Bill Bayno to be hired as Timberwolves assistant coach for Rick Adelman

Jerry Zgoda of the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports:

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Rick Adelman hasn’t been introduced yet as Wolves coach, but his staff is starting to take shape:

According to league sources, Portland assistant coach Bill Bayno is expected to join a staff that also could include  Adelman’s son R.J., Jack Sikma and T.R. Dunn from Adelman’s Houston staff.

Bayno, 49, is a former UNLV and Loyola Marymount head coach who also was a longtime assistant for John Calipari at UMass.

Bayno worked as a graduate assistant under P.J. Carlesimo at Seton Hall and Larry Brown at Kansas early in his career.  He has worked two stints with the Blazers as a scout, player personnel coach and assistant coach and also has knocked around the American Basketball Association, the Continental Basketball Association and a league in the Philippines.

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