Minnesota won the NBA draft lottery Thursday night, with Golden State, Charlotte and Chicago rounding out the top four.
The Minnesota Timberwolves won the 2020 NBA draft lottery Thursday night and the right to the first pick in the draft later this year. The Timberwolves, who ended the season with the league’s third-worst record, will be followed by the Golden State Warriors — who ended the season with the worst record — the Charlotte Hornets and the Chicago Bulls. While the two teams that made significant jumps were the Bulls, who moved up from the seventh lottery position, and the Hornets, who moved up from eighth, Minnesota gets the top pick to pair with D’Angelo Russell and Karl-Anthony Towns. And the Warriors now have a significant trade chip to add to their roster. “Wow. Super exciting,” Russell said in an interview with ESPN’s Rachel Nichols after the lottery was complete. “I trust [general manager] Gersson [Rosas] and [coach] Ryan [Saunders] and all those guys making Minnesota a home for guys coming up, and even All-Star guys coming in. “The bar is set now, and we’re excited to get it going.” Instead of the usual gathering of representatives from the 14 teams participating in the lottery,this year’s lottery drawing was done virtually, with all 14 teams represented in a video teleconference as the pingpong balls were drawn in Secaucus, New Jersey, for who will pick where in the draft, which is scheduled to take place Oct.
