NBA News 2011: Timberwolves make 5 draft trades official

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The Minnesota Timberwolves were awfully busy on draft night. So busy, in fact, that it took the NBA until Friday afternoon to approve all the wheeling and dealing that was done by president of basketball operations David Kahn.

The deals that were officially announced:

-The Wolves traded point guard Jonny Flynn, a future second-round pick and the 20th pick - Donatas Motiejunas - to Houston for center Brad Miller, the draft rights to No. 23 pick Nikola Mirotic and No. 38 Chandler Parsons and a future first-round pick.

-Traded Mirotic to the Chicago Bulls for the draft rights to No. 28 Norris Cole and No. 43 Malcolm Lee and cash.

-Traded Cole to the Miami Heat for No. 31 Bojan Bogdanovic, a future second-round pick and cash.

-Traded Bogdanovic to New Jersey for a future second-round pick and cash.

-Traded Parsons back to Houston for cash.

The Timberwolves also traded with Portland for the 57th pick, Tanguy Ngombo of Qatar, but said the deal was still pending and contingent upon a trade the Trail Blazers made earlier in the draft.

All in all, it was a dizzying night for the Wolves after taking Arizona forward Derrick Williams with the No. 2 pick.

http://www.nba.com/2011/news/06/24/minnesota-trades.ap/index.html

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NBA News 2011: Top 15 NBA draft sleepers

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No one recognized Klay Thompson as he chomped on a blackened catfish salad for lunch this past week at the Oakland Grill, located just blocks from the Golden State Warriors’ practice facility. The former Washington State shooting guard said such anonymity has been par for the course while traveling nationally working out for teams in hopes of improving his draft stock.

But come Thursday night at the NBA draft, Thompson’s anonymity could end if he goes from draft sleeper to top-10 pick. The son of ex-NBA player Mychal Thompson leads Yahoo! Sports’ draft sleepers list.

Here’s a look at 14 other potential draft sleepers:

1. Markieff Morris, 6-10, 245 pounds, PF, Kansas
2. Marshon Brooks, 6-5, 200, SF, Providence
3. Tobias Harris, 6-8, 225, SF, Tennessee
4. Darius Morris, 6-4, 190, PG, Michigan
5. Nikola Vucevic, 6-10, 260, C, Southern California
6. Josh Selby, 6-2, 183, PG, Kansas
7. Iman Shumpert, 6-5, 212, PG/SG, Georgia Tech
8. Norris Cole, 6-2, 170, PG, Cleveland State
9. Jimmy Butler, 6-7, 220, SF, Marquette
10. Justin Harper, 6-10, 225, SF-PF, Richmond
11. Charles Jenkins, 6-3, 220, PG-SG, Hofstra
12. Nikola Mirotic, 6-10, 220, C, Real Madrid (Spain)
13. Jeremy Tyler, 6-10, 255, PF-C, Tokyo Apache (Japan)
14. Davis Bertrans, 6-10, 211 pounds, SF, KK Union Olimpija (Slovenia)

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