Yes we Kahn!

I already like Kahn...he got rid of McHale. However, Kahn needs this Thursday night's draft to prove that this organization (mostly Glen Taylor) means basketball, not business. The last few years, the draft has served as a way to skim down on cost for Taylor and company:

• Wolves draft Brandon Roy at number 6 in 2006...only to trade him down to Portland for the draft rights of Randy Foye. We would likely still have Kevin Garnett on our team if we would have kept Brandon Roy.


• Wolves draft O.J. Mayo at number 3 in 2008...only to trade him to Memphis in exchange of Kevin Love and other spare parts.


• During the same draft night...after trading away a much needed wing player (O.J. Mayo), they gift wrapped their 2nd round pick Mario Chalmers (another much needed wing player) and ship him off to Miami for some more cash.

The money they are saving in making the moves above, doesn't even come close to the money they are potentially losing on the ticket sales, merchandise sales, etc if they would've standed pat and made their selections without financial interest as a factor on draft night.

You should worry where you sit financially when you are calculating how to pay those overvalued, underperforming free agents (Troy Hudson, Trenton Hassell, Mark Blount, Mike James, Mark Madsen etc) that you sign to ridiculous contracts that puts your franchise in this position in the first place.

SBG