Rick Adelman’s NBA coaching career, if you’ll pardon the cliché, is a lesson in adaptability. The longtime NBA coach has moved through a series of disparate outfits in Portland, Golden State, Sacramento, Houston and Minnesota, bringing sound spacing and pointed leadership to each stop, and it’s brought him great acclaim as one of the NBA’s best coaches. Now that acclaim has hit the “all-time”-level, as Adelman became the eighth NBA coach in history to record 1000 career wins. That’s 240 more, many have pointed out, that the Minnesota Timberwolves franchise has to their name – and they’ve been playing for just as long as Rick has been coaching. Adelman achieved the milestone on Sunday after his rebuilding Wolves downed the Detroit Pistons on Saturday night, leading to this celebration on a Minnesota home court that has seen more defeat than conquest in a disappointing 2012-13. Via Pro Basketball Talk , watch:
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