Just Lucky Enough?

With the seventh overall pick in the 2007 NBA Draft, the Minnesota Timberwolves select...

Tuesday's NBA Draft Lottery went hardly to plan. The three worst teams in the 2006 season (Memphis, Boston, and Milwaukee) were leap-frogged for the first three picks in the '07 draft and a chance at Oden/Durant by Portland, Seattle, and Atlanta respectively and were dropped, in that order, in the substantially less valuable 4, 5, and 6 spots.

But why not the Wolves?

Doesn't it just seem fitting that the team that ended the '06 season with the same record as the Wolves would win a coin flip for an extra ping pong ball and end up with the number one overall pick? Why do things like this always seem to happen to the Wolves? They draft Brandon Roy, trade him for Randy Foye, then watch Roy win the Rookie of the Year honors. They are given the third overall pick behind the picks that got Shaquille O'Neal and Alonzo Mourning. Joe Smith costs the Wolves a hand-full of first round picks for a bunch of worthless seasons out of Joe Smith.

So, in the end, is McHale to blame or just years of bad luck?

I don't know. Are you feeling lucky?

See you on the court,
NAG