With the fifth pick in the 2009 NBA Draft, the Minnesota Timberwolves select ... Ricky Rubio.
With the sixth pick in the 2009 NBA Draft, the Minnesota Timberwolves select ... Jonny Flynn.
With the seventh pick in the 2009 NBA Draft, the Golden State Warriors select ... Stephen Curry.
And the rest is history.
Why did Minnesota pass on Curry twice?
Former Timberwolves GM David Kahn explained in a Sports Illustrated article released on Monday.
"In 2009, just days after my May 22 hiring as President of Basketball Operations for the Minnesota Timberwolves, the agent for Steph Curry told me that Steph’s father, Dell, did not want his son to be drafted by Minnesota—“No offense,” as I recall Jeff Austin, his agent saying to me at the Chicago draft combine.