On draft day, Timberwolves fans ready to embrace change wondered what the new president of basketball operations would do with four first-round picks that night.

On the day after, they still wondered: Just what he had done?

A young, losing team built around two promising power forwards mystifyingly selected two point guards with the fifth and sixth picks in David Kahn's first draft on the job.

In drafting first Spanish guard Ricky Rubio and Syracuse's Jonny Flynn in a matter of moments, Kahn theoretically rebuilt a backcourt essentially cleared two days earlier by trading Randy Foye and Mike Miller and their expiring contracts to Washington for three players and the fifth pick he used to pick Rubio, who fell after Memphis took Hasheem Thabeet second, Oklahoma ...More