The Timberwolves are hosting an NBA Draft Lottery party tonight at NBA City.
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With the front-office and coaching situations unresolved, rookie forward Kevin Love will represent the team at tonight’s draft lottery.
At 24-58, the Wolves had the fifth-worst record in the NBA and have a 7.6 percent chance of winning the top pick in the June 25 draft.
Minnesota has never picked higher than third, but in the 15-year history of the current lottery system, teams with the fifth-best odds actually have won more times (three) than the lottery favorites (two).
Love said in a Friday conference call that he hopes to change the franchise’s lottery fortunes.
“I was born on Sept. 7 at 7:07,” he said, “so I consider myself pretty lucky.”
Twenty seasons on, the Wolves never have done better than they deserved in the blind draw that determines the draft’s top three picks.
So that’s why rookie Kevin Love figures this time he’ll take a nail clipper with him into the room where his franchise’s fate once again is decided.
“All the Timberwolves media people told me to bring a lucky charm, but that didn’t work for Hoiberg last year,” Love said, referring to a lottery when the Wolves were slotted for the third pick and ended up with exactly that. “So I have to try to figure something out.”
So that’s why rookie Kevin Love figures this time he’ll take a nail clipper with him into the room where his franchise’s fate once again is decided.
“All the Timberwolves media people told me to bring a lucky charm, but that didn’t work for Hoiberg last year,” Love said, referring to a lottery when the Wolves were slotted for the third pick and ended up with exactly that. “So I have to try to figure something out.”
Why the nail clipper? Well, there’s a story behind that.
Love has been in Los Angeles since the season ended, resting and now starting to get ready for next season. He’s been shooting 500 to 600 jump shots a day, doing yoga and strength training. He also is working with a physical therapist and, at the suggestion of the people he’s staying with, has gone to a Beverly Hills salon for a … manicure?
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