The Minnesota Timberwolves have the market cornered on No. 1 picks.
In an unusual circumstance, the player selected first in this year’s N.B.A. draft will probably join the first player selected in each of the last two drafts — Anthony Bennett and Andrew Wiggins — on the Timberwolves, who won the right to the top pick in the draft lottery on Tuesday. Bennett and Wiggins were acquired in a trade for Kevin Love, but the Timberwolves helped secure this year’s pick the old-fashioned way: by having the league’s worst record.