Timberwolves head coach Chris Finch is a basketball junkie and an all-around sports fan. Those two facts might make you think he is devouring what has been an entertaining NBA Finals series between the Thunder and Pacers.
“I’m going to tell on myself here. I haven’t watched a single minute of it,” Finch said of the finals. “It’s very hard to watch the round after you are eliminated. You are still emotionally involved.”
Ask a Vikings fan if they watched the Super Bowl after any number of NFC title game losses, and they might tell you the same thing.
Finch said he is aware OKC is up 3-2 and added that he will go back and watch the series sometime this summer, but the fact that he was not watching in real-time does reveal just how much the Western Conference finals loss to the Thunder still stings — something I talked about on Wednesday’s Daily Delivery podcast.
“There’s no doubt about it, we got beat by the better team,” Finch said, specifically mentioning the Wolves’ Game 5 blowout loss as a frustrating moment. “Maybe going back into that series, like anything else you’d like to do things differently and maybe that’s where the lack of peace comes from.”
Here are nine other things you should know today, including several more from Finch’s radio appearance: