Some highlights from today's media day over at Target Center:
Nikola Pekovic: "I just hope everyone stays healthy. That's what we need." Amen.
Kevin Love had many variations on the same theme, which was, to paraphrase: nobody wants to talk about last year, and this is another year. He couldn't not have been more clear about that. Thank you for the Twitter suggestions to ask him about knuckle pushups, but we're pretty sure that would have resulted in a direct punch to our face -- and therefore possibly another hand injury for Love.
Head coach Rick Adelman said it took him a while to make a final decision on coming back this season, but he said it was looking that way for most of the summer. If the season started today, he isn't sure who his starting small forward would be. The rest, naturally: Ricky Rubio, Kevin Martin, Love and Pekovic.
*Derrick Williams looks noticeably slimmer, down to 235 pounds after playing at about 250 last season. He played bigger last year while trying to defend power forwards; this year, with Chase Budinger potentially out for a while with a knee problem, he could be in the mix for minutes at small forward.
*Quote of the day from Alexey Shved, when asked about his weight and body: "The weight is the same, but I make more muscles."
*Ricky Rubio appears to be wearing his hair a little differently, which is always a subject for discussion. Also, he opened up his presser with, "Hi everyone." Think about that as you look at his picture since it was snapped at around that time.
