What Timberwolves followers have learned over the past three weeks:
- Incoming owners Mark Lore and Alex Rodriguez will swing for the fences.
They just watched their team improve from 23 to 46 victories, win a play-in game and test an excellent Memphis team in the playoffs. They easily could have kept acting President of Basketball Operations Sachin Gupta in place.
Instead, they hired Tim Connelly, a highly-thought-of executive from the Denver Nuggets, to oversee Gupta, giving him $40 million and a small equity stake in the team.
Aggressive actions and spending don't guarantee success, but aggressiveness, for a franchise that used to hire anybody who knew how to smile and slap your back, is a welcome change.