Who Should the Wolves Send to the Lottery?
by Jon Marthaler on May 5, 2010 12:00 PM CDT
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PrintIn less than two weeks, the NBA Draft Lottery will be held in Secaucus, NJ - and the Timberwolves have yet to decide who will represent the team on the podium. In past years, they've tried sending Randy Foye and Kevin Love, and once in desperation they sent Fred Hoiberg with a lucky teddy bear (pictured). So far, nothing has worked.
The T-Wolves Blog is running their own contest to pick a representative, but with the lottery sneaking up, I thought it best to take a look at some of the possibilities and their pros and cons.
Al Jefferson
Pro: The closest thing the Wolves have to a face of the franchise.
Con: Nothing to do in Secaucus but drink, and if you can't find a cab in Minneapolis...
Jonny Flynn
Pro: Top pick from last year is young, optimistic, and exuberant.
Con: If handed the winning envelope, probably would drop it out of bounds.
David Kahn
Pro: Likely to be the one constant with the team amidst the upheaval he has created.
Con: If other GMs show up, he might trade his lottery spot, out of habit.
Kevin Garnett
Pro: ANYTHING IS POSSIBLLLLLLLLLE!
Con: Not living in Minnesota has turned him into a jerk. May be unavailable due to suspension.
Ricky Rubio
Pro: Perhaps the luck of having him fall to the Wolves last year will transfer over to another year.
Con: Perhaps he won't show up.
Brian Cardinal
Pro: Though effort and veteran leadership seldom factor in to the draft lottery, hey, they can't hurt.
Con: The guy was both a Timberwolf and a Knick in the same season, AND was traded for Darko Milicic, and so is clearly the least lucky person in the NBA.
Darko Milicic
Pro: Probably more available than Sam Bowie.
Con: Sure, everyone would laugh, but they'd be laughing at us, not with us.
Fred Hoiberg
Pro: Able to look adorable with a teddy bear.
Con: Unable to stay away from Ames, Iowa.
Brad Lohaus
Pro: Available.
Con: According to Wikipedia, is a scout for the Spurs. Also went to Iowa despite being born in New Ulm, making him a traitor.
Christian Laettner
Pro: To break the streak of bad luck, who better than the person who started the streak of bad luck?
Con: Don't think his old "LOSER, LOSER, LOSER, LOSER, WINNER (points at self)" routine would go down well on TV.
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Perfect choice
The Wolves will then get the #3 pick, decide not to trade up, see the team do nothing for about six years, then get lucky in the lottery in 2016, using that pick to finally acquire the player they should have gotten now, Evan Turner.
If you know nothing about the Lynx or Whalen’s popularity in MN about six years ago, this will be a meaningless post.
Count my vote.
"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." RWE
maybe conrad smith...
..the front office guy from the lynx who walked away with the #1 pick last year in the wnba.
Forever splitting the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs
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only two choices
de firss iz obviously…ME mayn! I’ma beeass i promise u dis an iw ould be thowedddd mayn i wud be straigh gone off de kill and de drank no lie
de only otha accpetable chocie wud be Z-Ro THE CROOKED!!!!
MAYN HOL UP!
by MAYNHOLUP on May 5, 2010 12:13 PM CDT reply actions 5 recs
Welcome to Canis!
It’s an acquired taste.
"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." RWE
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." -- Yogi Berra
by Wile E Coyote on May 5, 2010 9:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Second this nomination
actually, I nominated Maynholup on some other non-cooking related thread here.
"Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have." Steven Wright
On a semi-serious note
Paul Allen is going due to an agreement he made with Kahn re: his successful derby pick.
Sounds like PA won’t be allowed on TV though, so he’ll be the ‘off-stage’ lucky charm.
For on stage, I’d go with MAYNHOLUP. I’d love to see him on TV holding the #1 envelope and shouting.
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." -- Yogi Berra
What happened to cute old
Delores Johnson from Alexandria?
"Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have." Steven Wright
Joe Mauer
Pro: He’s a #1 overall pick for a Minnesota franchise that’s turned out great
Con: He’d get a papercut on the envelope and be listed as week-to-week
The only reasonable choice is 3 reps: Rambis, Laimbeer, and McHale.
They get into a tussle on TV, which draws everyone else’s attention while PA checks the envelopes and switches them so that the Wolves end up at 1.
by pagingstanleyroberts on May 5, 2010 1:01 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Jesse Ventura?
Pro: Our representative can beat up your representative.
Con: None, absolutely nothing.
JESSE JESSE
It’s a perfect win win situation.
We win if we get the #1 pick.
