Eric Musselman is going to sell you on USC men’s basketball ... and a manuscript of “33.9,” the book a young Bill Musselman penned in 1969 after authoring the nation’s top defense at Ashland.

The young Musselman lived on the seventh floor of Hennepin Crossing Apartments, in downtown Minneapolis, in the Timberwolves’ second season in 1990-91. Thibodeau lived on the sixth floor.

Musselman continued his point about college basketball development and not building resumes, thereby hindering development in ...

And midgame, naturally, he asked head coach Eric Musselman for a break. Denied. “He said if I wanna be an NBA player,” Thomas after USC’s victory over Iowa on Tuesday, “I gotta suck it up.” ...

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As young assistants under Musselman’s late father Bill with the Minnesota Timberwolves, the future head coaches learned when to stick with your toughest five.