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jbcarol

October 25, 2015, 01:36:35 pm
Timberwolves coach Flip Saunders dies

Hodgkin's lymphoma proves fatal for the team executive who was in his second time around as head coach.

QuoteFlip Saunders, the Timberwolves' president of basketball operations who has been sidelined for the coming season as head coach because of cancer, has died, the Timberwolves said Sunday. He was 60.

Saunders is the team's all-time winningest coach, ending with a record of 427 wins and 392 losses. Including his coaching stints at Detroit and Washington, which came between his two Minnesota coaching terms totaling 11 seasons, Saunders' NBA record is 654-592.

Philip Daniel Saunders was born Feb. 23, 1955, in Cleveland. He was an All-America basketball player at Cuyahoga Heights High School in suburban Cleveland and was named Ohio's Class A High School Basketball Player of the Year in `1973.

At the University of Minnesota, he started 101 of his 103 career games. As a senior, he joined Ray Williams, Mychal Thompson, Kevin McHale, and Osborne Lockhart to lead the Gophers to a school-best 24–3 record.

Saunders joined the Timberwolves in May 1995 as general manager, working under former Gophers teammate McHale. In December 1995, Saunders was named head coach.

Saunders directed the Wolves to their first-ever playoff berth in 1996–97, his first full season as an NBA head coach. A year later, he led the Timberwolves to their first-ever winning season. They went on to a franchise-record 50 victories in 1999–2000, which was duplicated in 2001–2002...
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jbcarol

October 25, 2015, 02:11:10 pm #1
John Wall ‏@JohnWall 34m34 minutes ago

The sting of losing another loved one to cancer doesn't get any easier. My thoughts & prayers are...

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ErieHog

October 25, 2015, 11:33:24 pm #2
It'll be a tough year, with Flip dying just as the roster he worked to put together entering play.

I hope they play well for Flip, and kick the crap out of the Lakers on Tuesday.
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DeltaBoy

October 27, 2015, 08:57:52 am #3
Prayers sent. Cancer Sux !!!
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Inhogswetrust

October 27, 2015, 08:06:24 pm #4
Quote from: jbcarol on October 25, 2015, 02:11:10 pm
John Wall ‏@JohnWall 34m34 minutes ago

The sting of losing another loved one to cancer doesn't get any easier. My thoughts & prayers are...

https://instagram.com/p/9RVaduiaMx/

That was a really nice tribute by Wall. Condolences to the Saunders family.
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jbcarol

October 29, 2015, 11:56:39 am #5
Will Brinson ‏@WillBrinson 15h15 hours ago

Awesome tribute to Flip Saunders from Kobe Bryant (and the Lakers)

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Inhogswetrust

October 29, 2015, 05:28:57 pm #6
Quote from: jbcarol on October 29, 2015, 11:56:39 am
Will Brinson ‏@WillBrinson 15h15 hours ago

Awesome tribute to Flip Saunders from Kobe Bryant (and the Lakers)



Not a Kobe fan but that was nice........................
If I'm going to cheer players and coaches in victory, I damn sure ought to be man enough to stand with them in defeat.

"Why some people are so drawn to the irrational is something that has always puzzled me" - James Randi

DeltaBoy

October 30, 2015, 02:21:10 pm #7
Good for Kobe and the Lakers very classy .
If the South should lose, it means that the history of the heroic struggle will be written by the enemy, that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers, will be impressed by all of the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.
-- Major General Patrick Cleburne
The Confederacy had no better soldiers
than the Arkansans--fearless, brave, and oftentimes courageous beyond
prudence. Dickart History of Kershaws Brigade.
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