Article: timberwolves 2009-10 season preview; IT'S HIS TIME; The ex-Laker -- and his new bosses -- were sold on a coaching move that neither saw as a gamble.(SPORTS)

Byline: JERRY ZGODA; STAFF WRITER

Timberwolves boss David Kahn last summer interviewed 14 coaching candidates and contemplated the choices for more than a month before he hired Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach Kurt Rambis.

Inevitably, undeniably, he knew about Rambis the way you know about a good melon.

Ripe and ready, Rambis tonight moves to the head coach's seat a walking tapestry woven from where he has been -- and more importantly, who he has been around -- in a 28-year NBA career that has provided six championship rings as a player and assistant coach in sunny southern California.

Once the sweaty, gritty counterbalance on Pat ...

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