Minnesota Timberwolves: Top 30 greatest players of all-time

• Four seasons with Timberwolves (1999-2002)
• Averaged 15.6 points and 8.3 assists with Timberwolves

Terrell Brandon was a two-time All-Star with the Cleveland Cavaliers, being named to the Eastern Conference squad back-to-back times in 1996 and 1997. Then, after a season-plus in Milwaukee, he was shipped to the Wolves in a three-team trade that also sent disgruntled guard Stephon Marbury to the New Jersey Nets.

Brandon was added to a team with budding superstar Kevin Garnett, but it was a team that had just experienced back-to-back first-round exits from the playoffs. The Wolves were looking for a steady, veteran hand at the point guard spot to help guide the 22-year-old Garnett and the rest of the squad to their first postseason series win.

That didn’t happen, of course, as the Wolves didn’t win a series until 2004, two years after Brandon’s retirement due to injury. But Brandon did manage to score 17.1 points per game in 1999-2000, which was the third-highest per-game total in any season in his 11-year career.

Flip Saunders liked his point guards to have the ball in their hands a lot, which meant that Brandon was also able to dish out 8.3 assists per game over his three-plus seasons in Minnesota. He had his most proficient long-range shooting season with the Wolves, too, shooting a career-best 40.2 percent from beyond the arc while launching 1.9 attempts per game in 1999-2000.

Brandon only played through age 31, and while he was officially traded to Atlanta in July of 2003, he hadn’t suited up for a game in over a year and never set foot in the Hawks’ arena.

It was an unfortunate end to a solid career, and may have a had a hand in further delaying the Timberwolves’ playoff success.