Minnesota Timberwolves draft history

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Kevin Garnett was drafted fifth overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves in 1995.

The Minnesota Timberwolves first participated in the National Basketball Association (NBA) Draft on June 27, 1989, about five months before their inaugural NBA season. The Timberwolves are currently the second NBA team to be based in Minneapolis since the Minneapolis Lakers were there from 1948 to 1960.

Before each draft, an NBA draft lottery determines the first round selection order for the teams that did not make the playoffs during the prior season.[1] Teams can also trade their picks, which means that a team could have more than or less than two picks in one draft. As a result of the various trades, the Minnesota Timberwolves had four draft picks in 1992 and 2006. The Timberwolves drafted Pooh Richardson with their first ever draft pick, tenth overall, in the 1989 NBA draft. In 1995, the Timberwolves picked Kevin Garnett fifth overall, who went on to be a 15-time All-Star.[2] In 1996, the Timberwolves drafted Ray Allen fifth overall but was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks with a future first-round pick for the draft rights of Stephon Marbury.[3] In the 2008 NBA draft, the Timberwolves drafted O. J. Mayo third overall but was traded to the Memphis Grizzlies along with three other players from the Timberwolves for the draft rights to Kevin Love along with three other players from the Grizzlies.[4] Jarrett Culver was drafted with the #6 overall pick in 2019.

Key[]

Ray Allen was drafted fifth overall in 1996 but was later traded
Abbreviation Meaning
Pos Position
G Guard
PG Point guard
SG Shooting guard
F Forward
SF Small forward
PF Power forward
C Center

Selections[]

