Struggling Timberwolves fire head coach CaseyESPN.com news services
Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Dwane Casey was fired Tuesday, ESPN's Ric Bucher reported, halfway into another season mired in mediocrity.
Assistant coach Randy Wittman will take over the head coaching duties.
The Timberwolves are 20-20 and currently in the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference.
Casey was hired by the Timberwolves on June 17, 2005. Longtime coach Flip Saunders was fired during the 2004-05 season and vice president of basketball operations Kevin McHale filled in for the remainder of that season.
Minnesota was 33-49 last year in Casey's first season.
Wittman spent a total of nine seasons with Minnesota, also serving as an assistant coach from 1994-95 to 1998-99. He served as head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers for two seasons, compiling a 62-102 record (.378) from 1999-2001. Prior to his first stint in Minnesota, Wittman spent one season each as an assistant coach with Indiana (1992-93) and Dallas (1993-94).
Ric Bucher joined ESPN in January 1999 as a San Francisco-based senior writer covering professional basketball for ESPN The Magazine, and as an NBA reporter for SportsCenter and NBA 2Night. Bucher also contributes to ESPN.com.
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Maybe KG will go next...