11 Minnesota Timberwolves

Mark Bechtel

October 24, 2005

Dwane Casey hopes what happened in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas. In August, Casey, the Timberwolves' new coach, held a voluntary camp in Sin City, and most of the team showed up. (Like most Vegas trips, it was costly; the NBA fined the team a reported $200,000 for holding an unauthorized workout.) Owner Glen Taylor went too, and everybody got along swimmingly, which wasn't always the case last season, when Minnesota missed the playoffs a year after reaching the conference finals.