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Ranking the NBA’s small market teams

By Jonah Kubicek

Tim Duncan, San Antonio Spurscredit (Robert Sullivan /AFP via Getty Images)
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Kevin Garnett, Minnesota Timberwolves
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#15: Minnesota Timberwolves

Are the Minnesota Timberwolves the worst team in all four major sports? They have the worst winning percentage in NBA history at .399, have never made a Finals, and after adding Rudy Gobert this past offseason nobody is even considering taking them seriously. That’s how bad they are.

In recent years they’ve had three first-overall picks. They used them on Andrew Wiggins, Anthony Edwards, and Karl-Anthony Towns. Both were the obvious choices at the time, but Wiggins never lived up to the hype and could be considered a bust. Towns, on the other hand, is a three-time All-Star and two-time All-NBA player. He’s just not a winner. It’s too early to make any judgments on Edwards, but the Twin Cities seem to be a place where decent players go to be forgotten about.

The Wolves also had Kevin Garnett for 12 seasons before he finally won with the Boston Celtics. He won the 2004 league MVP award, but that’s really the only hardware the franchise can claim. During his tenure, Garnett had spats with ownership before finding immediate success elsewhere. Minnesota and the midwest are ruled by hockey and football, and the fans have forgotten about the Wolves. They are consistently among the bottom in league attendance, probably because the product is just not worth paying to see.