Minnesota Timberwolves: Top 30 Scorers in Franchise History

#30 – Rashad McCants

It’s generally not a good sign when the 30th-best scorer in franchise history played in parts of just four NBA seasons, but here we are.

Rashad McCants was drafted 14th overall in the 2005 draft after starring at the University of North Carolina. The hope was that he’d be the long-awaited star wing player that the Timberwolves had lacked for essentially the entirety of the franchise’s history.

And nobody ever said that McCants couldn’t score. He averaged 14.9 points per game over 75 games in 2007-08 with the Wolves and shot 36.8 percent from three-point range over his brief NBA career. He didn’t do much other than score — McCants averaged just two rebounds and less than one-and-a-half assists per game — and that was what limited the overall on-court production in over 5,037 NBA minutes.

The attitude and defensive shortcomings, however, were the biggest issues that saw him get shipped to the Sacramento Kings at the trade deadline in 2009 and shortly thereafter, his stateside career came to an end. McCants has been playing in China most recently, but the reputation he had built in NBA circles stuck, fair or not.

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