Draft Round Pick Player Nationality Pos College/High School/Club
1989 1 10 Pooh Richardson  United States PG UCLA
1989 2 38 Doug West  United States SG/SF Villanova
1990 1 6 Felton Spencer  United States C Louisville
1990 1 20 Gerald Glass (from Philadelphia)[b]  United States SG/SF Mississippi
1991 1 7 Luc Longley  Australia C New Mexico
1991 2 34 Myron Brown  United States G Slippery Rock
1992 1 3 Christian Laettner  United States PF/C Duke
1992 2 28 Marlon Maxey  United States F UTEP
1992 2 34 Chris Smith (from Milwaukee)[c]  United States G Connecticut
1992 2 51 Tim Burroughs (from Utah)[d]  United States PF Jacksonville
1993 1 5 Isaiah Rider  United States SG/SF UNLV
1993 2 29 Sherron Mills (from Detroit)[e]  United States F Virginia Commonwealth
1994 1 4 Donyell Marshall  United States F Connecticut
1994 2 30 Howard Eisley  United States G Boston College
1995 1 5 Kevin Garnett  United States PF/C Farragut Academy (HS)
1995 2 48 Mark Davis  United States SG/SF Texas Tech
1995 2 49 Jerome Allen  United States G Pennsylvania
1996 1 5 Ray Allen (traded to Milwaukee)[f]  United States SG Connecticut
1997 1 20 Paul Grant (from Portland)[g]  United States C Wisconsin
1997 2 43 Gordon Malone  United States PF West Virginia
1998 1 17 Rasho Nesterović  Slovenia C Kinder Bologna (Italy)
1998 2 46 Andrae Patterson  United States F Indiana
1999 1 6 Wally Szczerbiak (from New Jersey)[h]  United States F Miami (OH)
1999 1 14 William Avery  United States G Duke
1999 2 42 Louis Bullock  United States SG Michigan
2000 2 51 Igor Rakočević  FR Yugoslavia
(now  Serbia) 		G Red Star Belgrade (Yugoslavia)
2001 2 45 Loren Woods  Lebanon PF/C Arizona
2002 2 51 Marcus Taylor  United States PG Michigan State
2003 1 26 Ndudi Ebi  United Kingdom SF Westbury Christian (HS)
2003 2 55 Rick Rickert  United States PF Minnesota
2004 2 58 Blake Stepp  United States PG Gonzaga
2005 1 14 Rashad McCants  United States SG North Carolina
2005 2 34 Bracey Wright  United States G Indiana
2006 1 6 Brandon Roy (traded to Portland)[i]  United States SG Washington
2006 2 36 Craig Smith  United States F Boston College
2006 2 37 Bobby Jones (traded to Philadelphia)[j]  United States F Washington
2006 2 57 Loukas Mavrokefalidis (from Phoenix)[k]  Greece F/C PAOK (Greece)
2007 1 7 Corey Brewer  United States SG Florida
2007 2 41 Chris Richard (from Philadelphia)[j]  United States F Florida
2008 1 3 O. J. Mayo (traded to Memphis)[l]  United States SG USC
2008 2 31 Nikola Peković (from Miami via Boston)[m]  Montenegro C KK Partizan (Serbia and Adriatic League)
2008 2 34 Mario Chalmers (traded to Miami)[n]  United States PG Kansas
2009 1 5 Ricky Rubio (from Washington)[o]  Spain PG DKV Joventut (Spain)
2009 1 6 Jonny Flynn  United States PG Syracuse
2009 1 18 Ty Lawson (from Miami) (traded to Denver)[p]  United States PG North Carolina
2009 1 28 Wayne Ellington (from Boston)[q]  United States SG North Carolina
2009 2 45 Nick Calathes (from Philadelphia via Miami)[r]  United States PG Florida
2009 2 47 Henk Norel (from Miami)[s]  Netherlands PF DKV Joventut (Spain)
2010 1 4 Wesley Johnson  United States SF Syracuse
2010 1 30 Lazar Hayward  United States SF Marquette
2011 1 2 Derrick Williams  United States SF Arizona
2012 2 58 Robbie Hummel (from Oklahoma City)[t]  United States PF Purdue
2013 1 9 Trey Burke (traded to Utah)[u]  United States PG Michigan
2013 1 26 André Roberson (from Memphis via Houston Rockets,[v] traded to Oklahoma City via Golden State)[w]  United States SG Colorado
2013 2 52 Lorenzo Brown (from Brooklyn via Minnesota and New Orleans)[x]  United States PG NC State
2013 2 59 Bojan Dubljević (from Oklahoma City)[t]  Montenegro PF Valencia Basket (Spain)
2014 1 13 Zach LaVine  United States SG UCLA
2014 2 40 Glenn Robinson III (from New Orleans)[y]  United States SF Michigan
2014 2 44 Markel Brown (traded to Brooklyn)[z]  United States SG Oklahoma State
2014 2 53 Alessandro Gentile (from Golden State[w], traded to Houston)[aa]  Italy SF Olimpia Milano (Italy)
2015 1 1 Karl-Anthony Towns  Dominican Republic
 United States 		C Kentucky
2015 2 31 Cedi Osman (traded to Cleveland)[ab]  Turkey SG/SF Anadolu Efes (Turkey)
2015 2 36 Rakeem Christmas (from Sacramento via Houston[ac], traded to Cleveland)[ab]  United States PF/C Syracuse
2016 1 5 Kris Dunn  United States PG Providence
2017 1 7 Lauri Markkanen (traded to Chicago Bulls)[ad]  Finland PF Arizona
2018 1 20 Josh Okogie (from Oklahoma City via Utah)[ae]  Nigeria
 United States 		SG Georgia Tech
2018 2 48 Keita Bates-Diop  United States SF Ohio State
2019 1 6 Jarrett Culver  United States G Texas Tech
2020 1 1 Anthony Edwards  United States G Georgia
2020 1 17 Aleksej Pokuševski (from Brooklyn via Atlanta, traded to Oklahoma City)  Serbia F Olympiacos (Greece)
2020 2 33 Daniel Oturu (traded to L. A. Clippers)  United States C Minnesota

Notes[]

