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The Minnesota Timberwolves appear to have finally completed their quest to add a free agent big man for the league’s minimum salary, with Monday’s reported signing of forward Louis Amundson. He had drawn some interest from the New York Knicks and Charlotte Bobcats as well as a team in Greece, but ultimately decided to stay in the NBA and join the Timberwolves.
Amundson has been well-traveled over six seasons in the NBA, playing for the Utah Jazz, Philadelphia 76ers, Phoenix Suns and Golden State Warriors before spending last season with the Indiana Pacers. Overall for his career, in 288 games (seven starts), he is averaging 4.0 points and 3.7 rebounds per game in just over 13 minutes played per game. He played 25 games for the Colorado 14ers in the D-League during the 2006-2007 season, and averaged 11.1 points, 7.6 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per game on his way to earning the Rookie of the Year Award for that league.
Amundson should step right in as a veteran presence and primary backup for All-Star power forward Kevin Love, and theoretically could see time at center behind Nikola Pekovic and Greg Stiemsma as well. He is a bit undersized (6’9″, 225 lbs) to play center, but he has done so at times in the past and Timberwolves head coach Rick Adelman may choose to go with him at center when he puts a small lineup on the floor.
Amundson is a solid defensive presence for a player his size, as evidenced by his 2.1 blocked shots per 36 minutes average during his career. The Timberwolves have lacked that type of physical presence around the basket basically since the franchise’s inception, and Amundson and Stiemsma could team to provide that in valuable minutes off the bench behind Love and Pekovic.
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