Rick Adelman is the new head coach of the Timberwolves, but it is not the job he preferred.

According to a report, Adelman badly wanted to coach the Lakers and would have been hired by Mitch Kupchak if not the need to defer to the desire for Mike Brown held by Jim Buss.

Minnesota GM David Kahn reached out to Adelman once Kurt Rambis was fired, but Adelman was uninterested.

Adelman knew Kahn from when he was the head coach of the Blazers and Kahn was a sportswriter in the Portland area.

"The idea that a bad sportswriter had turned into a brutal NBA executive troubled him, sources said. He couldn’t stand him then, and had no intention of resurrecting a working relationship with the man," writes Wojnarowski.

Minnesota owner Glen Taylor had to get involved in the recruitment because Adelman wouldn't have taken the job if Kahn's was the only voice he heard.

“Rick would never agree to anything with Kahn,” one league official connected to Adelman said Monday. “This had to be [a deal] with Taylor. …Rick has talked many times of his dislike for Kahn.”

But Adelman has the power of a five-year contract at $5 million per season and will almost certainly outlast Kahn.