From the moment David Kahn took over as president of basketball operations for the Timberwolves, he has focused on bringing an up-tempo style of play to Minnesota. He spoke of a free-wheeling, open-floored, "beautiful game" version of basketball that would make players want to come to frigid, small-market Minnesota and fans look forward to shelling out money to watch such an entertaining style of basketball. With all that in mind, he hired Kurt Rambis, who played for the "Showtime" Lakers of the 1980s, to bring that style to Minnesota. When Rambis' teams lost 132 games in two seasons and didn't play the wide-open style that Kahn envisioned, he fired the coach and began looking for a coach to instill "a very up-tempo, fast-breaking style on both ends of the floor." Read more: http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/6767005/david-kahn-minnesota-timberwolves-wants-tempo-dna-coach
