Timberwolves coach Flip Saunders began Wednesday with a horrible sense of deja vu.
Fourteen months after receiving an early-morning phone call with the news that starting shooting guard Malik Sealy had been killed in a car accident, Saunders' home telephone rang again. This time, it was a local radio host, telling Saunders that Vikings tackle Korey Stringer -- another Minnesota athlete in the prime of his career -- had died of heat stroke.