By Eurohoops team / info@eurohoops.net
The Minnesota Timberwolves won the NBA Draft lottery that took place on Thursday and have the right to select the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft happening later in 2020.
The draft lottery, which was originally scheduled to take place in May but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic determines the future of the teams hoping for a new star player to build on.
The three teams who finished with the league’s worst records each had a 14% chance of winning the No. 1 pick in the lottery: the Golden State Warriors (15-50), the Cleveland Cavaliers (19-46) and the Minnesota Timberwolves (19-45), and the latter’s odds prevailed, winning the No. 1 pick for the NBA draft that is planned to take place October 16.
“There’s a lot of steps left in this journey for us, but today was a significant one,” Timberwolves president of basketball operations Gersson Rosas said following the lottery. “We’re excited about the potential level of player that we can add to our organization, but at the same time, we are going to be very aggressive and look at every avenue to improve this team. We have two young stars in Karl-Anthony Towns and D’Angelo Russell that we’re building this together [with]. We’ve got a great young core that’s young and being one of the youngest, if not the youngest, team in the NBA. We have a lot of upside. But this allows us to take a major step in talent acquisition, whether it’s in the draft or the trade market, whatever the case may be. It really positions us well moving forward”.