Phil "Flip" Saunders, head coach of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves, has died, the team announced Sunday.
Saunders, who also served as the team's president of basketball operations and part owner, was 60.
The veteran coach was being treated for Hodgkin lymphoma. On Friday, the team announced that Saunders would sit out the upcoming basketball season.
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