Lottery Day '09
by Seth on May 19, 2009 9:11 AM EDT
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It's Lottery Day '09, kids! Tonight (8:30, ESPN) marks New York's yearly chance at prospecting priority, and it all comes down to the whims of 1,000 nasty little ping-pong balls. The Knicks will have 28 orbs of excellence in play this evening, producing the following odds:
1st pick: 2.8%
2nd pick: 3.3%
3rd: 3.9%
8th: 72.4%
9th: 16.8%
10th: .08% (100% chance that I eat my own fist.)
So, the overwhelming favorite is for Donnie Walsh to stay put in the mid-lottery. Note that picks 4 through 7 are not possibilities, so if envelope 8 holds some other team's name, feel free to begin undressing. It's party time.
Now, even though tonight's results are in the hands of the basketball gods, don't count yourself out of the picture. There are things you can do to appease said roundball deities.
1. First rule of lottery club: Do not speak the names of the prospects. Last year, we forbade ourselves from speaking the words "Derrick Rose", but still uttered the names of other draft prospects. This year, we're stepping up our religious fervor. I ask you not to use the names of any draft-eligible people until the lottery has run its course. You may substitute rhyming words, describe players rather than name them, or utilize any other clever methods of circumvention you can find. Just no names. Respecting the otherworldly nature of the prospects will please the gods.
2. Do a good deed today. I'm completely serious. Go out of your way to do something nice for somebody- a friend, a family member, or a complete stranger. Doesn't matter. Just swing karma in our direction. Report your benevolence in the comments.
3. Play the Lottery Machine as much as you like. After 7 p.m., though, give it just one spin and then let it rest. Report the results of that final play in the comments (again, no names).
4. Watch this video repeatedly. Allan Houston will represent the Knicks tonight, and needs just this kind of luck to win big.
5. Sacrifice one goat to the basketball gods. Just kidding. Unless you happen to have a goat that needs sacrificing. Then today would be a good day to do it. P&T does not support animal cruelty, for the record. But if you were gonna do it anyway, might as well make it count for something.
6. Brush your teeth. Do it at least once between dinner and the selection. The gods smile upon those with good hygiene.
And them's the rules. This thread is for you to keep us up to date about your worshipful endeavors, as well as any thoughts you have about the draft possibilities. Remember, no names.
Incidentally, I'm pulling for the second spot. It's got all of the prestige, with less of the pressure. Oh, and let's just say the Knicks could more reasonably justify going pequeño with the pick, you feel me?
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i'd like to get out of that eight region
in recent years, we’ve picked channing frye eighth, michael sweetney ninth, and nene seventh. that region of the draft is like our waterloo or some shit like that.
on #2, do a good deed
does getting called into work count? i hope so. my job bagging groceries will not be in vain. too bad i don’t get to watch the lottery.
oh and just for kicks, here’s Chad Ford’s article on what teams will do with top 3 picks. cliffs: every team has the same #1 and #2 choice, but ford has an interesting one for the knicks at #3. not sure if i’m for or against that pick.
by latrell chokewell on May 19, 2009 1:37 PM EDT reply actions
I don;t like it (#3 choice)
I don’t think it would be their choice unless he falls to them and there’s no one else.
This draft seems very deep and even if the Knicks are really unlucky and Seth has to eat his fist, I still think they could turn out okay (remember, if the Knicks picked at 10 last season they may have had Brook Lopez…..)
by FreeBradshaw on May 19, 2009 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions
As for the dude from Spain
the one who everyone wants, I really do NOT want him and I really hope that given the chance to be that high on the board that the Knicks pass. I don’t know what it is, but I really don;t want him. I know Gallinari is good and hopefully his back is well so that we can see the real Gallo…., but still I would have rather had either Eric Gordon or Brook Lopez.
If they grap a PG that high, I hope its the HS kid that skipped out on Arizona to go overseas.
I wouldn’t mind that really really really tall guy from Tanzania.
I still say that my favorite player in the draft is the Fr from Memphis.
I know that if the Knicks are top 3 they won’t “reach” for him, but I think he’ll be better than the guy from Arizona St and if they keep him at PG like Calipari did he’s a very tall PG, or at least a combo guard who is acutally big enough to guard 2’s and some 3’s.
But like the lottery itself, this is all luck. Sometimes the player that teams really like turns out to suck, and then the player that peopel think will flame out will actually turn out to be a good player.
cuz
every team in the lottery has a token chance to get the top three picks, in addition to the pick of their record, and the two picks below it in case people pass. . therefore, the picks the knicks can get are the top three, the eighth (our record) ninth (in case one team from below us gets lucky) and tenth (in case two teams below us get lucky).
