The Timberwolves will meet with Chauncey Billups sometime in the near future to discuss their open president of basketball operations position, sources tell Shams Charania and Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic (Twitter link).
A longtime NBA guard who spent two seasons of his playing career in Minnesota, Billups has long been rumored to be a potential target for the Timberwolves, even before Tom Thibodeau was dismissed from his president of basketball operations role by the team.
Billups lacks front office experience, but Minnesota isn’t the only team that views him as a potential decision-maker for an NBA franchise — he previously interviewed for top jobs with the Cavaliers and Hawks.
Recently, Marc Stein of The New York Times wrote that there was some skepticism about owner Glen Taylor‘s ability to make Billups an offer attractive enough to lure him away from his analyst job at ESPN. However, it appears the two sides will at least meet to discuss the idea.
Billups is hardly the only candidate being considered by the Timberwolves as they seek out a new head of basketball operations. Reports earlier this week indicated that Minnesota is also in the process of securing interviews with Clippers GM Michael Winger, Rockets executive VP of basketball operations Gersson Rosas, and Nuggets assistant GM Calvin Booth.
According to Charania and Krawczynski (via Twitter), the Wolves have been finalizing interview dates with those candidates.
I knew previous reports would be too good to be true.
CB shud get a group of investors and buy the team, make KG player dev coach
Chauncy too classy to work for Lakers.
Love Chauncey, but we need someone with front office experience. No more guys like Thibs or (going back a bit) McHale. Though Kahn had front office experience and all that got us was Johnny Flynn and Wes Johnson (amongst other failures attributable to Wrath of Kahn) So much for Glen not going for his guys lol. At least Taylor won’t be taking any bad advice from David Stern on this one?
…another angle is, Taylor had his guy, and his name was Flip.
Brutal.