The Minnesota Timberwolves just lately introduced the next teaching employees updates:
Max Lefevre (Luh-Fev) has been promoted to Assistant Coach. Lefevre has been with the Timberwolves for the reason that 2019-20 season, holding positions of Video Coordinator/Participant Improvement Affiliate and Participant Improvement Coach. Previous to his time with the Timberwolves, Lefevre spent 4 seasons at Texas Tech because the Director of Participant Improvement, serving to the Pink Raiders to the 2019 NCAA Nationwide Championship sport and the Large 12 Convention regular-season championship. He additionally labored as Director of Basketball Operations on the College of Arkansas Little Rock in 2015-16 and as a graduate assistant at Angelo State from 2013-15. Born in France, Lefevre performed school basketball at Avila College additionally positioned in Kansas Metropolis. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Worldwide Enterprise from Avila in 2012 earlier than incomes his Grasp of Training in Sports activities Administration from Angelo State in 2015.
Jeff Newton has been promoted to Assistant Coach. Newton enters his sixth season with the group after serving as High quality Management Coach final season and beforehand as Participant Improvement/Offensive Affiliate with the Timberwolves. Newton was the Head Coach of the Iowa Wolves, the Timberwolves G League affiliate for 2 seasons. Previous to his time with the Timberwolves group, he was with the Houston Rockets for 3 seasons, spending one 12 months every as a personnel scout, assistant video coordinator and basketball operations intern. Newton obtained his begin within the NBA as a basketball operations intern with the then Charlotte Bobcats. A local of Barrington, Rhode Island, Newton graduated from the College of Massachusetts, Amherst with a level in Sports activities Administration.
Chris Hines has been named Assistant Coach/Director of Participant Improvement. Hines enters his first season because the Director of Participant Improvement after spending the final two seasons as a Participant Improvement Coach and two seasons as a Participant Improvement Affiliate. Previous to becoming a member of the Timberwolves teaching employees, Hines was employed as Assistant Head Coach for Minnesota’s G League Affiliate the Iowa Wolves in 2019. He spent three seasons with the Guangdong Southern Tigers as a Director of Participant Improvement starting in 2016. Previous to that, he was with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers as Director of Basketball Operations and Participant Improvement. Hines performed briefly for the Iowa Vitality through the 2014-15 season and performed one season collegiately at Drake College after enjoying for 3 years on the College of Utah, the place he earned his undergraduate diploma in 2012. Hines was just lately Head Coach of the Timberwolves’ entry to NBA 2K25 Summer time League 2024, the place the Wolves went 4-1 this summer time.
Nathan Bubes has been promoted to Assistant Coach/High quality Management Coach. Bubes returns to the Timberwolves after spending the final season as an Assistant Coach with the Iowa Wolves. Previous to his time in Des Moines, he spent two seasons with the Timberwolves as High quality Management Coach. Earlier than arriving in Minnesota, Bubes served because the assistant video coordinator for the New Orleans Pelicans from 2019-2021. Previous to his time with New Orleans, he was the coordinator of technique and analytics for Brigham Younger College males’s basketball program. Bubes had his begin within the NBA with the Los Angeles Lakers when he served because the group’s video intern in 2018.
Moses Ehambe has been named Assistant Coach/Participant Improvement. Ehambe begins his fifth season with the Timberwolves after serving beforehand as a Participant Improvement Affiliate and the Director of Participant Applications. Previous to his time with the Timberwolves, Ehambe spent one season with the Indiana Pacers as a Video/Participant Improvement Assistant. He performed collegiately at Oral Roberts College for 4 years and after going undrafted in 2008, Ehambe spent over a decade enjoying abroad and within the G League, together with being a part of the 2011 D League Champion Iowa Vitality.
James White has been promoted to Participant Improvement Coach. White completed his first season with the Timberwolves teaching employees after spending one season with the Iowa Wolves as an Assistant Coach. Previous to the Wolves, he served as a head coach for 2 seasons in The Basketball League. He entered teaching after a protracted and profitable enjoying profession with stints within the NBA with the San Antonio Spurs, Houston Rockets and New York Knicks, the NBA D League and worldwide leagues in Italy, Russia and Turkey. White was chosen thirty first total within the 2006 NBA Draft by the Portland Path Blazers. A McDonald’s Excessive College All-American, White performed one season on the College of Florida earlier than transferring to the College of Cincinnati.
Joey Dorsey has been added to Timberwolves Head Coach Chris Finch’s teaching employees as a Participant Improvement Assistant. Dorsey joins Minnesota after just lately serving as a volunteer coach for the College of Memphis Males’s Basketball group final season. Dorsey just lately participated within the NBA Teaching Developmental Program led by former NBA Coach Butch Carter. After enjoying collegiately for 4 years at Memphis, Dorsey was drafted by the Portland Path Blazers with the thirty third total choose within the 2008 NBA Draft. He performed 4 seasons within the NBA with the Houston Rockets, Sacramento Kings and Toronto Raptors. In 130 profession video games (26 begins), he totaled 344 factors, 513 rebounds and 55 assists. Dorsey performed over a decade abroad, together with successful the Greek League and EuroLeague championships with Olympiacos.
Cole Fisher has been promoted to Supervisor of Basketball Analytics. Fisher will likely be coming into his seventh season with the Timberwolves after beforehand serving as a Senior Analyst and Basketball Operations & Teaching Analyst for the Wolves. He started his NBA profession as a basketball operations intern for the Toronto Raptors in 2017 and was a basketball analytics intern for the Sacramento Kings in 2018. As well as, Fisher has created an internet utility to assist precisely predict future NBA success for present G League gamers, in addition to different internet purposes.
