The Wolves picked Mario Chalmers for the Heat in a pre-arranged deal in the second round of the 2008 NBA draft that came 10 minutes too early, before the Memphis Grizzlies telephoned near the end of the draft's first round and unexpectedly agreed to complete a blockbuster eight-player deal that swapped O.J. Mayo for Kevin Love.

Big-man prospects Darrell Arthur, Donte Greene, and Kostas Koufos had just disappeared from the draft board when the Wolves contemplated selecting Chalmers for themselves and deferred because they already presumably had combo guards Mayo, Randy Foye, and Marko Jaric on their roster and intended to re-sign free agent Sebastian Telfair.

"At that point, I just said I don't want to take a guy we'll have to cut because of numbers," said Wolves' Coach Kevin McHale, then the team's vice president of basketball operations. "Right after we said we'd do the deal with Miami, Memphis called, and we said to each other, 'Well, we would have taken Chalmers.' We were just so loaded up at that combo spot, and then 10 minutes later we weren't."