I helped
An elderly David Stern across the street today.
But really, can we get some folded envelopes in here? Or maybe some frozen ones?
I split AND co-hit that.
by Thelonious Dunk on May 19, 2009 4:44 PM EDT reply actions
Time to throw on the lucky jersey and pray to the NBA gods
I split AND co-hit that.
by Thelonious Dunk on May 19, 2009 5:14 PM EDT reply actions
i'm going to put on my jamal crawford signed allan houston jersey
if that isn’t the luckiest item of clothing on the planet, i don’t know what is.
Oooh damn.
Even Oak can’t touch that.
I split AND co-hit that.
by Thelonious Dunk on May 19, 2009 6:27 PM EDT up reply actions
wearing
my lucky kenji johjima jersey. of course.
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Chewing
"Ariza on Mobley, trying to put some chillin on his thrillin"
"Vexing D, makes you hurry, makes you worry"
by Serious Garbage Time on May 19, 2009 5:44 PM EDT reply actions
I just played the lottery for the last time.
Motherfucking Nets picking #1 overall, us #3.
"I'll probably go get lifted right now with Greg. Hey, and come back tomorrow and try to get another win."
-Renaldo
just tuned in
allan houston brought reggie jackson? like…in person?
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jon barry
isn’t embarrassed to get rocked by a cartoon? he’s ok with this?
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just brushed my teeth
the knicks might not get the #1 pick, but i DEFINITELY won’t get gingivitis or plaque.
small victories
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i brushed my teeth five times today
and tapped my Gerald Wilkins poster on the way out to work this morning.
Ewing with the step...YES! and the foul!
by Anthony Masons Haircut on May 19, 2009 8:20 PM EDT reply actions
some thoughts:
last spin of the lotto wheel – 8. moderately disapointing.
i had a dream last night that russell westbrook and brian scalabrine were trying to join my frat. this is definitely an omen, but it might just be an omen that i should stop paying so much attention to basketball.
samesies
on the final lotto spin. not the dream.
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david stern
“we don’t lose date smackdowns”
oh hell yes.
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I don't care where we pick (outside of #1-3)
I want a certain PG from da Cuse.
everybody here seems to be on that train
big Syracuse presence on this site.
Ewing with the step...YES! and the foul!
by Anthony Masons Haircut on May 19, 2009 8:37 PM EDT up reply actions
No connection here
but if we take a certain mid-major PG over him, that will be the last straw, and I’ll be done with this team
by DevonEdwards on May 19, 2009 8:38 PM EDT up reply actions
really?
i’m interested to hear why that is.
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Well
a) I don’t want Lebron, but willing to live with it.
but b) he is not a PG, he shoots way too much, he’s not a particularly good shooter
and c) he looks like my 14 year old sister could outmuscle him
by DevonEdwards on May 19, 2009 8:40 PM EDT up reply actions
fair enough
though personally, i’d prefer the unc guy, the vcu guy, or the guy who’s been playing in italy to take the pg reigns
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i don't love Curry
but i’m not going to dump my fanship over it.
this is a team that traded Trevor Ariza for Steve Francis, three first round picks for Eddy Curry, and signed Shandon Anderson, Jerome James, and Jared Jeffries in free agency. i can live with another busted move.
Ewing with the step...YES! and the foul!
by Anthony Masons Haircut on May 19, 2009 8:41 PM EDT up reply actions
i think it was tim curry
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kinda rude
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i thought if we didn't do full names it was ok
my bad.
everybody gets one?
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by Anthony Masons Haircut on May 19, 2009 8:43 PM EDT up reply actions
See I can't
The organization has promised us a new direction. If the new direction is DANILO GALLINARI and a low-ceiling-PG then I’m getting off here.
by DevonEdwards on May 19, 2009 8:43 PM EDT up reply actions
nets sent rod thorn
NOT creative.
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Houston is on hand
I dig, but we couldn’t fly Ewing up from Cleveland?
given that he's currently associated with another team
probably not cool
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and by associated
i mean employed
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I still don't understand
why he isn’t a Knicks coach
by DevonEdwards on May 19, 2009 8:45 PM EDT up reply actions
considering D'Antoni and the Knicks
have scoffed at his attempts at rejoining the organization, if i was Ewing i’d tell them to fuck themselves.
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by Anthony Masons Haircut on May 19, 2009 8:46 PM EDT up reply actions
yeah
WHAT?
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Flip Saunders
that was my choice for Knicks coach. And no, I don’t like D’Antoni.
stay on target...
