Glen Taylor isn't sure yet about the future of Sam Mitchell and Milt Newton with the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Mitchell and Newton have helped the Wolves' transition this year following the passing of Flip Saunders.

“I like my coach [Sam Mitchell], I like my general manager [Milt Newton], they’re really nice people,” Taylor said. “We’re working together. What I told them is in this business of basketball, we’re going to do the whole season first and then at the end of the season we’ll do the evaluation.”

Taylor purchased the majority ownership of the Wolves for $95 million in 1995 and he believes the current state of the team is similar to then.

“I just think when we first bought it, we had a franchise that was pretty down and hadn’t done very well,” recalled Taylor, who also owns the Star Tribune. “We put a plan to get some young guys in here. That’s when we went out and took a gamble on KG [Kevin Garnett] and [Stephon]Marbury and our goal was to build for the long run and get a better team. We did that. It took us a while to get a championship team.

“In one sense we’re sort of like that again. We have a lot of young guys and we have to be patient, and I’m hopeful we’ll have a chance for the championship again, just like we did during those earlier years. So I’d say we’re similar.”