I know. I know.

I know.

Mock drafts are ridiculous, speculative, low-hanging Internet fruit.

But we are hungry. Oh how we are hungry. So we picked up the bruised apple off the ground and took a bite — in this case, Chad Ford's latest ESPN.com NBA mock draft.

It's particularly absurd at this point because the draft ORDER hasn't even been determined. We won't know that for another month. And still, it's fun to sit and think … what-if?

So we'll note here that Ford has the Wolves taking Karl-Anthony Towns, the Kentucky center, with the No. 1 overall pick. There's no guarantee the Wolves will do this. There is nothing about this that is factual. But Ford did say nice things about the Wolves:

While the Wolves had the worst record in the NBA, they actually have one of the brightest futures in the league. Andrew Wiggins will likely win the Rookie of the Year Award and has the talent to be a transcendent player. Zach LaVine finished the season strong and won the dunk contest. Ricky Rubio, Shabazz Muhammad and Gorgui Dieng all had their moments, and several other players such as Anthony Bennett and Adreian Payne have strong futures as well. Adding Towns to the team just makes them scarier — an athletic big man who can score inside and outside and protect the rim. In two years, this team is going to be very hard to contend with.

I wouldn't go quite that far with some of those players (Payne is intriguing at best, while Bennett has shown next to nothing). But this much is true: adding more top-end talent to this collection could — could — make the Wolves dangerous in the future.