The Minnesota Timberwolves will wear a commemorative patch on their jerseys during the new season honoring team president and coach Flip Saunders. Saunders died Sunday after battling cancer.
A grieving Minnesota Timberwolves team took the practice court on Monday, one day after team president and coach Flip Saunders died after battling cancer. Saunders died at the age of 60 on Sunday, leaving a gaping hole in the organization he was rebuilding from the ground up.
Flip Saunders, the longtime NBA coach who won more than 650 games in nearly two decades and was trying to rebuild the Minnesota Timberwolves as team president, coach and part owner, died Sunday, the team said. He was 60.
Minnesota Timberwolves president and coach Flip Saunders says he is being treated for cancer. Saunders announced on Tuesday that he has been undergoing chemotherapy for Hodgkins lymphoma. He says his doctors are calling it "very treatable and curable."