The Minnesota TImberwolves have been in the lottery 14 times in 21 years. They've had one of the two worst records in the NBA in five of 21 years. The odds are overwhelming that at some point they'd get a top three pick in the NBA draft. Yet on Tuesday, the T-Wolves continued their streak of never improving even one spot in the draft order.

They've basically had the worst pick possible every year. And five of those years they finished with the first or second-worst record in the NBA (a few of the years they were tied for second). One estimate of the numbers says the T-Wolves should have had a 96.1 percent chance of landing a top-two pick before last night. And since the NBA changed the system so that those with the top three worst records could finish no worse than fourth, the T-Wolves have finished fourth every time they've been in the top three. Just once you'd think they'd move from like 4th to 3rd or something.

Even Evan Turnertweeted that he felt bad for Minnesota.

I'm not sure there's a streak in sports that has worse luck. Sure, the Cubs have gone 100+ years without winning the World Series, but there's a lot of skill involved in that streak. No player has shot four rounds under 70 at the Masters, but it takes serious skill to shoot in the 60s. This is just pure math and ping pong balls. And maybe some kind of conspiracy. [How much longer can this go on before it statistically becomes fraud? Kind of like in Casino when a guy hits two jackpots in the slots within a few minutes. I'm sure statistically it's not close, but it seems to be getting there.]

The T-Wolves should really just demand that a rule be implemented that if you go 0-for-14 and 0-for-5 when in the top two worst records, you get some kind of special card to play in a year when you finish with one of the three worst records to be able to draft at that spot. Unfortunately, they'd probably have to burn that card next year thanks to their latest bad luck.