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<div class="bi">Portland Was Almost Flip's Home</div>
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<span style="font-style: italic">Nov 14</span> - Had things gone a little differently back in the summer of 2001, the Trail Blazers team the Pistons played Tuesday night might have been coached by Flip Saunders.</p>
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"I was about five minutes away from taking the job," Saunders recalled before the Pistons' morning shoot-around. "Minnesota called back right at the last minute. I was actually in my office packing my stuff."</p>
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"Things were not progressing with Minnesota and I was ready to roll out," Saunders said. "Minnesota called at the last second."</p>
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Saunders actually took less money to stay with the Timberwolves, but he did so because he did not want to relocate his family. -- <font color="#000000">Detroit News</font></p></div></div>
<div class="bi">Portland Was Almost Flip's Home</div>
<div>
<span style="font-style: italic">Nov 14</span> - Had things gone a little differently back in the summer of 2001, the Trail Blazers team the Pistons played Tuesday night might have been coached by Flip Saunders.</p>
</p>
"I was about five minutes away from taking the job," Saunders recalled before the Pistons' morning shoot-around. "Minnesota called back right at the last minute. I was actually in my office packing my stuff."</p>
</p>
"Things were not progressing with Minnesota and I was ready to roll out," Saunders said. "Minnesota called at the last second."</p>
</p>
Saunders actually took less money to stay with the Timberwolves, but he did so because he did not want to relocate his family. -- <font color="#000000">Detroit News</font></p></div></div>