A year ago, the Timberwolves got busy on draft night, parlaying the 20th overall pick into five cascading trades that ultimately brought them UCLA guard Malcolm Lee, Memphis' 2013 first-round pick, a couple of future second-round picks and four wads of cash.
On Thursday, by comparison, they could have put their collective feet up on the desk and ordered in pizza while they waited almost all night before choosing Purdue forward Robbie Hummel with the 58th pick, third from last in the second round.
The Wolves did their draft work Monday night and Tuesday morning, when they finalized a trade with Houston that sent Thursday's 18th pick away for 24-year-old swingman Chase Budinger.
On Thursday, they made proposals to obtain a first-round pick but didn't succeed, waiting instead for more than four hours while New Orleans took Kentucky forward Anthony Davis first overall and the Rockets selected Kentucky forward Terrence Jones with that 18th pick they got from the Wolves.
While teams such as Cleveland and Philadelphia wheeled and dealed either to move up in the first round or obtain an extra pick, the Wolves worked the phones but ultimately sat out the first round and sat tight at 58 after they were unable to move up in the second.
As 11 p.m. approached, they took Hummel, a 6-8 forward who tore his anterior cruciate ligament twice within eight months during his collegiate career, the first time at Williams Arena during a February 2010 game against the Gophers.
Both Hummel, who was All-Big Ten first team three times, and the Boilermakers were rolling when he planted his foot, slipped and felt the ACL tear.
"It'd be great," he said about the prospect of playing for the Wolves after a pre-draft workout at Target Center last month. "I have a lot of family up here. Obviously Williams Arena is kind of a sore spot for me, but I wouldn't mind it."