Just got a text from a league source on the Wolves’ contract negotiations with Kurt Rambis:

“They’re getting close.”

Guaranteed years are the big issue with Rambis, who will be entrusted with rebuilding a team that is even younger than the one that won just 46 games the past two seasons.

Sounds like it will take a four-year deal to get it done, probably at $2 million or more a season.

If he does get four years, that will be one year longer than his boss, president of basketball operations David Kahn.

The deal likely will be completed Friday, which doesn’t necessarily mean, though, it will be announced Friday.

Rambis already was working earlier Thursday to assemble astaff. Multiple reports have Boston assistant GM Dave Wohl in line to became his first assistant.

Wohl has been in the league more than 30 years and coached New Jersey in the 1980s, the same decade when he was also an assistant on Lakers team on which Rambis played.

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