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1. Those Minnesota first rounders can be pretty valuable just not to Minnesota. See exhibit A:

1989 draft (first franchise draft) they drafted Pooh Richardson. They could have picked 8 All-stars and two HOFers all of who were selected after Pooh! Mookie Blaylock, Tim Hardaway, Dana Barros, Shawn Kemp, BJ Armstrong, Vladi Divac, Clifford Robinson or Dino Rada!

His first name was literally Pooh!

1990 thru 93 we’re not good drafts for them

1994 we picked Donyell Marshall who sucked! Soft and squishy. Who could we have picked? Juwan Howard, Eddie Jones, Brian Grant, Jalen Rose,

In 95 we got one right with KG

In 96 we picked Ray Allen but immediately treated him for who??? Stephon Marbury (major headcase and flame out)!! Man he was such a head case. Also of note in 96 we could have got Kobe, Peja, Steve Nash (not a headcase), and Z.

97 we pick Radoslav Nesterovic…

98 Paul Grant who was out of the NBA within a year.

THEN in ‘99 we pick 6th and take Wally Szczerbiak when we could have had Richard Hamilton, Shawn Marion, Ron Artest, Andre Kirilenko, or Manu Ginobili!!!

2000 No 1 RD pick

2001 we forfeit a pick because of under the table dealing to get Joe Smith….freaking Joe Smith. PS Gilbert Arenas was the next pick…

2002 another forfeited pick due to Joe smith…PS Carlos Boozer was available

2003 we pick 26th and we could have picked Kendrick Perkins, Leandro Barbosa, Mo Williams, Kyle Korver or Zaza. But we pick a guy named Ndudi Ebi. Never played in the NBA.

2004 another freaking forfeited pick!!! Dang Joe smith! Anderson Varejo was the next pick…Trevor Ariza was also still on the board.

2005 Rashad McCants instead of Danny Granger Gerald Green Hakeem Warem Nate Robinson Luther head or David Lee

2006 we pick Brandon Roy who had no knees but could’ve picked up Rudy Gay JJ Redick Thabo Shefolosha, Rajon Rondo, Kyle Lowry P.J. Tucker, Paul Millsap or a dozen other players with knees.

2009 we have back to back picks 5th and 6th and pick two guards. Ricky Rubio and Johnny Flyn. The next guard picked…Stephen Curry. Even I knew to pick Stephen curry if you were going to pick two guards.

I won’t go on. I can’t go on. Sorry for the rant.

The only good picks were Kevin Garnett and KAT. THAT’S IT!!! Man they have sucked…sucked my fandom right out of me.