"Things seem to take a lot of extra time when Minnesota Timberwolves president of basketball operations David Kahn is involved.

It's taken an eternity (and countless visits to Spain) for him to convince Ricky Rubio(notes) to come to the NBA. It took forever for him to finally dismiss head coach Kurt Rambis this offseason. And now the naming of a new coach is taking some time.

It had been reported earlier this week by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that a new coach could be named this week since some candidates were expecting to get the news before week's end, but now the paper is reporting that whoever Kahn is planning on hiring won't be announced till next week "at least.""