At 7 a.m. Timberwolves president of basketball operations and head coach Tom Thibodeau — already well into his workday — paused. Days away from training camp, Thibodeau, sitting at a desk filled with computers and a playbook the size of an unabridged dictionary, smiled. Another typically long day? "Everyone comes in pretty early and stays late," he said.
It has been a productive summer for Thibodeau, hired shortly after last season. Since returning from Rio de Janeiro, where he was a U.S. Olympic assistant coach, Thibodeau and his staff have been working with the players in Minneapolis. "They've done a good job," he said.