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Lottery Pick #9 -- So much for Ping Pong

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    The actual lottery is held with numbered pingpong balls emerging from a hopper. Teams are assigned a four-digit number to match the numbers on four pingpong balls.

    The Rockets were assigned a combination of 9-14-8-6. When the balls were uncovered, Frank checked the pingpong balls against the Rockets' assigned numbers.

    Nine. Fourteen. Eight. And finally -- 10.

    "We had all three of the numbers," Frank said. "If we had No. 10, we would have had the No. 1 pick.

    "Then 6 came out. I was devastated."



    Man, that has to hurt.

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