Rick Adelman stressed the importance of adding veteran talent to the Timberwolves’ young core.

Adelman believes the lure of playing with Ricky Rubio and Kevin Love could be enough to attract top-level free agents to Minnesota.

"There's not a player I've talked to or any person around the league who was not impressed with Ricky," Adelman said. "It's the vibe he puts out. Players love to get the ball when they're supposed to, and he does that. And who would believe Kevin scores and rebounds the way he does? Because of those two guys, it makes us attractive. I don't see any reason anybody would not want to play with them."

The Wolves will be at least $11 million under the salary cap this summer.

"There are a couple of (player) contracts that have some flexibility built into them," general manager David Kahn said. "We have options. If we want to have cap room, we can have room. No question about it."

Darko Milicic, due $10.8 million over the final two years of his contract, is a likely amnesty candidate.

After previously stating that the Wolves didn't need to make "wholesale" changes, David Kahn plans to be aggressive this offseason.

Kevin Love and Ricky Rubio are the two franchise 'cornerstones', but the remainder of the roster doesn't appear to be untouchable.

Nikola Pekovic will undergo surgery on May 15th to remove bone spurs from his right ankle.

Pekovic has had a breakout 11-12 season for Minnesota.

David Kahn will return for the 12-13 season as Minnesota's general manager.

Glen Taylor said that the Wolves will pick up their team option on Kahn's contract.

Kahn signed a three-year deal in 2009 that included two additional seasons as team options.

Kevin Love will miss the final two games of the regular season as he recovers from a concussion.

Love has not played since April 11th when he suffered a concussion and strained neck.

Love had passed all of his concussion tests and cleared to play, but Minnesota chose not to risk further injury.

Doc Rivers is the coach NBA players most want to play for, Sports Illustrated revealed Wednesday.

The magazine polled 134 players, asking them “Which coach would you like to play for the most?” and 22 percent responded Rivers.

Mike D’Antoni came in second with 21 percent.

Gregg Popovich finished third with 16 percent, followed by Rick Carlisle at 6 percent and Rick Adelman at 5 percent.

Kevin Love spent Wednesday night in a Denver hospital as a precautionary measure after taking an elbow to the head from JaVale McGee.

The Wolves are calling the injury a mild concussion and neck strain.

An NBA-hired neurologist must be consulted before Love is cleared to play.

Ricky Rubio is back in Minnesota after spending more than two weeks in Colorado following his knee surgery to repair two torn ligaments.

Rubio isn't sure if he'll be ready for the start of training camp.

"I don’t if it will be training camp, don’t know when I’ll come back," said Rubio. "The most important thing is to make sure when I come back it's 100 percent. I don’t know if it's training camp, I don’t know if it's first week, second week (of regular season). I don’t want to put a date. It depends how my knee feels."

Rubio was asked if he is worried about coming back a different player.

"Of course, you always think in my mind what can happen, especially the first couple days after surgery when you can't move your knee. You just think about it, think about if you can come back. You just have to be strong and do your best to come back even harder. I love basketball. I love playing basketball. I'm going to do my best.

Rubio anticipates a recovery timeline of six to nine months.

"The doctor said that he put nine months and everything that we take more is good. I don't know, it depends on the knee.  Everybody has knee injuries, not everybody answers the same surgery the same thing. I have four weeks now to take off these crutches that I start hating them. We will see."