Just play that bubbly, happy music. Get excited. There are endless opportunities to change your fortune. To make a splash. To move some weight. To shake things up.

According to Timberwolves.com, Flip Saunders is open to all those things.

“We’re going to exhaust every opportunity to make this team better, whether it’s through trades, getting lucky (and having a good player fall to them at 9),” Saunders said. “I don’t think anybody expected when Portland was picking at 6 last year that they’d have the unanimous rookie of the year.”

“I’m not saying it wouldn’t be nice to be in the top three. I’d love to be in the top three,” Saunders said. “It’s not where I’m looking to say where our franchise is happy we didn’t’ get in the top there. But with the players that we have, adding through free agency or trades and guys getting healthier, that’s how we’re going to make our jump next year.”

Saunders said unlike the widely popularized moves in the NFL Draft, it’s highly unlikely in the NBA to package those two first rounders to move up to a top three spot. Instead, the question Saunders will ponder is if there is a situation where the No. 9 pick and a player on the current roster could help them move upward. He said teams are not in deal-making mode—teams are instead in Draft mode and will see if there is a player they fall in love with. He said the Wolves, too, have some players they’re taking a hard look at.

So, moving anyone not named Kevin Love, Ricky Rubio and Nikola Pekovic, let’s make a deal. According to Sam Amico’s worthless rumormongering, there’s this…

The Los Angeles Lakers and Atlanta Hawks are said to be two such teams, with both supposedly exploring the idea of improving their draft position.

As for the Lakers, their lone pick doesn’t come until midway through the second round (No. 48 overall). But, as usual, they’re supposedly willing to trade big man Pau Gasol in attempt to get younger. That may mean obtaining a pick, a younger player and a contract.

Again, all of this is just speculation at the moment, and it may result in nothing at the end. And goodness knows, these are the type of discussions among GMs and execs that will take place all the way through the draft.

Connect the dots, people. Connect them and find an overpriced third big for the Wolves.

April 26, 2013; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Los Angeles Lakers power forward Pau Gasol (16) reacts during the first half in game three of the first round of the 2013 NBA playoffs at Staples Center. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports

No improvement of your lot, if you’re the Minnesota Timberwolves. You fought gallantly in March, putting your best foot forward and ignoring the implosions of previous years. What good did all that non-tanking karma do you? You got what you deserved. And, so… with the number nine pick in the 2013 NBA Draft, the Minnesota Timberwolves elect to do what, exactly?

Stay put? Trade up? Trade out? There are options. Those are them.

Mar 24, 2013; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Injured Minnesota Timberwolves power forward Kevin Love wearing street clothes looks on in the fourth quarter against the Chicago Bulls at Target Center. Bulls won 104-97. Mandatory Credit: Greg Smith-USA TODAY Sports

Should the Wolves accept their fate, they can choose between the KCP and McCollum leftover shooting guard combo platter, should McCollum’s DAZZLING interviews at the combine in Chicago not vault him up the ranks of so many mock drafts as to have the Bobcats over-thinking things, the odds are one of them will still be around come the ninth pick. But is that good enough for a Rick Adelman team hellbent on turning this thing around after two years of incompetence and ill-fated health dashing all… blah blah fatalistic blah?

Well, if you don’t want to wait around, there are moves to be made. Rumors have it, the Lakers are more than a little interested in moving into the lottery. There’s a deal to be explored there and the pieces are begging to pack their bags.

Or, if Glen Taylor is unwilling to part with the highest draft pick in Wolves history (hint: not Kevin Love), there is more to be had in draft pick dealings. Just think: what did the Wolves have to give up for their best perimeter threat last year? Hint: it was a first rounder — but it was a first rounder of 9 pick’s lesser value than the one the Wolves just found out they had Tuesday night.