NBA Draft 2019: Top 3 players for Minnesota Timbervolves to pick at No. 11
By Alex Weber
Stuck in the NBA’s modern wasteland — between low-seed playoff contention and re-rebuilding – Minnesota Timberwolves’s front office has a difficult choice ahead of them in the 2019 NBA Draft.
Minnesota. The land of burly bearded lumberjacks and historically mediocre basketball, or sports in general for that matter. For mid-market cities across America, the task of climbing out of a sports abyss proves a gutwrenching process over and over again.
Whether it’s losing the best player in the history of the franchise to Boston and watching him win a title from the couch instead of the bleachers, or having the next superstar again swiped by a future title-winner, or seeing the two consecutive NBA Draft NUMBER ONE picks said superstar was traded for turn into notorious draft whiffs. The laundry list of unbearable basketball experiences in Minnesota doesn’t end there, and the Twins and Vikings aren’t solving emotional hardship either.
I would be a moron to even suggest the Minnesota Timberwolves are on the brink of contention–in fact, they’re increasingly far from it. However, the annual rookie pick-em shoots adrenaline into the veins of even the wretchedly cursed fanbases. Although the 2019 NBA Draft is viewed by the masses as inferior, there are a host of intriguing prospects in Minnesota’s drafting range, and I’ll take a look at three of them.