I think they got their heart sent on Tyreke Evans.
T Wolves walk outta the draft with a combination of Tyreke Evans and Stephen Curry.
Then they'll have a starting lineup of
Curry and evans
Corey Brewer
Al Jefferson and Kevin Love
The only person who won't be a top 7 pick there will be Big Al.
Yeah, they won't be great but they'll be decent with an eye towards the future.
Not as much potential as OKC maybe but still a lot of potential.
The one thing they have that OKC doesn't is an above average front court duo (which Jefferson and Love already are) with a near unlimited ceiling.
OKC makes up for it by having a superstar and one-day MVP kind of player in Durant.
If OKC gets Curry, Rubio, or Harden, I think they'll be pretty stacked in another year or two.
The Wolves could be that way if they pick the right guys with their draft picks. We'll see.
Oh , I agree about Durant being a once in 7-8 drafts player. But frontcourts win championships, so in that sense the T-Wolves are farther along if Love keeps developing.
You might be right. If the T-Wolves get say...Curry and Harden (if they get lucky and Sacramento takes Evans or Flynn) then they'll have 4 great young building blocks: Curry, Harden, Love, and Big Al.
They'd still have a big hole at SF (a hole Brewer or Gomes isn't likely to adequately fill) and they still wouldn't have a great bench, but that's a solid nucleus for a team that could be quite good in a few years, maybe even more so than OKC. Especially since the T-Wolves will probably get another high lottery pick next year which they could possibly use to pick up a good forward.