don’t know if you, dear reader, have realized the Minnesota Timberwolves are not an NBA glamour franchise. This makes acquiring talent sometimes difficult. You have to pay a little more for free agents if there is mutual interest and sometimes draft prospects don’t want to play here.
This is understandable, to a degree. A 19-year-old draft prospect has seen this team make the playoffs just once over the last sixteen years and may (or may not) also know that Minnesota has the worst winning percentage among active franchises. At this point, the likelihood of a draft prospect in 2020 remembering what it was like to see Kevin Garnett play in a Timberwolves uniform is microscopic.