coach The Athletics’s Shams Charania. The team later confirmed the development.
Saunders has been with the Timberwolves as an assistant since 2014 before being appointed head coach in 2019. Prior to that, he was an assistant to the Wizards from 2009 to 2014.
Finch joined the Raptors in December, but before that he was among the Pelicans, Nuggets, Rockets and the D-League, where he won Coach of the Year in 2010.
The Timberwolves apparently requested an interview with Finch and the Raptors agree.
The Timberwolves have lost 24 of their last 31 games and at 7–24 the worst record in the NBA.