Official New Jersey Nets #1 pick Status Thread..........

And Sacramento won it. No chance at the 5 now.

 

TIES BROKEN FOR NBA DRAFT 2012 ORDER OF SELECTION

NEW YORK, April 27, 2012 – Seven ties among teams that finished the 2011-12
NBA regular season with identical records were broken today through random
drawings to help determine the order of selection for the 2012 NBA Draft,
which will be held on Thursday, June 28, at The Prudential Center in
Newark, N.J.

The drawings were conducted earlier today in New York City by Carol Sawdye,
NBA Chief Financial Officer, and Dan Rube, NBA Senior Vice President and
Deputy General Counsel. The tiebreak process was overseen by Martin
Shannon, a partner in the accounting firm of Ernst & Young.

The results of the drawings:

· Cleveland (21-45) won a tiebreaker with New Orleans.
· Sacramento (22-44) won a tiebreaker with New Jersey.
· Golden State (23-43) won a tiebreaker with Toronto.
· New York (36-30) won a tiebreaker with Dallas; and Dallas won a
tiebreaker with Utah.
· L.A. Clippers (40-26) won a tiebreaker with Atlanta.
· L.A. Lakers (41-25) won a tiebreaker with Memphis.
· Chicago (50-16) won a tiebreaker with San Antonio.

 

So, we're currently at #6.

 

2012 FIRST ROUND DRAFT CHOICE ORDER

The teams entered in the lottery, to be held on May 30, 2012, are as
follows (note: the first three picks in the Draft will be determined by the
lottery and the remainder of the “lottery teams” will select in positions 4
through 14 in inverse order of their consolidated standings at the end of
the regular season):


TEAM RECORD LOTTERY CHANCES
(out of 1,000)
Charlotte 7-59 250
Washington 20-46 199
Cleveland 21-45 138
New Orleans 21-45 137
Sacramento 22-44 76
New Jersey* 22-44 75
Golden State# 23-43 36
Toronto 23-43 35
Detroit 25-41 17
Minnesota (To New Orleans via LA Clippers) 26-40 11
Portland 28-38 8
Milwaukee 31-35 7
Phoenix 33-33 6
Houston 34-32 5

The order for the remainder of the first round picks is as follows:

15. Philadelphia 35-31
16. New York (To Houston) 36-30
17. Dallas 36-30
18. Utah (To Minnesota) 36-30
19. Orlando 37-29
20. Denver 38-28
21. Boston 39-27
22. LA Clippers (To Boston via OKC) 40-26
23. Atlanta 40-26
24. LA Lakers (To Cleveland) 41-25
25. Memphis 41-25
26. Indiana 42-24
27. Miami 46-20
28. Oklahoma City 47-19
29. Chicago 50-16
30. San Antonio (To Golden State) 50-16


* This pick may be conveyed to Portland.
# This pick may be conveyed to Utah via New Jersey.

 

Damn I was hoping for #5.

 

Bummer, can't win them all. Still we can some nice talent to build around with Aldridge. Excited about that. Plus if we want we can move up and get a player that the Blazers may just fall in love with. We are in a great position IMO.

 

74.8% chance of keeping the pick

41.3% 6th
29.4% 7th
3.9% 8th
.1% 9th

 

We're gettig screwed already! :MARIS61:

It's funny - they always talk about how teams that intentionally tank, always end up with the short straw. NJ obviously tanked that final game, and Sacto put forth the effort to win. So Sacto and NJ end up tied, but in the end, NJ mailed it in, so they "lose" the toss.

 

losing the toss changes things for the blazers, but it changes almost nothing for NJ. they only lost 1 combination out of 1000, so their odds of keeping the pick are effectively the same.

if sac goes on to win a top 3 and NJ doesn't THEN you can cite karma, but it doesn't really work at this point

 

We may have to trade up a spot or two from both spots but Beal and Marshall are within reach!

 

No, I know. It was more sarcasm - I was taking trying to be all dramatic and channeling my inner-mixum.

 

in that case you should say the BLAZERS are being punished for tanking : )

 

Both will be there at #6, so at least one will be available at #7. However, I'm intrigued by neither, so that doesn't excite me.

 

I can see you're channeling your inner-PapaG.

 

or knowing us we'll just take marshall at 6

 

When the trade occured some suggested NJ may end up making the playoffs in the east. (With Deron coming back from his injury and the addition of Wallace) Or at least come close. I am happy with #6. If we end up with it.

 

As good as Deron is, he's nowhere near the talent that Chris Paul has been. The Nets are fucking terrible with supposedly one of the best point guards in the country, yet the Hornets were never very talented and Paul had them playing to the utmost of their potential. I'd still take Deron if he's available, but the guy doesn't seem to make everyone around him better.

 

Looks like Gerald is going to opt out, the Nets might have traded their top ten pick for 15 or so games of broken down Gerald

https://twitter.com/#!/NYDNInterNets/status/195914067297316864

 

There's no way Deron stays on that team. I almost hope we don't get the pick this year. It might be even better next season.

 

All this means is that, barring a NJ miracle, POR will likely be picking 6th or 7th....