Lottery Drawing Tonight 7:30 PM Central

The lottery results were already in. That's why.

 

They only draw for the top 3 teams. The rest of the teams are sorted by record. If your team doesn't show up in the order it should (going by probabilities), it means you're in the top 3.

 

you can only jump from outside the top 3 to INTO the top 3.

And damn durvasa you beat me to it! lol

 

You either pick in the top 3 or you pick in the highest spot you can if you didn't win the lottery. There are no other positions you can be at.

 

How awesome would it be if Jennings went to Golden State. That would be an exciting team.

 

Because the lottery itself is to see if you get one of the top 3 picks. If you don't get one of those picks, you fall back into your original slot based on team record. Its really teams 1-14 vying for picks 1 through 3.

 

i wonder that too... only thing i can think of is protected picks in a trade. (isn't there a top 3 thing)

 

I don't think that was it.

They acted like there was some kind of formula or something. It was almost like "because they aren't picking 6th, that means they will definitely be picking in the top 3" as if there was some kind of reasoning behind it. They weren't revealing anything during the show in order not to spoil it for viewers.

 

the west gets even stronger.. that guy who was presenting the picks looks like a dang lanky alien

 

cuz two teams jumped...wash fell to 5th and that meant two team had leapfrogged

 

ahh.. got it. Thanks, moe.

 

They said it before the 5th team was determined. Moe and lastmanstanding already explained it.

 

This is how it works - they draw three numbers for the top three picks. The rest fall into place by record. So when they skip a team when calling them in ascending order, then it means their number was drawn for the top three picks.

 

moestavern19 said it the best.

 

i wonder if donald sterling would sell that pick to cut costs... i mean that's guaranteed money for 3 years. get on it DM!!!

 

well looks like the team i didnt want to win it did

not sure how they'll screw it up but they will

they'll choose rubio with the first pick

 

Guaranteed contract at an affordable price though. Those upper level rookie contracts are good for teams not bad.

 

I should clarify that the only teams that actually lose their slotted position are the teams who finished with the worst 3 records.

So in essence, The Clippers and Grizzlies knocked the Kings and Wizards out of the lottery by winning, since the Kings were knocked out they were guaranteed to pick 4th since they were the team with the worst record to not win the lottery, and the wizards pick 5th since they were the 2nd worst team, etc.

 

Wonder if the Grizzlies will take Rubio, they can't be happy with Mike Conley at this point... plus Marc Gasol is already there to be his pal.

 

The Griz gave us their best PG. That was pretty foolish of them but most excellent for us.