Within a story examining the big-picture implications of the Timberwolves being eliminated from the playoffs following Friday’s lopsided Game 6 loss to San Antonio, Jon Krawczynski of The Athletic states that head coach Chris Finch “will be back for his sixth full season” in 2026/27.
Finch has compiled a 258-193 record (.572 win-loss percentage) in parts of six seasons at the helm in Minnesota. The Timberwolves have posted a winning record and made the playoffs in each of his five full years, including back-to-back trips to the Western Conference finals in 2024 and 2025.
The Wolves had another uneven regular season in 2025/26, winning 49 games for the second straight year and entering the playoffs as the sixth seed. Minnesota upset the third-seeded Nuggets in round one before falling to the No. 2 Spurs in the Western semifinals.
Finch was a longtime assistant before he landed the Wolves’ top coaching job in February 2021. The 56-year-old, who has two years left on his contract, Krawczynski notes, suggested after the team was eliminated that some roster tweaks might be necessary to try and catch up to the defending champion Thunder and the rising Spurs.
“You either gotta be a problem or have a solution,” Finch said. “You have to be built in a way that troubles your opponent with something they don’t have or have something to counter what they do have.”
Krawczynski also confirms that owners Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez are interested in signing president of basketball operations Tim Connelly to a contract extension, and writes that team employees on both the business and basketball sides of the organization were happy Matt Lloyd stayed in his role as general manager. Lloyd was a finalist for the Bulls’ top basketball operations job before they hired Bryson Graham.
Not much he could do because he got beat by a better and deeper team. Face it the west is now controlled by 2 teams OKC and Spurs.
Remember when Davey said the Warriors were gonna “take OKC’s lunch money” in the first round after winning the 9 vs 10 play-in game, only to get stomped by the Suns in the next play-in game, who then went on to get swept by OKC in the first round? And yet he acts incredulous when we question his takes. Maybe he’ll report me for this comment.
Flakey as my grandma’s best biscuits
Davey still live in 2018 when GSW were the today’s OKC. Next few years it will probably be Spurs vs OKC in teh WCF.
Julius Randle hurt the Wolves in the series, not coach Finch. Glad he is staying with Minnesota.
I know! Where did he go after game 1?He could not adjust to Wemby.
Blame Gobert more. Here is a guy who is almost as tall as Wemby but did nothing against Wemby. I seen smaller centers do a better job against wemby.
I think Minn can compete in West. But Rudy & Randle probably should be moved. Donte ain’t gonna give them much next season either.
Ant and McDaniels are cornerstones and Shannon was a contributor in playoffs. Naz was good too. But they need help if they wanna challenge.
Randle has probably played himself off the team. He has been very inconsistent since the trade deadline and was horrible throughout most of the playoffs. He can’t be our number 2 guy. I really hope we resign Ayo. I think if both he and Ant can get healthy and have a full season together they’re going to be fun to watch. Shannon really started to come into his own at the end there. That was fun to watch. Jaden is always a dawg. He ain’t going nowhere. Naz brings a lot off the bench. Is he ready for starter minutes? Maybe. Rudy is the big elephant in the room. He was fantastic in the Denver series. He still is a top defender. His offense is horrible though and he can’t seem to catch a ball to save his life! At this point in his career I don’t think any of those things are going to change. Seems like usually teams have defensive player to hide players who are bad on that end. We need players that can hide Rudy’s offensive liabilities. As far as Finch goes, that one is tough, he has been the most successful coach in our history but there have been many times this season when he’s made very questionable moves with the rotation, calls and not taking timeouts in certain situations. Does he get a pass because of how successful he’s been or is it time to look elsewhere? I have no idea. TC will hopefully resign and make those decisions.