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The Timberwolves are hosting an NBA Draft Lottery party<\/a> tonight at NBA City.<\/div>\n
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Click here <\/a>for the lottery order and the odds of each team securing the #1 pick.<\/div>\n
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Click here <\/a>for the Timberwolves’ odds of landing any of the top 8 picks.<\/div>\n
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From Don Seeholzer\/Pioneer Press:<\/a><\/div>\n
With the front-office and coaching situations unresolved, rookie forward Kevin Love will represent the team at tonight’s draft lottery.<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/em>

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).<\/em>

Love said in a Friday conference call that he hopes to change the franchise’s lottery fortunes.<\/em><\/p>\n

“I was born on Sept. 7 at 7:07,” he said, “so I consider myself pretty lucky.” <\/em><\/div>\n

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From Jerry Zgoda\/Star Tribune:<\/a><\/div>\n
Twenty seasons on, the Wolves never have done better than they deserved in the blind draw that determines the draft’s top three picks.<\/em>

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.<\/em>

“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.”<\/em><\/div>\n
Why the nail clipper? Well, there’s a story behind that.<\/em><\/div>\n

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?<\/em><\/div>\n
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