Daily News | How Chris Finch’s Pennsylvania roots led him to coaching the Minnesota Timberwolves
MINNEAPOLIS — As a child, Chris Finch would travel from Reading to South Philly on Sunday afternoons to watch his beloved 76ers play at the Spectrum. He sat in The Palestra stands for Big 5 triple-headers with his best friend, whose father was a La Salle graduate. He once hated Kevin McHale — creating some hilarious banter when McHale hired him as an assistant with the Houston Rockets — and still loves the Eagles.
“That really built the foundation for my love of the game, and my desire to want to coach,” Finch said in a phone conversation with The Inquirer last week."… All the things that make that part of the country so unique, that’s never going to leave me.” Finch first vocalized his interest in coaching to a Franklin & Marshall assistant while on a bus trip to a game, and received the validation that “kind of gave me the freedom to be able to pursue it.” He initially went overseas to play for the Sheffield Sharks of the British Basketball League, but at age 27 was offered a coaching position with the team.
Those lessons were also applicable while Finch was head coach of the G League’s Rio Grande Valley Vipers, because rosters constantly changed as top players were called up to the NBA and signed, or prospects from the parent club were sent down to develop. Finch was the league’s Coach of the Year in 2010, leading the Vipers to the championship while mastering a modern style of pace-and-space offense that shot a barrage of three-pointers.
The Timberwolves were one of the NBA’s feel-good stories last season, beating the Los Angeles Clippers in the play-in tournament before falling in an entertaining first-round series against the second-seeded Memphis Grizzlies. This season, however, has required the Timberwolves to “reinvent themselves several times,” prompting Finch to again lean into the flexibility he developed throughout his career.
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