Timberwolves coach Flip Saunders hospitalized in cancer treatment

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Change Saunders has become hospitalized regarding tests and also cure using a drawback with the struggle with most cancers, leaving behind the management tasks with all the Minnesota Timberwolves forever to spotlight the health and recovery.

The particular Timberwolves established admin Mike Mitchell requires over because meantime coach regarding Saunders, who is furthermore the particular us president associated with golf ball procedures. Normal supervisor Milt Newton's obligations managing the particular roster will grow with all the lack of the particular 60-year-old Saunders, who had been identified this summer with Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Timberwolves ceo Rob Moor, citing the particular wish for privacy regarding Saunders and also the household, decreased for you to chat particularly regarding Saunders' situation within a media conference Exclusive at staff home office. Within a media discharge, the particular Timberwolves explained Saunders not too long ago experienced troubles from the completed chemotherapy remedies.