David Kahn wasted no time in starting the remodeling of the Timberwolves.

He got rid of 2 major underachievers in Randy Foye and Mike Miller by trading them to the Wizards for the 5th pick in this year's draft.

We also got 3 vets but I'd be surprised if any of them actually are on the roster at the start of the season so I'm not going to bother trying to spell their names.

The Wolves now have the 5th, 6th, 18th and 28th picks in this years's draft.

I suspect they won't package the 5 and 6 picks to move up.

My guess is that they'll pick their new backcourt by taking Tyreke Evans out of Memphis and James Harden from Arizona State.

If Hasheem Thabeet or Ricky Rubio happen to fall to them that would be an awesome early Christmas present.

Evans and Harden would give them a big backcourt that will be hard to handle for most of the other guards in the league.

With the 18th and 28th picks, I would look to add another point guard and possibly a big man.

The Wolves have the chance to be major players intomorrow night's draft.

Let's hope Kahn doesn't go McHale on us and pick the next Ndudi Ebi.

Discussion about a Vikings stadium has begun again, this time centering around Minneapolis.

I believe the Vikings will eventually either end up remodeling the Metrodome or tearing it down and building a new stadium on the same site -- similar to what happened in St. Paul when the Xcel Center was built at the site of the St. Paul Civic Center.

Currently the problem with remodeling the Metrodome or building a new stadium on that site is that the Vikings would not have anywhere to play while construction is underway.

That problem will be solved when the University of Minnesota opens its new stadium in 2009 which is 2 years before the Vikings lease runs out.

The Vikings could play at the Gophers stadium until their new stadium was finished, much like the Bears did when they played at the University of Illinois while Soldier Field was renovated.

The biggest advantage that Minneapolis has over the other sites such as Blaine is that the necessary infrastructure is already in place.

Adequate highway access along with the light rail system, which will most likely expand, are already available.

The other sites would need millions of dollars to improve roads and other infrastructure in addition to the money already needed to build the stadium.

I doubt that the legislature would approve building a new stadium in the suburbs once building in downtown Minneapolis becomes a viable option.

It'll be interesting how this story unfolds over the next year or two.