There will be a familiar face coaching for the Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday for Jerry Sloan's 20th anniversary game.
The Timberwolves fired Randy Wittman on Monday and replaced him with Kevin McHale, the team's vice president of Basketball operations. It was the 223rd coaching change around the NBA since Sloan took over for Frank Layden on Dec. 9, 1988. Carlos Boozer, meanwhile, said at Monday's practice that he isn't likely to play Tuesday. Boozer will wait to return from the strained left quadriceps tendon that has kept him out for 10 games until Thursday at the earliest.
Brevin Knight also was set to practice Monday after being released from the hospital Sunday after remaining overnight for observation.
Knight was hit in the windpipe by a Goran Dragic elbow and could barely talk Monday.
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