The new Timberwolves vice president of basketball performance and technology grew up watching his hometown team as much to hear Trent Tucker on the call as he did to see Kevin Garnett prowl the paint.



Montell Jordan personally serenaded him and his wife on the dance floor at their wedding.



He endeared himself to his new team with a word-for-word, rhyme-for-rhyme, beat-for-beat rendition of Tupac’s “California Love” that brought the house down at a team karaoke event.



“He went gangsta on us,” Karl-Anthony Towns said.



He overcame a debilitating eye condition that set in during his medical residency and derailed his dream of becoming an orthopedic surgeon, got his undergraduate degree from Penn and his medical degree from USC and embarked on a career in anesthesiology. He then married his passions for medicine and sports to become a pioneer in sports science analytics and left a lucrative private practice to team with...