Even with his knee in a lot of pain, Timberwolves coach Chris Finch was still firing some zingers at assistant Micah Nori after the Wolves clinched their first-round series against Phoenix.
Nori filled in for Finch earlier in the season when Finch was too ill to coach a road game against Cleveland and again when Finch went out because of a ruptured right patellar tendon he suffered after a collision with point guard Mike Conley on Sunday.
Finch reminded Nori of that night in Ohio.
"Even after the game, he was blaming me for the Cleveland loss, which probably cost him the voting in the Coach of the Year," Nori said of Finch, who finished third for that award.