Minneapolis/St. Paul – The Minnesota
Timberwolves today announced the team has signed center Kleon Penn and guard
Nick Wiggins.
Penn,
29, most recently played in 45 games with Vaqueros de Bayamon in Puerto Rico,
averaging 4.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2.0 blocks in 18.4 minutes per game.
Penn, a Virgin Islands native, recently won a gold medal in June with the
Virgin Islands during the Caribbean Basketball Confederation Championships, a
team that interim head coach Sam Mitchell led. Penn finished his college career
at McNeese State in 2009.
Wiggins,
24, appeared in three games for the Timberwolves 2015 NBA Las Vegas Summer
League entry, averaging 4.0 points in 11.0 minutes per game. Wiggins, 6-6,
spent parts of last season with the Idaho Stampede in the NBA D-League,
averaging 9.8 points and 2.0 rebounds per game. Wiggins, the older brother of
Andrew Wiggins, started the year in Germany playing with the Tigers Tubingen.
Wiggins played two seasons at Wichita State University and went undrafted in
the 2014 NBA Draft.
Penn
will wear No. 50 while Wiggins will don No. 6.
2015-16 TIMBERWOLVES
ROSTER
|
NO
|
PLAYER
|
POS
|
HT
|
WT
|
BIRTHDATE
|
PRIOR
TO NBA/FROM
|
YRS
|
|
11
|
Anthony
Bennett
|
F
|
6-8
|
245
|
03/14/93
|
UNLV/Canada
|
2
|
|
88
|
Nemanja
Bjelica
|
F
|
6-10
|
234
|
05/09/88
|
Fenerbahce
Ulker/Serbia
|
R
|
|
7
|
Lorenzo
Brown
|
G
|
6-5
|
189
|
08/26/90
|
North
Carolina State/USA
|
2
|
|
5
|
Gorgui
Dieng
|
C
|
6-11
|
233
|
01/18/90
|
Louisville/Sénégal
|
2
|
|
21
|
Kevin
Garnett
|
F
|
6-11
|
253
|
05/19/76
|
Farragut
Academy HS/USA
|
20
|
|
1
|
Tyus
Jones
|
G
|
6-1
|
190
|
05/10/96
|
Duke/USA
|
R
|
|
8
|
Zach
LaVine
|
G
|
6-5
|
183
|
03/10/95
|
UCLA/USA
|
1
|
|
23
|
Kevin
Martin
|
G
|
6-7
|
204
|
02/01/83
|
Western
Carolina/USA
|
11
|
|
24
|
Andre
Miller
|
G
|
6-2
|
200
|
03/19/76
|
Utah/USA
|
16
|
|
15
|
Shabazz
Muhammad
|
F
|
6-6
|
227
|
11/13/92
|
UCLA/USA
|
2
|
|
33
|
Adreian
Payne
|
F
|
6-10
|
240
|
02/19/91
|
Michigan
State/USA
|
1
|
|
14
|
Nikola
Pekovic
|
C
|
6-11
|
295
|
01/03/86
|
Panathinaikos/Montenegro
|
5
|
|
50
|
Kleon
Penn
|
C
|
6-11
|
285
|
09/01/86
|
McNeese
State/Virgin Islands
|
R
|
|
12
|
Tayshaun
Prince
|
F
|
6-9
|
215
|
02/28/80
|
Kentucky/USA
|
13
|
|
9
|
Ricky
Rubio
|
G
|
6-4
|
192
|
10/21/90
|
FC
Barcelona/Spain
|
4
|
|
10
|
Damjan
Rudež
|
F
|
6-10
|
230
|
06/17/86
|
CAI
Zaragoza/Croatia
|
1
|
|
32
|
Karl-Anthony
Towns
|
F/C
|
6-11
|
250
|
11/15/95
|
Kentucky/USA
|
R
|
|
22
|
Andrew
Wiggins
|
F
|
6-8
|
199
|
02/23/95
|
Kansas/Canada
|
1
|
|
6
|
Nick
Wiggins
|
G
|
6-6
|
192
|
01/04/91
|
Wichita
State/Canada
|
R
|
INTERIM HEAD COACH: Sam Mitchell (Mercer)
ASSISTANT COACHES: Sidney Lowe (North Carolina State)
Ryan Saunders (Minnesota)
David Adelman (Portland State)
Bryan Gates (Boise State)
HEAD ATHLETIC TRAINER: Gregg Farnam (St. Cloud State)
PRONUNCIATION GUIDE
Nemanja Bjelica | nay-MON-yah bee-ELL-leets-zah
Gorgui Dieng | GOR-ghee Jeng
Zach LaVine | Luh-VEEN
Shabazz Muhammad | Shuh-BAHZ
Nikola Pekovic | NEE-koh-lah PEK-oh-vitch
Damjan Rudež | Dom-YON RUE-dez
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