ended up with a 20 and 62 record for the season. Lattner had 16.8 ppg and 8.6rpg to top the Timberwolves in both catigories. Isiah Rider was chosen on the NBA All-Rookiefirst team. Isiah Rider at the all-star weekend also won the Slam-Dunk contest. The Timberwolves despite their great fan support were almost sold to a group of investersthat would have moved the team to New Orleans. The NBA Board of Goveners vetoed the salehowever. Another ownership group emerged promising to keep the team in Minneapolis. Theyalso replaced Sidny Lowe for Bill Blair.(5) In 1994 the Timberwolves set an NBA record by lossing at least sixty games for fourconsecutive season. The team ended up in last place amoung the Midwest division. TheTimberwolves were the only team to grab fewer than 3,000 rebounds over the whole season.(6) At the end of the season former Boston Celtics star Kevin McHale took over as the MinnesotaTimberwolves vice president of baskeball operations, replasing retiring general maneger JackMcClosky. McHale went to work quickly and made a very bold decision by selectinghigh-school phenom Kevin Garnett with the fifth overall pick in the draft.(6) The 1995-96 season was another struggling season for the Timberwolves according to mostpeople, but the Timberwolves ended there streek of losing over sixty games per season. TheTimberwolves had a record of 26 wins and 56 loses. Progress this year came in spirts and formany reasons. One improvement in December Bill Blair was replased by Phil Flip Saunders. LeFevre 5Saunders was a college teamate of Kevin McHale at U of Minnesota,and later he was a assistantcoach at the U of Minnesota....
