Dwane Casey is one of three black men who have coached the Timberwolves.
He owns the third-best winning percentage of the 13 Wolves head coaches in franchise history.
From 2005 to ’07, he lived in downtown Minneapolis. Now coaching the Pistons, Casey was at his home in Detroit when he first saw video of Derek Chauvin kneeling on the neck of George Floyd.
“I knew it was going to be something big,” Casey said in a phone conversation this week. “It was a public lynching. Even with the camera rolling, he had a look on his face that made my stomach turn.