Vice Sports has a fascinating look back at a point guard draft blunder the Timberwolves made during the David Kahn era.
Shocking, right?
(No, not the Steph Curry one.)
Instead, this one is about the 2011 draft, when the Wolves traded for the No. 57 pick in the second round but didn't use it on sneaky prospect Isaiah Thomas, who went three picks later to Sacramento with the final pick in the draft.
OK, that doesn't really qualify as a draft miss since nobody knew at the time what a star Thomas would become. But it did provide an entry point for Vice to write, in great detail, about the mystery man the Wolves took instead: Tanguy Ngombo of Qatar.
The short version of the story is that the Wolves scouted Ngombo, an athletic 6-6 wing, and thought he might be a good project player. The problem, they would soon discover, was a discrepancy in his age: was he 21 or was he 27?
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