Minnesota Timberwolves Roundup: Taj Gibson’s workouts, KG sues accountant

As the Minnesota Timberwolves gear up for the opening of training camp later this month, one current and one former Wolves big man have each been in the news of late.

Minnesota Timberwolves fans: we’re almost there.

Media day is merely weeks away. Then, training camp. And then, preseason play.

In the meantime, we have to rely on predictions, over-unders, and off-the-court news to get us through. And it’s the former of the three that we’ll be covering today.

First, let’s talk about Taj Gibson. Tom Thibodeau brought Gibson to Minnesota on a two-year deal last summer, bringing yet another piece of his successful Chicago Bulls teams up I-94 to the Twin Cities.

Gibson was coming off of a solid season that saw him traded from the Bulls to the Oklahoma City Thunder, where he started in the playoffs for Russell Westbrook‘s squad that lost to the Houston Rockets in five games.

After joining the Wolves prior to the 2017-18 season, Gibson started all 82 games and averaged a career-high 33.2 minutes per game. He also posted his second-highest scoring total at 12.2 points per game and 7.1 rebounds per contest, which was Gibson’s highest average since his rookie year.

Don’t overlook his efficiency, either: Gibson shot 57.7 percent from the field, easily besting his previous individual mark of 52.6 percent in 2015-16.

And it sure looks like Gibson is preparing to put up another hefty minutes total in 2018-19.

Gibson knows what’s about to go down. While the Wolves replaced Nemanja Bjelica with Anthony Tolliver and drafted forward Keita Bates-Diop in the second round of this year’s draft, neither newcomer figures to eat too much into Taj’s minutes.

Elsewhere, Kevin Garnett‘s lawsuit against his former accountant and that accountant’s firm has gone public.

The suit alleges that more than $77 million dollars was stolen from Garnett by Kentucky-based accountant Michael Wertheim and Welenken CPAs. The legal action was taken up first in Hennepin County District Court in Minnesota and has since been moved to the U.S. District Court in Minneapolis.

Also, there’s a connection between the firm and the man sentenced to four years in prison for stealing from Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs, so there are definitely multiple layers to the situation.

At any rate, who’s ready for some basketball? The end of September can’t get here fast enough…