2007-05-23 05:58:09 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Basketball
No because it's all luck.
2007-05-23 06:01:17 · answer #1 · answered by Jon P 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I told ya'll the lottery is fixed and noone belived me and now we're going to have a guy that looks like Shrek play in the NBA instead some team out there should make a deal with Portland and cash in on Durant instead of Oden a.k.a. Shrek the third. LOL
2007-05-23 06:11:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is strange. Even better, the Blazers didn't suffer for their bad luck last year because of the good decisions that were made by the organization.
That just goes to prove that GMs and presidents matter just as much as good fortune in the draft. Those of you whose teams had bad luck this year, don't feel too bad if you've got a good GM: he'll find a good player for you. Now, if you're a team like Boston with bad luck *and* a bad GM, you've got some worrying to do...
Edit: As usual, users on this site tend to give the "thumbs down" to people they disagree with, regardless of whether they make a good argument. That's why I pay more attention to a user's best arguments than his/her thumbs up/thumbs down ratio.
2007-05-23 06:06:51 · answer #3 · answered by Mike G 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Very strange. Memphis and Boston both lost out on the Top 3 draft picks. Yet both had the best percentages. Memphis - 25%
Boston - 19.9%. While Portland had 5.3% Seattle - 8.8% Atlanta -11.9%. Sometimes it's all about luck more than percentages when your talking about choosing a winner out of ping pong balls.
2007-05-23 06:05:38 · answer #4 · answered by hhsdan 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
While it's strange, it's still just probability. You can say it's rigged if you want to, but it's just dumb luck. 5% in lotteries aren't too bad, you'd do worse buying a ticket from a 7-11.
2007-05-23 06:06:53 · answer #5 · answered by jaceman 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is...interesting...that the three teams most suspected of tanking( Memphis, Boston,Milwaukee) ended getting their worst possible draft positions, and Portland made up for last year when they got bad luck. It's almost like the league was punishing those tankers....
2007-05-23 06:14:34 · answer #6 · answered by tdubya86 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That is why it is called a lottery, A game of chance.
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2007-05-23 06:06:23 · answer #7 · answered by Patrick 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
odd, but that's why it's called the lottery, it's all about chance.
2007-05-23 06:40:11 · answer #8 · answered by kg22 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
even stranger that they don't show the ping pong ball process to the public.
utter crap - i'm only sorry that i cared in the first place...
2007-05-23 06:02:17 · answer #9 · answered by nostradamus02012 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