Sam Mitchell

If you’re a Timberwolves fan, you have to be excited about the team’s future. You have to believe that next year will be the year this core breaks through and makes a legitimate run at the playoffs. If not, they aren’t far from it. Given all the franchise has gone through lately, namely with the [...]

Kevin Garnett has no qualms with Minnesota Timberwolves interim head coach Sam Mitchell. He may be in the minority. Still, what the 39-year-old forward is saying matters. The Timberwolves essentially employ him as a player coach—that powerful voice and steadying presence who commands respect in the locker room and the ears of young stars. What [...]

Kevin Martin probably hasn’t played his last game for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Then again, he just may have. Martin registered his third straight “Did Not Play” in Monday night’s loss to the San Antonio Spurs, and although he’s healthy, he shouldn’t expect to see more playing time—or any playing time—in the future, per Jerry Zgoda [...]

Sam Mitchell, head coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves, has something he needs to get off his chest. His players need bigger chests. And biceps. And triceps. They just need to gain weight in general. The Timberwolves, henceforth referred to as the Timberpups, are one of the NBA’s early feel-good stories. With so many projects on [...]

July 13th, 2008 – Dr. Anklesnap I’m not sure if it is because the franchise is the only one not located in the USA, or if it is because people consider the Toronto Raptors to still be in some sort of post-Vince Carter rebuilding era; but it’s time to WAKE UP people. Stop sleeping on [...]

April 24th, 2008 – Dr. Dime As the 2006-07 NBA season drew to a close, Sam Mitchell defied all the odds signing his second NBA head-coaching contract with the Toronto Raptors. Why was this signing so improbable? Let’s take a look at Sam’s last three seasons with the Raptors. In 2005-06 Mitchell was voted by [...]