  • a The Minnesota Timberwolves acquired a second-round draft pick (Gary Leonard) from the Milwaukee Bucks for agreeing to select Mark Davis in the 1989 NBA Expansion Draft.[5]
  • b The Minnesota Timberwolves trade Rick Mahorn to the Philadelphia 76ers for a 1990 first-round (Gerald Glass) and a second-round draft pick, a 1991 second-round draft pick and a conditional 1992 second-round draft pick.[5]
  • c The Minnesota Timberwolves traded Brad Lohaus to the Milwaukee Bucks for Randy Breuer and a conditional one-time exchange of a second-round draft pick in 1992 (Chris Smith).[5]
  • d The Minnesota Timberwolves traded Tyrone Corbin to the Utah Jazz for Thurl Bailey and a 1992 second-round draft pick (Tim Burroughs).[5]
  • e The Minnesota Timberwolves traded Gerald Glass and Mark Randall to the Detroit Pistons for Lance Blanks, Brad Sellers and a future second-round draft pick (Sherron Mills).[5]
  • f The Milwaukee Bucks traded the draft rights of Stephon Marbury to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Ray Allen and a future first-round pick.[3]
  • g The Minnesota Timberwolves traded Isaiah Rider to the Portland Trail Blazers for James Robinson, Bill Curley and a first-round draft pick in 1997 or 1998 (became the 20th pick in the 1997 draft on June 23, 1997) (Paul Grant).[5]
  • h The Minnesota Timberwolves traded Stephon Marbury, Chris Carr and Bill Curley to the New Jersey Nets and Paul Grant to the Milwaukee Bucks in a three-team deal. The Minnesota Timberwolves acquired Terrell Brandon from the Milwaukee Bucks, and Brian Evans and future considerations from the Nets (turned out to be first-round draft pickin 1999 NBA Draft) (Wally Szczcerbiak).[5]
  • i The Minnesota Timberwolves acquired the draft rights to Randy Foye from the Portland Trail Blazers for the draft rights to Brandon Roy.[6]
  • j 1 2 The Philadelphia 76ers acquired the draft rights to Bobby Jones from the Minnesota Timberwolves for a future second-round pick (Chris Richard) and cash considerations.[6]
  • k The Phoenix Suns acquired Nikoloz Tskitishvili from the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for a 2006 second-round draft pick (Loukas Mavrokefalidis).[7]
  • l The Memphis Grizzlies acquired the draft rights to O. J. Mayo along with Marko Jarić, Antoine Walker, and Greg Buckner from the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for the draft rights to Kevin Love along with Mike Miller, Brian Cardinal, and Jason Collins.[4]
  • m The Minnesota Timberwolves received a second-round draft pick (Nikola Peković) from the Miami Heat in a trade involving Antoine Walker via the Boston Celtics in a trade involving Ricky Davis.[8][9]
  • n The Miami Heat acquired the draft rights to Mario Chalmers from the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for two future second-round picks and cash considerations.[4]
  • o On June 24, 2009, Minnesota acquired the 5th pick, Etan Thomas, Darius Songaila and Oleksiy Pecherov from Washington in exchange for Randy Foye and Mike Miller.[10] Minnesota used the 5th pick to draft Ricky Rubio.[10]
  • p On October 24, 2007, Minnesota acquired a 2009 first-round draft pick, Antoine Walker, Wayne Simien, Michael Doleac and cash considerations from Miami in exchange for Ricky Davis and Mark Blount.[11] Minnesota used the 18th pick to draft Ty Lawson.
  • q On July 31, 2007, Minnesota re-acquired their 2009 first-round draft pick along with Al Jefferson, Gerald Green, Ryan Gomes, Sebastian Telfair, Theo Ratliff, a 2009 first-round draft pick and cash considerations from Boston in exchange for Kevin Garnett.[12] Previously, Boston acquired a 2009 first round draft pick, Wally Szczerbiak, Michael Olowokandi and Dwayne Jones on January 26, 2006, from Minnesota in exchange for Ricky Davis, Marcus Banks, Mark Blount, Justin Reed and two second-round draft picks.[12][13] Minnesota used the 28th pick to draft Wayne Ellington.
