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Article: TWIN CITIES SPORTS OWNERS; glen taylor, minnesota timberwolves; Moving forward, in a return to yesteryear; Last summer's trade to send Kevin Garnett to Boston helped put the Wolves back on what Taylor calls the charted course.(SPORTS)(SERIES: TWIN CITIES SPORTS OWNERS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- August 11, 2008
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Byline: JERRY ZGODA; STAFF WRITER
Once considered the man who would save Minnesota professional sports, Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor now just must convince his lone team's remaining supporters that there is reason to hope.
The former state legislator, a self-made billionaire, rescued the foundering NBA franchise from moving to New Orleans and from its own irrelevance when he bought it in 1994. He soon hired homegrown basketball star Kevin McHale to run his new team, and he bet the future on a precocious teenager named Kevin Garnett.
Fourteen years later, Garnett -- in one dizzying season with the Boston Celtics -- won an NBA title that so ...
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