Here's some this and that left in my notebook from Wednesday's news conference that introduced Rick Adelman as the next Timberwolves coach:
* Here's the story for Thursday's paper that touches on a variety of things, including the relationship between Adelman and Kahn that has been a talking point since that Yahoo!Sports column a few weeks back.
* The contract is worth a bit more than $20 million for four years. Each side has an option for the final season so if both Adelman and the team agree, they could end it after three years. But if he wants the entire $20M, it's his.
Asked if the money was what convinced him to take the job, he said, "I think anybody who's working, money is a factor for sure. But I would not say it was the tipping point."
* First priority: Completing the coaching staff.
Two of Adelman's sons – R.J., who was on his staff in Houston, and David, who just quit his job coaching a Portland, Ore., area high school team – are coming with him.
Former UNLV head coach and former Trail Blazers Bill Bayno will be hired.
Jack Sikma and T.R. Dunn – two of his assistants in Houston – likely will be hired but that might not be finalized until it looks like a labor deal is close.
As for first assistant, Adelman would love to get Elston Turner, who coordinated the defense for him in Houston, back but Turner accepted a job in Phoenix earlier this summer and don't expect the Suns to let him go. Not an impossible negotiation, mind you, but not likely.
Terry Porter, one of the seven candidates interviewed for the head job, is a possibility, too, because of his relationship with both Adelman and Kahn. (He played for Adelman in Portland on those two NBA finals teams.)
* Adelman talked a lot Wednesday about trust and how he likes to surround himself with people he's known a long time and trusts.
The Bayno hire is interesting because the two don't have a relationship. Bayno knows Kahn and Wolves scout Pete Philo and the hire came about that way, although obviously Adelman did his research and approved it.
Why would Adelman accept management's suggestion this time when the big reason he didn't return to Houston is the Rockets GM wanted him to hire D League coach Chris Finch?
Perhaps as simple as: You can interpret Finch as being groomed to be a successor -- the Flip Saunders to Bill Blair or Randy Wittman to Dwane Casey -- while Bayno doesn't have any such head-coach aspirations.
My hunch is that, with Bayno's personal history with alcoholism and a form of an obsessive/compulsive disorder, he's being brought in partly to work with Michael Beasley off the court.
* Adelman's sons each come with a history of drunken driving.
David has been arrested twice on DUI charges since 2005, most recently in February 2009 but kept coaching at Lincoln High School.
