What Were The Odds?
The NBA is soooooooooooooooooooo shady...
Paul Allen is planning to offload the Portland team after realizing you can't just buy all the free agents to win a title.
Seattle has such citywide apathy for the Sonics' crowing to get a brand new facility that there is literally a citywide vote to NOT subsidize the team, regardless of threats to move the franchise away.
Now, with the Pac NW poised to move a team, and sell the other, BOTH TEAMS MIRACULOUSLY WIN THE LOTTERY! YAY - WHAT WERE THE ODDS???
Portland had a 5.3% chance of getting #1, and Seattle had a low % too... but both won in a behind-the-scenes "lottery."
"The Basketball Gods" - I guess Stern is God to the league.
The NBA is cold shady.
Paul Allen is planning to offload the Portland team after realizing you can't just buy all the free agents to win a title.
Seattle has such citywide apathy for the Sonics' crowing to get a brand new facility that there is literally a citywide vote to NOT subsidize the team, regardless of threats to move the franchise away.
Now, with the Pac NW poised to move a team, and sell the other, BOTH TEAMS MIRACULOUSLY WIN THE LOTTERY! YAY - WHAT WERE THE ODDS???
Portland had a 5.3% chance of getting #1, and Seattle had a low % too... but both won in a behind-the-scenes "lottery."
"The Basketball Gods" - I guess Stern is God to the league.
The NBA is cold shady.
posted by The Funk at 10:25 AM
2 Comments:
What do the following players have in common, beside that they're all now playing in the Western Conference Finals?
* Tony Parker
* Manu Ginobili
* Bruce Bowen
* Fabricio Oberto
* Carlos Boozer
* Mehmut Okur
* Derek Fisher
* Andrei Kirilenko
* Gordan Giricek
* Paul Millsap
None of these players were top draft picks.
Bowen and Oberto weren't drafted at all. Ginobili, Boozer, Okur, Giricek and Millsap were all drafted in the second round. The remaining three were drafted late in the first round: Parker (#28), Fisher (#24), Kirilenko (#24).
My point? The #1 and #2 draft picks don't always pan out. Some recent examples include: Marvin Williams, Darko Milicic, Kwame Brown, Stromile Swift, Michael Olowokandi.
Then again, the talent pool this year appears to be unusually deep.
If I remember correctly, #21 was a first pick, not that he's as good as Oberto or Giricek.
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