{"id":230932,"date":"2009-06-25T23:03:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T23:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2009\/06\/25\/wolves-draft-updates\/"},"modified":"2009-06-25T23:03:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T23:03:46","slug":"wolves-draft-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/wolves-draft-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves Select Ricky Rubio, Jonny Flynn, Wayne Ellington"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Timberwolves selected Spanish point guard Ricky Rubio with the fifth pick of the draft, and Syracuse point guard Jonny Flynn with the sixth pick. <\/strong>New York is rumored to be hot on Rubio’s trail, trade-wise.<\/p>\n At #18, they picked North Carolina PG Ty Lawson, but they will trade him to Denver<\/a> for a first-round pick from Charlotte, with the pick coming in one of the next five years. <\/strong><\/p>\n That pick is protected as follows:<\/p>\n With the 28th pick, the Timberwolves selected shooting guard Wayne Ellington, from North Carolina<\/strong>. Draft Express had a throwaway report that Minnesota had also traded Ellington to Denver, but as of the end of the draft this has been reported nowhere else.<\/p>\n With the 45th pick, the Wolves took point guard Nick Calathes from Florida. <\/strong>Reports are that the Wolves will trade Calathes to Dallas for future cash and draft considerations. That’s as attributed to a league executive<\/a>.<\/p>\n With the 47th pick, Minnesota selected Dutch forward Henk Norel, who immediately has one of the best names of any Wolves draftee. <\/strong> He played with Rubio for DKV Joventut this year.\u00a0 We won’t be seeing Norel anytime soon – three years at least.<\/p>\n As of 11:00pm Central time, the Wolves will hold onto Rubio (5), Flynn (6), and Ellington (28).\u00a0 Norel (47) will play in Europe, and the team has traded Ty Lawson (18) and Nick Calathes (45).<\/span><\/p>\n Click “Read More” to see a night’s worth of updates, under the cut.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 9:15 – RUMOR MILL<\/a><\/strong>: “The New York Knicks are working hard to cut a deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves to acquire guard Ricky Rubio…. <\/span><\/span>One league GM said a deal ‘isn\u2019t 100 percent,’ but likely. <\/span><\/span>Timberwolves officials are thus far resisting the advances of the Knicks and the wishes of the player\u2019s agent and insisting that Rubio will stay in Minnesota.”\u00a0 Thanks to Stu for the link. Trading Rubio would take pretty much all of the air out of this draft; personally, I’d go from “happy” to “unhappy” in a flash.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 9:10<\/strong> – Jay Bilas calls Wayne Ellington<\/strong>, the Wolves’ fourth pick, “a very good get” in this draft.\u00a0 He’s a junior guard out of UNC.<\/p>\n 9:05<\/strong> – The Wolves are back on the clock… and you get the feeling that, if they could pass out of the first round, they would.<\/p>\n 8:50<\/strong> – BJ Mullens<\/strong> is off the board at #24 – and so can be somebody else’s continuously disappointing project, rather than ours.\u00a0 That said, I have no idea what the Wolves are now planning at #28.\u00a0 My wild guess: Somebody from overseas that’s planning to stay overseas, so they don’t have to pay three first-rounders.<\/p>\n\n