Flip Saunders

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Flip Saunders : biography

February 23, 1955 –

Phillip "Flip" Saunders (born February 23, 1955) is an American former basketball head coach and the current President of Basketball Operations for the Minnesota Timberwolves. He had head coaching stints with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Detroit Pistons, and Washington Wizards.

Personal

Saunders is married to Debbie. Their son, Ryan, was a 6-foot-1 guard for the University of Minnesota, Flip’s alma mater. Their other children are Mindy, Rachel, and Kimberly.

According to Saunders, he was about away from the I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapse on August 1, 2007., updated August 2, 2007

Coaching record

|- | style="text-align:left;"|MIN | style="text-align:left;"| |62||20||42||.323|| style="text-align:center;"|6th in Midwest||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed Playoffs |- | style="text-align:left;"|MIN | style="text-align:left;"| |82||40||42||.488|| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Midwest||3||0||3||.000 | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round |- | style="text-align:left;"|MIN | style="text-align:left;"| |82||45||37||.549|| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Midwest||5||2||3||.400 | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round |- | style="text-align:left;"|MIN | style="text-align:left;"| |50||25||25||.500|| style="text-align:center;"|4th in Midwest||4||1||3||.250 | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round |- | style="text-align:left;"|MIN | style="text-align:left;"| |82||50||32||.610|| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Midwest||4||1||3||.250 | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round |- | style="text-align:left;"|MIN | style="text-align:left;"| |82||47||35||.573|| style="text-align:center;"|4th in Midwest||4||1||3||.250 | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round |- | style="text-align:left;"|MIN | style="text-align:left;"| |82||50||32||.610|| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Midwest||3||0||3||.000 | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round |- | style="text-align:left;"|MIN | style="text-align:left;"| |82||51||31||.622|| style="text-align:center;"|3rd in Midwest||6||2||4||.333 | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in First Round |- | style="text-align:left;"|MIN | style="text-align:left;"| |82||58||24||.707|| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Midwest||18||10||8||.556 | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conf. Finals |- | style="text-align:left;"|MIN | style="text-align:left;"| |51||25||26||.490|| style="text-align:center;"|(fired)||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|— |- | style="text-align:left;"|DET | style="text-align:left;"| |82||64||18||.780|| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Central||18||10||8||.556 | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conf. Finals |- | style="text-align:left;"|DET | style="text-align:left;"| |82||53||29||.649|| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Central||16||10||6||.625 | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conf. Finals |- | style="text-align:left;"|DET | style="text-align:left;"| |82||59||23||.720|| style="text-align:center;"|1st in Central||17||10||7||.588 | style="text-align:center;"|Lost in Conf. Finals |- | style="text-align:left;"|WAS | style="text-align:left;"| |82||26||56||.317|| style="text-align:center;"|5th in Southeast||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed Playoffs |- | style="text-align:left;"|WAS | style="text-align:left;"| |82||23||59||.280|| style="text-align:center;"|5th in Southeast||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|Missed Playoffs |- | style="text-align:left;"|WAS | style="text-align:left;"| |17||2||15||.118|| style="text-align:center;"|(fired)||—||—||—||— | style="text-align:center;"|— |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:left;"|Career | ||1147||638||526||.548|| ||98||47||51||.480