  • r s On June 26, 2008, Minnesota acquired Philadelphia's and Miami's 2009 second-round draft picks and cash considerations from Miami in exchange for the draft rights to Mario Chalmers.[14] Previously, Miami acquired a 2009 second-round draft pick, the draft rights to Daequan Cook and cash considerations on June 28, 2007, from Philadelphia in exchange for the draft rights to Jason Smith.[15] Minnesota used the 45th and 47th pick to draft Nick Calathes and Henk Norel respectively. Later, on June 26, 2009. the Dallas Mavericks acquired the draft rights to 45th pick Nick Calathes from Minnesota in exchange for a 2010 second-round draft pick and cash considerations.[16]
  • t 1 2 On December 13, 2011, the Minnesota Timberwolves acquired Robert Vaden, a 2012 second-round draft pick (the 58th pick) and a future conditional second-round draft pick from the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for Lazar Hayward.[17]
  • u On June 27, 2013, the Minnesota Timberwolves traded 9th pick Trey Burke to the Utah Jazz in exchange for the 14th pick Shabazz Muhammad and the 21st pick Gorgui Dieng.[18]
  • v On June 23, 2011, the Minnesota Timberwolves acquired Brad Miller, rights to Nikola Mirotić and Chandler Parsons and a 2013 first round pick (the 26th pick) from the Houston Rockets in exchange for Jonny Flynn, rights to Donatas Motiejūnas and a 2012 second-round pick.[19] Previously, on February 24, 2011, the Rockets acquired Hasheem Thabeet, DeMarre Carroll and a 2013 first-round draft pick from Memphis in exchange for Shane Battier and Ish Smith.[20]
  • w 1 2 The Minnesota Timberwolves traded 26th pick Andre Roberson and Malcolm Lee to the Golden State Warriors in exchange for a 2014 second-round pick (the 53rd pick) and cash. Golden State then traded Roberson to the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for the 29th pick (Archie Goodwin) and cash.[18]
  • x On June 23, 2011, the Minnesota Timberwolves acquired a 2013 second round pick (the 52nd pick) from the New Jersey Nets in exchange for the draft rights to Bojan Bogdanović.[21]
  • y On September 9, 2009, Minnesota acquired Antonio Daniels and a 2014 second-round pick (the 40th pick) from New Orleans in exchange for Bobby Brown and Darius Songaila.[22]
  • z On June 26, 2014, the Brooklyn Nets acquired the draft rights to Markel Brown from Minnesota in exchange for cash considerations.[23]
  • aa On the same draft day, Minnesota traded their draft rights to Alessandro Gentile to the Houston Rockets in exchange for cash considerations.[24]
  • ab On June 25, 2015, the Cleveland Cavaliers acquired draft rights to 31st pick Cedi Osman, draft rights to 36th pick Rakeem Christmas, and a 2019 second-round pick from Minnesota Timberwolves in return for the draft rights to 24th pick Tyus Jones.[25]
  • ac On September 17, 2014, the Sacramento Kings acquired Jason Terry, a 2015 second-round pick (the 36th pick) and a 2016 second-round pick from the Houston Rockets in return for Alonzo Gee and Scotty Hopson[26] Later, on December 19, 2014, the Houston Rockets acquired Corey Brewer from Minnesota Timberwolves and Alexey Shved from Philadelphia 76ers; Minnesota acquired Troy Daniels, Sacramento's 2015 second-round pick (the 36th pick), a 2016 second-round pick and cash considerations from Houston; and Philadelphia acquired draft rights to Sergei Lishouk and a 2015 second-round pick from Houston and Ronny Turiaf from Minnesota.[27]
  • ad On June 22, 2017, Chicago acquired Minnesota's first round pick (No. 7), Kris Dunn, and Zach LaVine from Minnesota for Jimmy Butler and Chicago's first round pick (No. 16)[28]
  • ae On June 30, 2017, the Minnesota Timberwolves acquired the Utah Jazz's 2018 first round pick (the 20th pick) in exchange for Ricky Rubio.[29]

References[]

General
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Specific
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  17. ^ Timberwolves Trade Lazar Hayward to Oklahoma City
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  28. ^ "BULLS ACQUIRE DUNN, LAVINE AND MARKKANEN FROM MINNESOTA". NBA.com. June 22, 2017.
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