Timberwolves Paying For Their Own Stupidity

Like most NBA General Managers, Minnesota's David Kahn isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. From a basketball perspective, you can't fault him for wanting a guy like Ricky Rubio running his team but from a logical perspective, his plan - and plans - have been flawed.

If you were a betting man, you probably wouldn't have predicted that the Timberwolves would end up with Rubio in the draft. Then again, you probably wouldn't have predicted that the Timberwolves would have drafted three point guards in the first round of the NBA Draft. 

Kahn's strategy looked messy from the start. It looked like he was unprepared for all of the scenarios, one of them being Ricky Rubio still being on the board.

Now Kahn has ended up wasting a pick on a player that won't come over for a couple of years, which is two years of rebuilding that the Wolves don't have.

As the general manager, Kahn had to secure Rubio's arrival before he made the  pick. In this case, he shot first, but then we he started asking questions, he realized that the answers were not the ones he wanted to here.

At this point, the best way for the Timberwolves to clean up this mess is to trade Rubio to New York, which is obviously where he wants to play, and get something back for him.

Kahn made the mistake but this isn't Josh McDaniels versus Jay Cutler. Rubio is in fact being a baby but it's time for Kahn to be the bigger man and move on. Rubio won't be playing for the Timberwolves this year and he wont' be playing for them in two years from now. Set him free and move on.