"While Yahoo! Sports was reporting that Timberwolves president of basketball operations David Kahn and new coach Rick Adelman didn't get along in the 1980s, when Adelman was coaching the Trail Blazers and Kahn was covering the team as a sportswriter for the Oregonian newspaper in Portland, Wolves CEO Rob Moor was giving Kahn all the credit for Adelman's decision to take the Wolves head coaching job.

"I would give the credit to David [Kahn], who has a relationship with Rick that goes back 16 years or more," Moor said. "Kahn just sort of took his time with Rick. Rick sort of had to make his mind up that he wanted to coach."

Adelman had been offered a contract to continue as the Houston coach after last season but at the time he felt that he had enough of basketball and, at the age of 65, it was time to take it easy.

Moor said during the negotiations with Adelman, he never heard of any hard feelings between Kahn and Adelman, and that he wouldn't have come back for a second interview and kept his interest in the job had that situation existed."