Game Thread NBA Draft Lottery - May 12, 2025

[homeytennis]

This is a super must win game.

 

[Thee Jazz Fan]

Man the first SIM I ran ended up about where I expected, check it out.

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San Antonio, Philly and Brooklyn all moving up. Makes perfect sense. And we end up in **SUPRISE**, 5th.

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[seattlejazzfan]

I can confirm that the team 4-8 do not have a better chance landing at 1 or 2. My source is math. Its a small sample and yes we likely end up at 5... but we still gave ourselves the best chance which was the responsible thing to do.

and honestly the bolded is why the lottery is a good system to discourage tanking while at the same time at least giving bad teams a chance to get better. for a team like the jazz, it's probably the only way to get to the top, but the odds are stacked against it.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

I think the Jazz are going to get into the top 4. I can smell it.

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks the league may want Philly to keep their pick rather than send more talent to OKC. That means Philly would need to move into the top 4 if more than one team jumps them. Brooklyn is another team I could picture moving up, either to keep the pick or use it as part of a trade for a star, like Giannis.

 

[infection]

and honestly the bolded is why the lottery is a good system to discourage tanking while at the same time at least giving bad teams a chance to get better. for a team like the jazz, it's probably the only way to get to the top, but the odds are stacked against it.

Theoretically discourages tanking and yet… here we are.

 

[infection]

Theoretically discourages tanking and yet… here we are.

Maybe it encourages the bottom 6-7 to tank even harder to raise the floor because of how much they may get screwed, and further encourages tanking on the back end of the lottery because now those cats feel they have a chance.

 

[NUMBERICA]

I am ****ing anxious about this.

 

[infection]

I am ****ing anxious about this.

If we aren’t able to hit on this, we’re ****ed. And if we can’t successfully tank next year and hit again, we’re still pretty ****ed. Lining up both of those and we’re definitely ****ed. It really takes the pressure off and should ease anxiety. I think there’s actually a Matthew Broderick quote about this from The Freshman. Or maybe it was even Ferris Bueller. I’ll go find it.

 

[infection]

If we aren’t able to hit on this, we’re ****ed. And if we can’t successfully tank next year and hit again, we’re still pretty ****ed. Lining up both of those and we’re definitely ****ed. It really takes the pressure off and should ease anxiety. I think there’s actually a Matthew Broderick quote about this from The Freshman. Or maybe it was even Ferris Bueller. I’ll go find it.

Found it.


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[NUMBERICA]

and honestly the bolded is why the lottery is a good system to discourage tanking while at the same time at least giving bad teams a chance to get better. for a team like the jazz, it's probably the only way to get to the top, but the odds are stacked against it.

It’s objectively not a good system because teams are still tanking, so all the lottery does is unfairly punish some teams and reward others.

 

[Shad]

GET THE CHURROS OUT

 

[kcgar]

I’m not sure I understand.

Nobody with worse odds than Brooklyn will win the lottery