Ewing with the step...YES! and the foul!
by Anthony Masons Haircut on May 19, 2009 8:48 PM EDT reply actions
DAMMIT
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shit
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by Anthony Masons Haircut on May 19, 2009 8:48 PM EDT reply actions
How much you want to bet
OKC gets #1 for Griffin. This thing is fucking fixed. Rose to Chicago, Lebron to Cleveland, etc.
poor kings
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OKC Dynasty. Put it in the bank.
"I'll probably go get lifted right now with Greg. Hey, and come back tomorrow and try to get another win."
-Renaldo
say goodbye to Sacramento
that team is on its way out.
Ewing with the step...YES! and the foul!
by Anthony Masons Haircut on May 19, 2009 8:50 PM EDT reply actions
yeah
i feel like next year they might have the worst record in the league or something, and it would really suck for them if that happened…
oh
but this was their chance
to build around a franchise guy and stay in that city.
now they’re stuck with like Jordan Hill.
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by Anthony Masons Haircut on May 19, 2009 8:52 PM EDT up reply actions
The NBA absolutely is fixed
and David Stern is pulling all the strings.
fixed for...
Memphis?
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by Anthony Masons Haircut on May 19, 2009 8:51 PM EDT up reply actions
the top three picks
are three of the most regularly ignored teams in the nba…
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rubio on memphis
would be unreal
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Damn.
Oh well, those were the odds.
So much for bleeding gums.
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by Thelonious Dunk on May 19, 2009 8:53 PM EDT reply actions
holy God
Eric Gordon and Blake Griffin. yowza.
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by Anthony Masons Haircut on May 19, 2009 8:53 PM EDT reply actions
Dont forget
Tim thomas
I split AND co-hit that.
by Thelonious Dunk on May 19, 2009 8:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Can we appoint the Clippers as the funniest looking team in the NBA?
Too bad they don’t have Sam Cassell anymore. Missed opprotunity.
I split AND co-hit that.
by Thelonious Dunk on May 19, 2009 8:56 PM EDT up reply actions
clips man
kind of a tool
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Memphis
Rubio (potentially), Gay, Mayo, Conley, and the other Gasol. that’s a nice young core.
Ewing with the step...YES! and the foul!
by Anthony Masons Haircut on May 19, 2009 8:54 PM EDT reply actions
Over/Under on number of Ricky/Gasol oops this year
300.
"I'll probably go get lifted right now with Greg. Hey, and come back tomorrow and try to get another win."
-Renaldo
not rigged
no one will care about clippers and they wont be good
Kaman, Zbo
Camby and Blake Griffen as the big man rotation?? I don’t know, a healty Baron there that could compete with anyone.
But they are the clips and they will suck
by FreeBradshaw on May 19, 2009 8:56 PM EDT up reply actions
number 8 discussion
begins tomorrow
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Bring on the speculamating.
"Umm - it was - you know - umm - a good game. You know."
-Patrick Ewing
by Thelonious Dunk on May 19, 2009 9:30 PM EDT up reply actions
The basketball gods are a tricky bunch.
Banishing Griff to the Clippers? Harsh.
I split AND co-hit that.
by Thelonious Dunk on May 19, 2009 8:55 PM EDT reply actions
baron davis is my favorite player in the nba
the clippers and grizzlies were my two favorite teams this year. besides, you know, the knicks and whatever team matt barnes chose to play on.
Stephen Curry, here we come.
I split AND co-hit that.
by Thelonious Dunk on May 19, 2009 8:57 PM EDT reply actions
if the knicks are ever in a draft lotto again (unlikely)
every comment has to contain at least four player names
nobody brush their teeth for a week
punch a hobo in the face
i punched a hobo in the face today
that was my good deed
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Yo, not that I'm huge into him or anything,
but Thabeet is exactly what the Thunder need. Like, EXACTLY what they need.
"I'll probably go get lifted right now with Greg. Hey, and come back tomorrow and try to get another win."
-Renaldo
I would have loved to see these 4
face off in NBA Jam….
by FreeBradshaw on May 19, 2009 9:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Remind me
to never go to Vegas with Reggie.
I split AND co-hit that.
by Thelonious Dunk on May 19, 2009 9:15 PM EDT reply actions
i like your picture
any story behind that?
a/s/l?
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Googled Thelonious Monk, and that was the best picture they had.
Younger than Ricky Rubio,
Straight from the STL, ya heard?
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by Thelonious Dunk on May 19, 2009 9:17 PM EDT up reply actions
well
he just moved up to number 1 on my “dead celebrities i’d like to play in ping-pong” list
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i was just kidding on the asl
by the way.
but if you were interested in mine…14/F/alabama
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Ahahah. Touche.
I split AND co-hit that.
by Thelonious Dunk on May 19, 2009 9:22 PM EDT up reply actions
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