The NBA has postponed the draft lottery and combine

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    hard to assign ping pong balls without either finishing the season or canceling the remainder of it.
     
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    How are we gonna win the lotto and draft LaMelo now?
     
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    Worst draft in 20 years they are saying.
     
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    Well - there goes the last reason to care about the NBA.

    When Roger Goodell can figure it out and your commisioner can't...that's just tragic.
     
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    Dude how do u assign ping pong balls without finishing the season?? Lmao
     
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    By calling the regular season done and assigning lottery spots based on current records.

    At this point, even getting the playoffs in is going to be tough. Finishing out the regular season makes no sense.
     
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    This is nuts. Already the worst draft in decades by all accounts, no NCAA tourney to showcase questionable players. Biggest crapshoot in draft history.
     
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    So if they cancel the season and cancel playoffs does it make sense to reward bad teams high draft picks and give good teams late picks?

    If I'm the Bucks I'm passed, we don't get a chance for playoffs and I get the last pick.

    Maybe they could do a lottery for all 30 picks with equal ping pong balls.
     
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    I think its nuts to cancel the lottery and draft. We need some normalcy, and they should finish the damn season even if its at Wally World. The NBA cant be quitter's look at how many people still go to work for not even fraction of what they make. TV revenue is still vitality to the league!
     
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    Well I would put staying alive and healthy as a bigger priority.
     
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    Why isnt it for the guy or gal that works at Safeway or Riteaid. We have 11 0f 12 kids, and in-laws, that are all working too. And they would also would like to stay healthy and live. But they are expected to work, when professional athletes don't have too? The NFL had a decent draft and people really enjoyed it not sure why the NBA couldn't do the same?
     
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    This isn't about professional athletes. It's about all of us. The NFL had a draft as the Pros and college had completed their season and the NBA is still looking at trying to finish their season and want to make the draft fair. You're comparing apples to oranges hg. Also, keep in mind, NO state has met the minimum requirements to open up but this administration now wants to ignore their own findings
     
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    I’m just saying they need to finish when they can.
    If they are good with using Disney World they should.
     
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    Thay only announced it has been postponed, not canceled.
     
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    Hopefully they can do it sometime this year.
     
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