Jesse wins if we don’t get the #1 pick, because Jesse has more material for his Conspiracy TV show.
by Just A Fan on May 5, 2010 8:54 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
You're right, with Jesse in the middle of it
He would turn it into another book and an entire season of his show.
Can you imagine him towering over Stern
saying “I will BREAK you, little man, if you screw the Wolves in the draft again.”
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." -- Yogi Berra
by Wile E Coyote on May 5, 2010 9:15 PM CDT up reply actions
wow
that is a great idea! if kahn could get rubio to be our representative it would be a hit. and it would shut up all of the hating twolves fans. that is my hope…rubio winning us wall so he can get far far away from MN. just kidding. rubio winning us turner. a rubio turner back court for the next five to ten years would be something.
humerous post
I don’t have the answer but I really like the way the post was written Jon.
Brett Favre
Pro: Guaranteed media frenzy. If Wolves fare poorly in the lottery, he can officially announce his return to football and bury the bad news.
Con: Didn’t fare all that great in New Jersey in 2008. May decide not to show up at the last minute.
He’d skip the pre-production walk-through, miss the first 10 picks or so, and walk across the stage right at the end asking loudly “What’d I miss? I’m ready now”
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." -- Yogi Berra
by Wile E Coyote on May 5, 2010 4:35 PM CDT up reply actions
rick mahorn and joe smith
rick mahron was the original t-pups “bitch” and joe smith (with kevin mchale’s help) cost us…what…6 first round picks…
Send someone from the Magic, Bulls or Clippers
Send like John Paxson. That’s about the only way we’ll get the #1 or #2.
Did anyone listen to David Kahn on the last radio interview that Stop N Pop posted?
I swear that he was saying… ( and I do apologize that I have no idea what the horse racing thing is called, such a noob).. That if the horse he picked wins, that he should go, and that he hasn’t won the races in 18 years…
I think his horse won, and since this is about who he should send… Maybe someone should look this up
by KidChild Hayden on May 5, 2010 11:38 PM CDT reply actions
Yes, that happened.
The Horse was Super Saver.
"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." RWE
and his pick came hot on the heels...
…of him guaranteeing that the twins would win the series in detroit. this is the tyranny of the coin flip with a guy who has a history of bad bets. each bet/race/whatever has the same odds and there is no such thing as being “hot”. if he’s only picked the right horse once in the last 18 years, we have a guy with 1/18 odds playing below what the house is giving the wolves to start with. run away!!! ;)
btw…i think it would be kind of interesting to see pa go, if only for the coverage on the radio, as him being there has nothing to do with the actual picks. i don’t know why anyone would want to fight the odds to be the face of not moving up. he’s definitely a gambler.
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As I mentioned above, PA won't be allowed on stage/TV
So he won’t really be the face of not moving up. But he said he is going to feel that way.
I think this is a canny move by Kahn. PA has perhaps the most influential time slot & show on KFAN, and that station has a lot of influence in the sports fan community.
When idiots like Common are spewing stuff like “Well, I haven’t been to a Wolves game in 13-14 months, but they suck” it is damaging to the fan base. Especially since KFAN is the radio home of the Wolves.
PA is a Wolves homer already, but he has been pretty quiet for while since (1) they have stunk and (2) the McHale regime did absolute nothing to drum up media support/interest.
With Kahn engaging people like PA, I think the Wolves will start rebuilding interest in the team. PA spent about 15 minutes in the opening part of the show talking about the Wolves upcoming lottery, when there was the Vikings stadium issue and Twins winning to also discuss. That is a good thing for the Wolves.
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." -- Yogi Berra
by Wile E Coyote on May 6, 2010 9:35 AM CDT up reply actions
PA loves the attention
but in this case I think it would be a worthy choice. He has been one of the few Wolves fans on the radio the last few years. Would also be good to see him and Kahn continue to work together on the radio.
Jonah Ballow's Twitter
jonahballow: David Kahn will represent the #Twolves at the NBA Draft Lottery — 1130 KFAN radio host Paul Allen will serve as lucky charm
Least shocking news of the year. Kahn wouldn’t miss any chance to play POBO on National TV.
I'm keeping track of other teams' coaching searches
to see how many of them make a hire before May 29th or so. That’s when the Wolves hired Kahn last year. Then DK had to make the choice on McHale, and do his own coaching search…. Which some posters are livid about his not finishing before the draft less than a month later.
It’ll be a fair surprise to me if more than one team gets to draft night without having a coach on staff, but the timeline was ridiculous last summer. Glen Taylor, thanks so much.
"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." RWE
:)
He is almost fuzzy enough to match the bear.
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." -- Yogi Berra
by Wile E Coyote on May 6, 2010 8:59 PM CDT up reply actions
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