Minnesota Timberwolves: 3 NBA Draft prospects to consider at No. 33

The Minnesota Timberwolves have three picks in the top 33 of the 2020 NBA Draft. Let’s look at a few options for the Wolves at pick No. 33.

The Minnesota Timberwolves may or may not trade the top selection in the 2020 NBA Draft. We still don’t know what they’ll do at No. 17, either.

But don’t forget that the Wolves also have the third pick of the second round in this year’s draft, pick No. 33 overall.

The second round might be easy to overlook, but there have been plenty of stars picked in the latter half of the draft in recent memory. We’re more than a decade removed from the selection of these names, but DeAndre Jordan and Goran Dragic (2008) and Danny Green and Patty Mills (2009) weren’t bad prizes late in their respective drafts.

The 2012 brought us future All-Stars Draymond Green and Khris Middleton, plus the likes of Jae Crowder and Will Barton, key rotation players on great teams in their own right.

More recently, Nikola Jokic and Joe Harris were both picked in the second round of the 2014 draft. Malcolm Brogdon and Monte Morris are both contributors to a couple of the league’s best teams and were each second-round picks.

Now, the Wolves’ history of picking second-round talent is spotty, to put it kindly. While the jury is still out on Jaylen Nowell (2019 draft) and Keita Bates-Diop (2018, now with the Nuggets), Nikola Pekovic back in 2008 is about the only true success in the past two decades.

Let’s take a look at a list of players who could be on the board at No. 33. Some of them are being picked as early as the low 20’s in mock drafts, however, there is anything but a consensus when it comes to pick No. 20 through the middle stages of the second round.

There is a ton of parity among this range of prospects, and it’s safe to say that of the players we’re going to profile, some will be on the board at No. 33 while others won’t.

Let’s jump into the list.