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Team record: 17-65, 20.7% win percentage
The winner of Most Improved Player in 2010-11, future Hall-of-Famer Kevin Love had his breakout season in his third NBA campaign, averaging 20.2 points, a league-leading 15.2 rebounds and 2.5 assists while shooting 41.7 percent from three.
Unfortunately for Minnesota Timberwolves fans, Love’s incredibly impressive campaign, one in which he also earned All-Star honors, wasn’t enough for the team to be any good that year, as the team went 17-65 for a 20.7 percent win rate, which ultimately led to then-head coach Kurt Rambis getting fired.
Of course, Rambis wasn’t exactly set up for success, as the second-leading scorer on the Wolves that season was Michael Beasley and the third was Luke Ridnour with the team still slowly recovering from the departure of team legend Kevin Garnett in 2007-08. A slew of yearly draft night errors by then-head shot-caller David Kahn did not help matters, either.
For a glimpse into how bad the Wolves were in 2010-11, Love was the only player on the team with a positive box plus/minus on the season. Ridnour and Anthony Tolliver were +0.0s and everyone else on the roster was a negative.
Love actually ranked 13th league-wide in BPM that year, as well as 13th in VORP and Top 10 in Win Shares, making it almost impressive that Minnesota was as bad as it was despite having an All-NBA-level big man leading the way.
