One of the best yet most infuriating persistent rumors about one of worst and most infuriating draft missteps in Minnesota history — David Kahn passing on Steph Curry in 2009 — is that the Wolves were worried that Curry, who loves to golf, wouldn’t want to play for an NBA team in a cold-weather state where he couldn’t play golf during the season.
Curry actually brought this up in 2014 in an interview with the Star Tribune’s Jerry Zgoda, saying “Somebody told me one of David Kahn’s excuses for not drafting me is I wouldn’t be happy playing there because the weather is not golf-friendly.