Gersson Rosas rolled his head back and chuckled after hearing the question: How did being Latino affect his ability to land jobs in basketball?
It was as if all those slights had flashed in his mind at that instant.
“Sometimes it doesn’t make sense,” Rosas said. “Sometimes you’d get, ‘You’re overqualified.’ The response to what happened is not very transparent, but that’s life. There’s a lot of things that happen that you don’t understand or have control over. You can get bitter and get upset and get frustrated or you can get better.”
The Timberwolves president, hired less than two months ago, said he wouldn’t be where he is if he had chosen the former path.