NBA Lottery
Yesterday was a big day for the NBA, and all its fans. It
was the NBA lottery; this lottery decides the drafting order next month.
Personally I was hoping the Jazz would get first picks and get Brother Parker
to come play in Utah. Yet, the odds were not in our favor.
If you don’t know what the lottery is or how it works, it’s
ok because I didn’t either, until I had a sit down lesson with my husband. Now
I find myself a pro in the subject of the NBA lottery. So lets dig in and put
the lottery in layman’s terms.
The Lottery is broken down as so:
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14 teams who essentially played horribly the
previous season (i.e. did not make the playoffs) are put into the Lottery.
·
From those 14 teams three teams are picked to be
the top three to pick first, second and third in the first round of the draft.
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Their prize? Getting first dibs on amateur
players, who rank the top in the college basketball realm.
So you may be asking, “Why is it called a lottery?” Each of
the 14 teams is given a probability of them getting the number one pick. So
look at it this way, out of 100 lottery tickets, the worst team on record has
25 tickets that can be drawn to get the first round pick, the second worst team
has 20 tickets and so on until you get to the best of the worst teams. So the probability
of a decent team who didn’t make the playoffs getting first picks is rare.
YET this year, in the NBA lottery that took place last
night, the Cleveland Cavaliers had the 9th best odds with 1.7
percent change of getting the number one pick. They got the number one pick.
Not only did they get the number one pick, this is the second year in a row
that they have gotten this pick (this doesn’t happen) Just look at twitter, or
get on ESPN, people are not happy with the Cavs getting the number one pick
again.
So the Lottery picks are below
So now you know who is doing the top picks in the first
round, lets look at the top players to be drafted
http://espn.go.com/nba/draft2014/story/_/id/10824590/2014-nba-draft-espn-insider-360-degree-nba-draft-prospect-profiles
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