Kevin McHale, vice president of Timberwolves basketball, and coach Flip Saunders looked back to the 1995 draft when they gambled by taking high school senior Kevin Garnett, who turned into an NBA star.

"We were over at the University of Illinois-Chicago Circle and there were four guys we were high on -- Joe Smith, Jerry Stackhouse, Rasheed Wallace, and Antonio McDyess, all college players," Saunders said.

"What we were going to do was tell other NBA representatives on hand that we're going to take this high school kid so everyone would get excited, and one of those guys ahead might take the high school kid, and then one of those other guys would fall to us.

"Well, after about five minutes of watching Garnett, I elbowed Kevin. I said, 'Kevin, we better not tell anybody; we better hope this kid's there at number five.' It was about 115 degrees in the gym, he was in his shorts, he was sweating, he went for about 45 minutes, unbelievable work ethic, and you could see at that time the things he did, because of how hard he worked, that he was going to be great player."