<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The Lakers and Clippers are jostling for 10th in the Western Conference, but the loser gets the bigger prize ? a higher draft pick and a slightly better chance to move up in the lottery. If the season ended today, the Lakers would have the 10th overall pick, one spot better than the Clippers and the Orlando Magic. "The Lakers will always be a better team, there's no question," center Vlade Divac said. "But if you look what's better for our future for the lottery ? as a player you can not think about it, you just go out and play ? but if you don't make the playoffs, the best thing that can happen is you're the worst team, right?" If the Lakers finish with the 10th-worst record, they will have 11 chances out of 1,000 to get the top overall pick. If the Clippers finish with the 11th-worst record, they will have eight chances out of 1,000 at the top pick. If teams tie, the league conducts a tiebreaker by placing both team names into a hopper and pulling out one. That team would get the higher draft position and a better possibility of moving up in the May 24 lottery.</div> Source Actually Lottery makes it a <u>TERRIBLE</u> ending!
I've always watched the Lottery without thinking of how important it was to our Lakers. I'll be keeping a close watch this year. Comon' KUPCAKE, do something right in your life, and pick us a winner!
Has it ever happend that a team with a not-so-bad record (compared to the team with the worst record) has gotten the first, second or third pick? And yeah, I hope the Lakers continue loosing now so that they get a better pick.
