There team actually looks pretty good though. They have a good pg in Rubio, an instant offense guy off the bench in shabazz and LaVine has looked very good since the AS break. They also have a few guys who are good rotation players in Dieng/Payne. This draft is important for them. If they can get one of Towns/Okafor/ or Russell they are gold espiscially one of the bigs. Getting one of those guys will shift Rubio to there 3rd best player while having wiggins and the draft pick be the 1/2 scorers.
They are gold with just one more player? They've won just 16 games this season while getting one of the better rookie performances in the past 10 years. I think they're more than one player away.
They owe Rubio 55 million over the next 4 seasons. That's why they always end up sucking. They constantly overpay guys they should either let go entirely or head to RFA and get a market rate. What team pays Rubio that amount of money? He's played 202 games in 4 seasons and they paid him like an elite young player. Rubio will be the 7th highest paid PG in the league next season, just barely behind Kyrie at 13.75 million. His career averages are 10.2 PTS, 8.2 AST, 4.3 rebounds on 36.7% shooting (31.4% from 3). He has an EFG of 39.9%. To pay that guy max money is insane.
They already have 56 million committed next season and that's with KG coming off the books. Once you factor in rookie contracts, they're pretty much locked in to their current roster, which is a collection of underachieving / overpriced talent.
I'm not saying that can't improve but their last 8 #1 picks were:
OJ Mayo (#3 overall)
Ricky Rubio (#5 overall)
Jonny Flynn (#6 overall)
Wayne Ellington (#28 overall)
Wesley Johnson (#4 overall)
Lazar Haywood (#30 overall)
Derrick Williams (#2 overall)
Zach Lavine (#13 overall)
That is a steaming, hot pile of garbage. They have Ricky Rubio to show for 4 top 5 selections and they're paying him max money. I hope they figure it out but after squandering KG and Love's early careers, I have zero confidence they'll hold on to AW long term. Eventually he'll want out because they can't get any traction, just like their two other stars did.