Timberwolves release VI’s Kleon ‘BigKle’ Penn
The Timberwolves waived training camp signings Penn and Nick (brother of Andrew) Wiggins, as well as the partially guaranteed Lorenzo Brown, who spent much of last season with the Wolves, but with three other pure point guards was always on the fringes of this season's roster.
According to canishoopus.com, the Wolves will head into the season with a full 15 man roster, as so: Ricky Rubio, Andre Miller, Tyus Jones, Zach LaVine, Kevin Martin, Andrew Wiggins, Tayshaun Prince, Shabazz Muhammad, Damjan Rudez, Nemanja Bjelica, Kevin Garnett, Adreian Payne, Karl-Anthony Towns, Gorgui Dieng and Nikola Pekovic.
Pekovic will be one of the two players on the inactive list (teams can have a maximum of 13 active players for each game) when the season starts Wednesday.
The Minnesota Timberwolves had announced on Friday September 18, 2015 that it had signed [British] Virgin Islands center Kleon 'BigKle' Penn and guard Nick Wiggins for the present NBA season.
Prior to the Wolves, Penn, 29, played in 45 games with Vaqueros de Bayamon in Puerto Rico, averaging 4.5 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2.0 blocks in 18.4 minutes per game. The 6’11 pivot recently competed in the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Championships and was noticed by the interim Timberwolves head coach Sam Mitchell, who was coaching the USVI in the same competition.
Penn finished his college career at McNeese State in 2009.
He made his debut for NBA team Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday October 10, 2015 against the Chicago Bulls in front of a packed house of 15,294 at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg, Canada.
Penn entered the game in the 4th quarter with the Timberwolves already staring a defeat in the pre-season friendly game and had little opportunity to change the result, a 114-105 defeat, but had a solid game at Centre, alongside the likes of Kevin Garnett, Nick Wiggins, Tayshaun Prince and Andrew Wiggins.
With Penn on the court, the Timberwolves saw a plus four point swing, but it was too little too late.
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42 Responses to “Timberwolves release VI’s Kleon ‘BigKle’ Penn”
Boy---bye
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Lololol yes, bye
Your accent is like a Passport, dude, let it represent where you from with NO exceptions. Whenever I roll states it does all time got people wanting to talk like us, wanting to know how we live and the girls eat it up. But it ain't sound like you know anything about that, do you?
Twang, here are a few things to consider before blowing hot air:
1. Melanie Amaro became more popular after she revealed her accent.
2. Caribbean artists, especially Jamiacans still make best selling music with their local tongue.
3. People love Rihanna's accent and as big a star as she is, you can't hide a Basian accent so easy.
4. Iyaz keeps it real too with his accent.
5. look at R. City's success and they never lose their accent either. the incorporate it in everything...
Well done on what you accomplish so far.
Don't stop living you're dreams... What dreams are made of? You already know.
i know i shouldn't laugh but HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA
your comment was funny. Not laughing at him though
You BVI people make me sick... you talk about how he isn't ready but fail to talk about how the timberwolves coaches saw something in Mr. Penn that is why they picked him up even though he was injured. Also those that went and played ball for the BVI always got sent back for either smoking or stealing people's money. Which is sad but not a surprise that is all the bvi has to offer. Thank God he is a American and from Puerto Rico. Tortola only claims people when they are doing well and bring them down when they are not. Typical of the people of this Island. Call him down all you want he will succeed and when he does don't bother give him your false praises when you really just wanted to see him at the bottom of the barrel. Also teaching at the high school, really??? He has his degree and can do much more than teach. To those that claim that they know the sport obviously you don't know it, if the timberwolves coach picked him up out of all the players on this pathetic island to come and train with the timberwolves for such a short space of time. Then he obviously has something. You people need to get a life and stop being jealous and envious that in your whole life time you will never accomplish what Mr.Penn has in his. That is the real truth... he has place your insignificant island on the map and not for doing or selling drugs like so much of your young men has done.