I’d love to be wrong but I think teams will take best player available and that’s Scoot. They are lottery teams, they need talent.
I can only see Dallas taking Scoot if they know Irving walks.
If we’re doing good luck charms, we might as well swing for the fences and have TD be there, he’s literally the charm that brought good fortune to the franchise. I’d have him backstopped by DRob as well.
And they won't know that on draft night.
Only thing I can see is a team like Dallas may be interested in trading back to pick 3 (if SA has pick 3 and Dallas pick 2) if we offer up Keldon + pick 3. I can see them wanting a win now young guy + still getting a top 3 pick too.
But if not, they take Scoot. They had Brunson and Luka and regret not having Brunson, so they can get someone with more upside and hedge Kylie leaving etc..
Dallas nor Portland see themselves as lottery teams in the traditional sense. Charlotte and Detroit are...
Thank you sir!
For anyone else who is too lazy to Google like I am:
How specifically does the Lottery work?
The 2023 NBA Draft Lottery will be held Tuesday, May 16. ESPN will air the results live at 8 p.m. ET. The 38th annual NBA Draft Lottery will determine the order of selection for the first 14 picks of the 2023 NBA Draft. Drawings will be conducted to determine the first four picks in the NBA Draft. The remainder of the “lottery teams” will select in positions five through 14 in inverse order of their 2022-23 regular-season records.
The actual lottery procedure will take place in a separate room just before ESPN’s national broadcast. Select media, NBA officials and representatives of the participating teams and the accounting firm Ernst & Young will be in attendance for the drawings.
Fourteen ping-pong balls numbered 1 through 14 will be placed in a lottery machine. There are 1,001 possible combinations when four balls are drawn out of 14, without regard to their order of selection. Before the lottery, 1,000 of those 1,001 combinations will be assigned to the 14 participating lottery teams. The lottery machine is manufactured by the Smart Play Company, a leading manufacturer of state lottery machines throughout the United States. Smart Play also weighs, measures and certifies the ping-pong balls before the drawing.
The drawing process occurs in the following manner: All 14 balls are placed in the lottery machine and they are mixed for 20 seconds, and then the first ball is removed. The remaining balls are mixed in the lottery machine for another 10 seconds, and then the second ball is drawn. There is a 10-second mix, and then the third ball is drawn. There is a 10-second mix, and then the fourth ball is drawn. The team that has been assigned that combination will receive the No. 1 pick. The same process is repeated with the same ping-pong balls and lottery machine for the second through fourth picks.
If the same team comes up more than once, the result is discarded and another four-ball combination is selected. Also, if the one unassigned combination is drawn, the result is discarded and the balls are drawn again. The length of time the balls are mixed is monitored by a timekeeper who faces away from the machine and signals the machine operator after the appropriate amount of time has elapsed.
A representative from Ernst & Young oversees the entire lottery process and stuffs and seals the envelopes before bringing them to the studio for the broadcast. The announcement of the lottery results will be made by NBA Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer Mark Tatum. A second representative from each participating team will be seated on stage. Neither the Deputy Commissioner nor the team representatives on stage will be informed of the lottery results before the envelopes are opened. The team whose logo is in the last envelope opened will have the No. 1 pick in the 2023 NBA Draft, which will be held on Thursday, June 22.
They sure can know if Irving doesn't want to renew before draft night.
Last edited by JPB; 05-16-2023 at 04:10 PM.
They won't know for sure. He's said he was staying on every team he's ever played for, and then forced his way out. You can't really believe his words, and the draft is before free agency, so you won't know his actions until he does them in early July.
You heard it here first. Pop doesn’t think we deserve the #1 overall pick.
One tiiiiiime! #Wemby
Tall like Timmy, French like Tony, skilled like Manu!
I'm off the internet untill the lottery is done, would be happy with a top3 pick. 5th or lower would be really disappointing after everything that's been done this season to secure a good pick.
Pop should stfu
#1 pick here we ing come
DRob was there last year, no luck.
I hope this senile old fool donates half his salary to TD every year
#1 pick confirmed
#7 here we come
90 minutes to glory.
How you guys gonna chop your own s off when 86% hits? Kitchen shears or rusty old hacksaw?
Pop continues to conflate his not deserving the #1 pick with the Spurs not.
I won't rehash all I've said about this ad nauseam, but they absolutely deserve it and the second the league gives them reparations, i'll be the first to say they're the last team that deserves lottery luck going forward.
I'm just here for the celebra...glorious meltdown.
My Wemby lottery winner preference:
1. Spurs - tbh
2. Hornets - that'd help that first round pick to the Spurs convey
3. Wizards - how much damage could he do as a Wizard?
4. Pistons - Pistons fans have always been pretty cool
5. Magic - Go east, young man.
6. Pacers - Kinda scary destination but at least it's in the East
7. Raptors - Still salty about that Kawhi trade or else they'd be higher
8. Jazz - Maybe Stockton could distract Wemby with QAnon
9. Blazers - Messy ownership group so not a super scary landing spot
10. Bulls - It's in the East but, ugh, those picks they owe the Spurs would be less valuable
11. Pelicans - Also owe Spurs picks but Vic and Zion would be pretty entertaining, tbh (for the 5 games a year they play together)
12. Thunder - Yikes, too much talent being stacked over there.
13. Rockets - Gross.
14. Mavericks - Disgusting.
Pop reverse jinxing. No issue with it.
I beg to differ with Pop. After what that piece of Kawhi put us through, who set us back 30 years with his bull , we definitely deserve #1 overall pick. Please, Basketball Gods, do us this solid.
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