Minnesota Timberwolves: Top 30 greatest players of all-time

• Three seasons with Timberwolves (2010-13)
• Averaged 11.7 points and 4.6 assists with Timberwolves

Luke Ridnour was a signature signing of the David Kahn era, as the largely clueless front office executive seemingly collected point guards and diminutive scoring guards.

He was signed only a summer after the Wolves drafted Ricky Rubio (though the Spaniard had not yet come stateside), Jonny Flynn and Wayne Ellington and the year before the Timberwolves added J.J. Barea.

But Ridnour was rock-solid for some bad Wolves teams, playing in 71 games and starting 66 in he final year of the reign of head coach Kurt Rambis, appearing in 53 games in the lockout-shortened 2011-12 season with Rick Adelman as coach, and starting all 82 games for Adelman the following year.

Ridnour was asked to play plenty of point guard early on with the Wolves, but with the arrival of Rubio, Ridnour shifted over to play the two-spot. It was always an issue defensively, but Ridnour provided a scoring element that the Wolves’ backcourt otherwise lacked.

Despite having a reputation as a shooter, Ridnour’s career 3-point mark was just 34.9 percent, although he shot 44 percent in his first year as a Wolf. In his Wolves career, he hit on 35.8 percent of his threes. He was also known for his floater game, which came up big in a big spot.

Ridnour was dealt as part of the sign-and-trade that brought Kevin Martin to the Timberwolves in the summer of 2013. He split a season with the Bucks and Hornets before finishing his career in 2014-15 with the Orlando Magic.

Ridnour was never a flashy player, outside of the game-winning buzzer-beater, but was a steady, effective scorer on teams that struggled to put the ball in the basket efficiently.