Minnesota Timberwolves’ president David Kahn explains his witty comments on NBA draft lottery
The Minnesota Timberwolves’ president David Kahn has come in the open about his comments on 2011 NBA draft lottery. Kahn said his comments were not to disgrace the event instead he intended them as a joke. Despite having very little
probability, the Cleveland Cavaliers won this year’s NBA draft lottery with No.1 pick beating-out the Timberwolves on Tuesday night.
The Wolves’ president was naturally not impressed and had said, "This league has a habit, and I am just going to say habit, of producing some pretty incredible story lines, Last year it was Abe Pollin's widow and this year it was
a 14-year-old boy and the only thing we have in common is we have both been bar mitzvahed. We were done. I told Kevin: 'We're toast.' This is not happening for us and I was right.”
Kahn was talking about the Cleveland Cavaliers’ owner Dan Gilbert’s child Nick Gilbert who proved to be a lucky charm for his father.
Kahn officially sent a statement to the press in which he explained that he was not alleging the NBA on any conspiracy in draft lottery.
"I don't believe in jinxes, curses (or) hocus pocus, and I certainly don't think we were wronged, But I do believe in the power of story, and I joked last night that it's a heck (of a) better story for a 14-year-old kid to beat
out a couple of middle-aged executives standing together on a stage on national TV - and that our league seems to always have its own share of luck in being a part of these stories.”
The National Basketball Association (NBA) has not yet taken any action against Kahn’s aggravating comments as yet. David Kahn has experienced $50,000 fined in last summer when he commented on Michael Beasley who was playing in
the Miami Heat. He has said. "a very young and immature kid who smoked too much marijuana". And months after that Beasley landed in his own franchise.
The Minnesota Timberwolves’s chances were at 25 percent to get the overall first pick but they ended up winning second. They also have the 20th
pick in the first round. The Duke Blue Devils’ Kyrie Irving and Arizona Wildcats’ Derrick Williams are the best prospects in this year’s draft, but Kahn is more interested in guard Ricky Rubio and planning for his inclusion in the Wolves’ roster from
Spain. Minnesota Timberwolves drafted Rubio fifth in 2009 NBA draft.
Tags: