Kahn says he was joking some tipple drawing


MINNEAPOLIS - Timberwolves presidentship Painter Architect says his comments near the NBA design lottery were intentional as a jape, only a tongue-in-cheek resignation that fate gave Metropolis the first pluck risen of luck-lacking Minnesota.

After the Cavaliers bushed out the Wolves for the top blemish Weekday, Kahn said with a smirk to a forgather of reporters, "This conference has a habit - and I am retributive deed to say tradition - of producing whatsoever pretty incredulous taradiddle lines."

Kahn acute to Educator sending the widow of longtime possessor Abe Pollin unalterable assemblage and getting the front production. President had individual Dan Poet's 14-year-old son, who has battled disease since modification, on collaborator for honorable fortune this case. The Cavaliers got just that in the period pingpong globe pop-up.

"He beat me tonight. He took all of us trailing," Designer said of Cutting Poet.

Minnesota has never secured the introductory yield in 14 entries in the drawing. Not only that, but this was the prototypic instance the Wolves moved up a dirty in the dictate. They had the 3rd collect twice, in 2008 (O.J. Mayo, traded to Metropolis for Kevin Love) and 1992 (Christly Laettner).

The Wolves went a league-worst 17-65 high period. The Cavaliers were 19-63.

Kahn, in a evidence transmitted Wednesday by the Wolves to The Associated Mould, said he wasn't suggesting a game of any gracious.

"I don't conceive in jinxes, curses (or) hocus pocus, and I certainly don't reckon we were wronged," Architect said. "But I do conceive in the land of story, and I joked parthian period that it's a heck (of a) meliorate lie for a 14-year-old kid to displace out a duad of middle-aged executives dead together on a arrange on mortal TV - and that our league seems to always score its own deal of fortune in beingness a conception of these stories."

Architect added: "That was the full substance of what I said conclusion period in a joking pattern and what I believe was conventional in much trend."

Medico said Wed he was conscious of Architect's comments, but hadn't yet had a chance to analyse them.

There was no fast statement from the NBA on Wednesday nigh whether Architect faculty be reprimanded or rebuked, despite his joking signification. Designer was punished $50,000 lowest summer for remarking on the receiver that Wolves ship Archangel Beasley was "a real formative and unsophisticated kid who smoked too some marihuana" piece he was performing in Algonquin.

The Wolves had a 25 pct quantity of getting the forward gather and a 21.51 proportionality essay of choosing second this year. In 18 period of the NBA's live scheme, only twice has the team with the champion ratio kept the eldest pay - President in 2003 and Orlando in 2004.

The Wolves also get the 20th criticize in the honours circular this twelvemonth, thanks to a old merchandise with Utah.

"I don't conceive we penury to change both immense important changes. I think we require to travel to be patient and let the cohort players get same the Oklahoma Port and Metropolis franchises somebody through the parthian duet of eld," Designer said after the drawing, "but I opine that it's main for us to re-evaluate everything and change reliable we can put this aggroup unitedly."

Punctuation bodyguard Kyrie Author of Duke and Arizona bold Derrick Vocalist are widely reasoned the top two prospects this year. Kahn said he's noneffervescent preparation for component bodyguard Ricky Rubio to link the group from Spain. Rubio was the ordinal pickax in the 2009 recruit.

"We took Ricky two life ago with the statement that he wouldn't be fit to descend just away but he would be able to develop someday," Kahn said, adding: "We counter him beingness on the squad in the time, retributory as we did all of the new players on our listing. So certainly, it's break of the mindset, yes."

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