Timberwolves coach Randy Wittman said he would like to invite former Michigan State point guard Mateen Cleaves and former Iowa forward Ryan Bowen to training camp after they played well for the team in the Las Vegas summer league.

The Heat have declined overtures from point guard Troy Hudson, a proven scorer.

Hudson was a longtime member of the Wolves before his contract was bought out.

Eddie Griffin's funeral was held on Tuesday in Houston.

Griffin died when his sport utility vehicle collided with a moving freight train near his Houston home. Griffin's body was badly burned and there was no initial identification. Dental records later revealed the man was Griffin.

Kevin Garnett, his former Timberwolves teammate, former Seton Hall coach Tommy Amaker and former NBA coach John Lucas were among the 200 friends, players and family members who attended the service at First African Baptist Church.

"He's a special guy to me," said Amaker, who coached Griffin in his one season at Seton Hall.

The Timberwolves report that they have heard from fewer than 30 season-ticket holders who said they would drop their seats because of the trade of Kevin Garnett to the Celtics. The Wolves are trying to get them to reconsider.

Services have been set for former basketball star Eddie Griffin, who died last week in Houston of injuries suffered when his sport utility vehicle crashed into a freight train.

The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at First African Baptist Church, 109 Clifton Ave., Sharon Hill, Delaware County.

Griffin, a 6-10 forward, was widely considered the nation's No. 1 scholastic player for Roman Catholic High in 2000, as well as one of the top five in city history.

He played one season at Seton Hall, then for three teams in the NBA. His pro career was marred by numerous personal problems. He was released by Minnesota last March. He had been living in Houston since playing for the Rockets in the 2001-02 season.

John Lucas has counseled many troubled people over the years, including Eddie Griffin, who died last week in Houston.

"I was shocked, but not surprised," Lucas said. "In my mind, it was a suicide attempt.

"I absolutely loved my two years with Eddie. He was always a gentleman. But he became a different person when he was doing something that didn't agree with him chemically."

It was that dependency that led to Griffin to Lucas early in 2005.

In his final days, former Timberwolves forward Eddie Griffin was getting his life together and he showed interest in reviving his basketball career overseas, one of his agents said Wednesday.

According to agent Jeff Wernick, who worked closely with Griffin for six years, Griffin was trying to put the pieces back together after being waived by the Wolves in March. He had been working through issues with the mother of his young daughter, and was exploring the possibility of playing in Europe next season.

"I would say that the shock was exacerbated by the fact that there really were no signs" of problems, Wernick said. "All of our conversations in recent weeks were terrific. They were upbeat. At this stage, I'm not even sure what the heck happened. Certainly there was nothing in our communication from everything I know of what was going on in Houston that would have pointed to anything untoward."

After receiving what was described as a dignified trade request from Juwan Howard, Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor said he will try to accommodate the power forward, who was acquired in June as part of a three-team deal. Howard initially made the request to Wolves vice president Kevin McHale.

The Wolves are talking to three teams about potential trades in an attempt to deal players with longer-term contracts. But because of contract complexities, a deal could take until training camp in October.

The Wolves are seeking draft picks and/or younger players.

Eddie Griffin was starting to drink again before the Timberwolves waived him March 13, Kevin McHale said during a conference call Wednesday.

At that time the troubled 6-10 forward needed help best available at a rehabilitation center near his home in Houston, said the Wolves vice president of basketball operations. "He was cycling down into a bad, bad spot," McHale said. "In one of the last conversations I had with Eddie, he said, 'I got to go. It's unhealthy for me here.' "

Griffin, who played for the Wolves for nearly three seasons, died Friday at age 25 when his sports-utility vehicle struck a moving train in Houston.

McHale called Griffin a good-natured person with a lot of demons.

Teammates from Steve Francis in Houston to Kevin Garnett in Minnesota, always said they liked Eddie Griffin, but did not really know him very well.

But there was something inside him that when mixed with alcohol, brought out a different guy, one most of us never saw. A gentle guy could become violent and destructive, self-destructive most of all. And once that alcohol got control, Griffin's best intentions and the best treatment from the Betty Ford Center and from John Lucas in Houston, could not control that other Eddie.

Griffin, who was just 25, was so tormented that Lucas, with pain in his voice, said, "He is free now."