--Ryan Gomes joined Wolves forward Corey Brewer on the team's promotional summer caravan tour that hit the road in Mankato, Minn., owner Glen Taylor's home base. Gomes later agreed to a five-year, $20 million contract extension.
The team asked Gomes, a 6-7 forward, after last season if he would participate in the summer caravan and he agreed, as long as he wasn't a member of another team by then. "I'm a community guy, so I said yes," Gomes said by telephone from Mankato. "I don't know where I'm going to be yet. I made a commitment and stuck with it."
Looks as if it paid off.
--Wolves coach Randy Wittman is expected to add Houston Rockets vice president of player personnel Dean Cooper as an assistant coach to replace Bob Ociepka, who accepted a job on Vinny Del Negro's Bulls coaching staff in Ociepka's hometown of Chicago. Cooper has been with the Rockets for nine seasons as a video coordinator, assistant coach, scout and last season was vice president of player personnel.
--Kevin McHale said the Wolves will hold training camp, beginning in late September, in Mankato, Minn., owner Glen Taylor's home base. He also said he'd like to add a combo guard who could serve as a third point guard to Randy Foye and Sebastian Telfair, but said that issue is on the "back burner."
QUOTE TO NOTE: "Maybe we can try to get my little brother be that third guard. He's too young now. But maybe next year, we can get him in the draft." -- Wolves point guard Sebastian Telfair on the prospects of landing his precocious 13-year-old brother, Ethan, a job beside him in the team's backcourt.
