Criticism of Minnesota Timberwolves vice president Kevin McHale has been building, at least locally, in recent months.
But team owner Glen Taylor said Friday that McHale is still his man.
"I hear what people are saying," Taylor said, "but I don't let that bother me."
Many fans were surprised by last week's multiplayer trade with Boston that brought guard Ricky Davis to Minnesota and sent swingman Wally Szczerbiak to the Celtics.
The popular Szczerbiak is having a career season, the players received beyond Davis weren't big names and the Wolves also gave up a first-round draft pick in the deal -- which has been in short supply in Minnesota for several years. (This one is lottery-protected.)
But Taylor, who stressed a wait-and-see analysis of the latest move, did not question the job McHale has done for him as the chief decision-maker on all personnel matters over the past decade.
"I think most fans overreact when we do well and overreact when we do poor," Taylor told The Associated Press in a phone interview. "I just have to look at the long run. In the long run, we've done some really nice things. Overall our team, since I bought it 10 years ago, we've been a really good team.
"That's how we really calculate the results that Kevin has done, from where we started to where we are now. I don't just take it one day. I like what Kevin has done."