--Ryan Gomes joined Wolves forward Corey Brewer on the team's promotional summer caravan tour that hit the road Tuesday in Mankato, Minn., owner Glen Taylor's home base.

Gomes' presence there does not necessarily mean the restricted free agent will soon re-sign with a franchise that already has brought Craig Smith and Sebastian Telfair back for at least another two seasons. His agent has sought a full mid-level exception for his client. The Wolves can match any offer Gomes signs with another team within seven days.

The team asked Gomes, a 6-7 forward, after last season if he would participate in the summer caravan and he agreed, as long as he wasn't a member of another team by then.

"I'm a community guy, so I said yes," Gomes said by telephone from Mankato. "I don't know where I'm going to be yet. I made a commitment and stuck with it.

Wolves vice president of basketball operations Kevin McHale said the team was making "headway" in re-signing Gomes.

"I can tell you there's very few people who would be doing that," McHale said of Gomes at a news conference to announce Telfair's signing. "That's another reason why we're very, very fond of these guys and think they're very special young men. I'd love to be able to sit here with Ryan up there where Sebastian is and be done with it."

--Wolves coach Randy Wittman is expected to add Houston Rockets vice president of player personnel Dean Cooper as an assistant coach to replace Bob Ociepka, who accepted a job on Vinny Del Negro's Bulls coaching staff in Ociepka's hometown of Chicago. Cooper has been with the Rockets for nine seasons as a video coordinator, assistant coach, scout and last season was vice president of player personnel.

--Kevin McHale said the Wolves will hold training camp, beginning in late September, in Mankato, Minn., owner Glen Taylor's home base. He also said he'd like to add a combo guard who could serve as a third point guard to Randy Foye and Sebastian Telfair, but said that issue is on the "back burner."

QUOTE TO NOTE
"Maybe we can try to get my little brother be that third guard. He's too young now. But maybe next year, we can get him in the draft." -- Wolves point guard Sebastian Telfair on the prospects of landing his precocious 13-year-old brother, Ethan, a job beside him in the team's backcourt.

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