This feels really weird.

Everyone wants to talk about the Timberwolves.

Huh?

This blog is getting hundreds and hundreds of postings to every topic posting.

I got more than 1,000 questions posed to me in an hour’s live chat the other day.

Our web traffic is outdistancing Vikings stuff.

Everybody is excited, which just goes to show how much hunger there was for change with this organization.

Finally, people feel there is a reason to hope.

Now let’s see if David Kahn can deliver.

I had a Wolves source this morning tell me Kahn is “shopping everybody hard” and that Tuesday’s trade with Washington probably is just the start.

It could get crazy.

The deal to watch out for is a swap with of picks with Oklahoma City to get to No. 3 so the Wolves can take Ricky Rubio.

It’d involve their No. 5 or 6 and perhaps another first rounder better than the Wolves’ No. 18, which would require them to deal the rights to Pekovic or another asset and their 18th to get up higher in the first round.

Kahn said on the Dan Patrick radio show this morning that he will not trade Kevin Love.

He said in time it might be proven that the Wolves do have too much of one thing with both Al Jefferson and Love, but said the team needs to let those two guys play together and give the situation “time to breathe.”

He said eventually the Wolves might have to trade one of them, but “for now, I love both kids, I think they’re driven and we want them here.”

He said he thinks Love is “driven to greatness.”

The NBA has an early draft-day trade deadline today at 1 p.m. Central, so if deals aren’t done then, they won’t be until made until the draft commences tonight.

Chad Ford just posted something about the Rockets using Tracy McGrady’s massive expiring $23.2 million contract and Aaron Brooks’  buzz to get one of the Timberwolves’ lottery picks, but the Wolves would have to deal about their whole team now, wouldn’t they, to make the salaries work?

You’re gonna hear all kinds of things today, and who knows, a lot of it could come true…

I see a lot of mock drafts today have the Wolves drafting James Harden with one of their two top picks and Tyreke Evans dropping down in the draft.

No way, I say.

There are some in the basketball operations office who think Harden, Arizona State’s sophomore guard, might be the second best player in the draft, but I don’t think Kahn shares that opinion and that’s all that matters at this point.

Once projected as high as No. 2, I could see Harden be one of the guys who falls in this draft if the Thunder take Rubio third.

If I had to rank the Wolves’ wish list, I’d go this way:

1. Rubio

2. Thabeet

3. Evans

4. Flynn or Curry

I think the Wolves really like Flynn, but Curry could enter the picture because of his shooting, particularly if Evans is still there at 5.

If the Wolves keep both top picks, I think their choices will be shaped by what guards they believe will play best together.

Two players I think everybody will look back and wonder why they weren’t taken higher: Ty Lawson and Earl Clark.

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