The Minnesota Timberwolves have hit on the vast majority of their draft picks in the past five years, early or late. Have we become spoiled to where we have forgotten how rarely the days of drafting busts have been? Not including 2023, let’s look at the past five years of non-lottery picks:
2022 - Wendell Moore (26); Josh Minott (45); Matteo Spagnolo (50)
2021 - None
2020 - Leandro Bolmaro (23); Jaden McDaniels (28)
2019 - Jaylen Nowell (43)
2018 - Josh Okogie (20); Keita Bates-Diop (48)
A bit of a scattershot here, though the majority of them have or are primed for decent NBA careers, with the only obvious miss being Bolmaro (Though I’ll debate it).