Event 2025 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY, COMBINE, AND DRAFT

At least he can see what he thinks you said.

 

Since the lotto is in ChiTown watch the bulls win #1 pick.

 

Rather have that than SAS or HOU.

 

it's mathematically possible that the Spurs could end up with the 1st and 2nd picks....be afraid!

 

At which point we should all just shift our entire focus to the Ducks.

 

For those saying their money is on us ending up at 11, why the fuck is that? We have a whopping 63% chance of staying at 10, we have another 16.9% chance at moving up and for a total of 79.9% chance that we don't move back but you guys want to put money on us getting fucked over by moving back to 11 at 18.5%.

II'm keeping my fingers crossed that we get lucky and hit on that 16.9% that we move up but I'm expecting the most probable outdome of us staying at 10.

 

what a wonderful world would it be if SA gets Cooper Flagg

 

as far as I can tell, Blazers have had four #1 picks; Spurs have had 3

Portland: Larue Martin-->Bill Walton-->Mychal Thompson-->Greg Oden

San Antonio: David Robinson-->Tim Duncan-->Victor Wembanyama

Spurs have obviously gained a lot more from 1 less pick

Blazers took Larue Martin when Bob McAdoo, Julius Erving, and Paul Westphal were available

and they took Thompson when Larry Bird, Reggie Theus, and Mike Mitchell were available

 

I don’t think anyone of note was available after Oden. I did all the honking I needed to do.

 

Aldridge wanted Durant, fellow Longhorn

 

We should have listened to him, ya know.

 

The year Olshey took over

 

Spurs also have Atlanta pick unprotected.... so in theory they could end up with BOTH #1 and #2!

Then Houston jumps to #3, Sac jumps to #4... thats probably about the worst case scenario for Portland. Utah would be #5 and and NOP #8 so the west continues to get loaded. The Blazers drop to #12

 

So since Houston has the Phoenix pick unprotected it'll be Houston up on the screen for that prick - right? Normally I believe the team that will get the pick when its #1 is the team we see at the lottery. So same with #14... its Atlanta originally but we'll see SAS at that spot since its unprotected - and thus the Spurs have two representatives? But Sacramento keeps their pick if its top4 so we'll see Sacramento at #13 even though likely it stays there and is sent to Atlanta.

 

So what we want to see when Chicago is on the screen at #12 is next Dallas.... that means Dallas didn't jump over us. In other words we first do not want to see our name come up after Chicago.

But then primarily after Dallas is displayed at #11 we do NOT want to see Portland. So we want to see Houston at #10 which would mean we're in the top4.

 

I wish instead of this backwards order where you don't want to see your team they would just televise the ping pong balls being selected and start with pick #1..... I believe its four balls selected - so they could do a drawn out reveal at each ball and list all the numbers next to each team that we want to see for each ball. Then repeat for pick #2, #3, #4.

 

They also run through the order so damn fast on the show. They spend 15 minutes talking about Giannis or Flagg or whatever then go through each pick in 4 seconds each so you have no time to follow whats happening and the announcers are trying to rush to explain who jumps who and all the sudden we go from 14 teams to 4 with a big bunch of commercials.

They need to spend a good 20 seconds on each selection so we have a chance to digest what happened and who jumped who and who is slotted next. That would only be 3 minutes to run through all 10 of those selections instead of rushing to open these envelopes every 4 seconds.

Hope we start to see a better presentation of the draft lottery. Its literally one of my favorite most exciting parts of the entire season but the TV program is just so awful in how its displayed. I'll get over it if we get #1 though.