This. Been wondering this.
But then I remembered..... It's to remind the rubes that their savior is hot trash. Just like the rubes themselves.
Until we landed Lillard, our search for the PG of the Future was almost (I said ALMOST) as futile as theirs. At least we got a couple got a couple good years of a decent PG of the Now in Andre Miller. He's better than anyone the Wolves had manning the point since the Sam Cassell days. That was also the last time they won more than 33 games in a season.
But, it's not for lack of trying. Just look at David Kahn's colossal fuck ups at the PG position alone over the last 3.5 years.
In June, 2009 he used two high lottery picks (5 and 6) on PG of the Future candidates Jonny Flynn and Ricky Rubio. In the process he passed on Stephen Curry, Brandon Jennings, Jrue Holiday, Ty Lawson, Jeff Teague, Eic Maynor and Darren Collison - who have all turned out to be better NBA PGs than Flynn or Rubio. And, when it became obvious that wasting two high lottery picks wasn't enough to the desperate Kahn, he signed 23-year old Ramon Sessions to a 4-year contract. The Wolves won 15 games that season with Flynn and Sessions manning the point.
With his two high lottery picks wasted, and still no decent PG on the roster, the next summer Kahn signed two more veterans, Luke Ridenour and Sebastian Telfair, to fill the gaping PG hole in the Timberwolves line-up. So, two high lottery picks and three free agent signings led them to 17 wins with Ridenour starting and Flynn and Telfair sharing back-up duties.
The summer after that, he finally lured Rubio over from Spain and signed yet another free agent PG (J.J. Barea). That led them to 26 wins and their 3rd straight last place finish.
And guess what, two high lottery picks (at PG, I'm not even counting Wesley Johnson, 4th overall pick in 2010 and Derrick Williams - 2nd over all pick in 2011) and four free agent PG signings later, they're still in last place without a decent PG on their roster.
How does this guy still have a job?
BNM
