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Basketball starts up in less than two weeks; Can you believe it?! The Las Vegas Summer League is where youngsters from all over gather to showcase their skills and impress NBA GM's and coaches.

The Timberwolves roster looks pretty solid, if you ask me:

Minnesota Timberwolves Summer League Roster (Source)

PG - Jonny Flynn, Jeremy Pargo

SG - Wayne Ellington

SF - Wesley Johnson, Lazar Hayward, Mo Charlo

PF - Cedric Simmons, Deon Thompson,

C - Patrick O'Bryant, Greg Stiemsma

Coach -

Minnesota Timberwolves Summer League Schedule - 7/12 vs San Antonio, 7/14 vs Sacramento, 7/16 vs Memphis, 7/17 vs Portland, 7/18 vs Atlanta

 

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I'm going to go through and lay out last night's two main draft acquisitions in a way that readers can try to grasp what Kahn's thinking was when the pick was made.

Here goes nothin':

Wesley Johnson, SF, Syracuse:

After yesterday morning's workout, a 7-foot-1 mammoth lumbered his way into the gym. Awe-struck, I asked around if anyone had seen this guy before. Turns out his name is Cheikh Samb and I had to dig deeper into his past.

Turns out the Samb is from Senegal. He was originally drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers with the 51st pick of the 2006 NBA draft but was traded that day to the Detroit Pistons for shooting guard Maurice Evans. He bounced around to a few different teams including the Clippers, Nuggets and Knicks and never got any legitimate opportunities in the NBA. Samb then went to Europe in 2009 to play for Real Madrid on a one-month contract but after a bumpy ride full of injuries he was released after his contract was up and his agent told him to go back to Senegal to put on weight and get healthy. His career stats in the NBA amount to a whopping 1 ppg and 1.4 rpg.

Today I visited the Target Center to watch a group of wing players work out for the Timberwolves staff. Among the bunch was Paul George, Damion James, Ryan Wittman and Mikhail Torrance. Here's what I walked away with:

Paul George:

I will admit that I have never actually seen George play before today. Obviously the biggest name of the group, all eyes were on this 6-foot-9 mammoth with tentacles for arms. He's as lanky as a human being can get but by no means was he skinny and weak; his lean yet slender physique was banging underneath with the Piston bad boy himself Bill Laimbeer.