We should all be pulling for the Clippers to lose, and hope that the Thunder would rather see the Jazz than the Rockets.
Three teams in the East have the same record as us now. That's three places in draft order we could pick up easily.
All these mock draft sites after the top 8 are all different. What going be interesting who we talk to in the combines and who stand out. Then comes who bring in on work outs here in Portland.
In all honesty if Denver passes us and Nurkic is a no go... I rather just take the lottery pick. I don't wanna see us flail to a sweep against GS without Nurk.
I exhaled when the Nuggets lost tonight. If they can find it in their hearts to lose two more, we'll only need tomorrow's win to get there.
Phoenix is out tanking LA. Insane, they have a ton of talent on their team. They shouldn't be this bad.
That is my understanding. Not sure exactly how it works with multiple teams being involved but I am pretty sure a coin toss is used for all draft tiebreakers. Personally I think they should do rock- paper- scissors and make it yet another media event at halftime of some TNT game.
It would be funny if every team left tanked on purpose against the Lakers, and they ended up catching Orlando too. I would freaking kill to see the Lakers lose their draft pick. Come on ping ball balls!
Lakers are playing a dangerous game. They will not finish below Brooklyn for certain and now it looks like they won't be able to finish below Phoenix either. Difference between 2nd worst and 3rd worst is that you get over 50% chance to be top 3 if you are 2nd but it drops below 45% of you are 3rd - i.e. they will be more likely to lose that pick than to keep it. Would be amazing if 76ers were the team to get drawn in top 3 instead of them and ended up taking no. 1 or 2 and 4. Imagine if Sixers got Fultz/Ball and Monk/Jackson.
Monks short height for a SG (6'3) would be a be a good fit next to the length of the PGs Fultz (6'5) and Ball (6'6).
