{"id":206256,"date":"2020-08-21T06:51:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T11:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=206256"},"modified":"2020-08-21T14:42:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T19:42:40","slug":"wolves-win-nba-draft-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=206256","title":{"rendered":"MN Timberwolves win NBA Draft Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) \u2014 The Minnesota Timberwolves have won the NBA draft lottery and will have the first pick in the October 16 draft.<\/p>\n<p>The Timberwolves were 19-45 this season, marking the 14th time in 15 years that they failed to make the playoffs and finished with a losing record.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors hold the No. 2 pick, the Hornets got the No. 3 selection and the Bulls will choose fourth. Charlotte and Chicago both bucked some odds to move into the upper echelon.<\/p>\n<p>The lottery was conducted virtually because of the pandemic, with NBA officials doing the actual draw in Secaucus, New Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) \u2014 The Minnesota Timberwolves have won the NBA draft lottery and will have the first pick in the October 16 draft. The Timberwolves were 19-45 this season, marking the 14th time in 15 years that they failed to make the playoffs and finished with a losing record. The Warriors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206256"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206310,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206256\/revisions\/206310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}