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Bulls get 9th pick

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The NBA lottery drawing gave the Bulls the #9 overall pick. That means that the Bulls, and none of the other teams behind them moved up in the lottery.
 
The Portland Trailblazers got the #1 overall pick, Seattle moved up to #2, and Atlanta #3.

Memphis (#4) and Boston (#5) both were pushed down.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/basketball/nba/05/22/draft.lottery.ap/index.html

Draft order--
1. Portland
2. Seattle
3. Atlanta
4. Memphis
5. Boston
6. Milwaukee
7. Minnesota
8. Charlotte
9. Chicago (from New York)
10. Sacramento
11. Atlanta (from Indiana)
12. Philadelphia
13. New Orleans
14. LA Clippers
15. Detroit (from Orlando)
16. Washington
17. New Jersey
18. Golden State
19. LA Lakers
20. Miami
21. Philadelphia (from Denver)
22. Charlotte (from Toronto through Cleveland)
23. New York (from Chicago)
24. Phoenix (from Cleveland through Boston)
25. Utah
26. Houston
27. Detroit
28. San Antonio
29. Phoenix
30. Philadelphia (from Dallas through Denver and Golden State)
 
I'll bet the agents for Oden and Durant are pissed that their clients will be stuck in small cities in the pacific northwest. That will cut their endorsement opportunities in half.

Glad for the Bulls sake that both of those players will be in the Western Conference.
 
With the rookie salary cap structure, those 2 teams (Portland and Seattle) are not going to trade the picks or the 2 studs, as they will be able to sign them for 3 or 4 years at a relatively low price. If they traded them, they would get massively overpriced talent that likely wouldn't help them as much.

The Celtics fans are livid and distraught. And of course, they want an overhaul of the lottery system. The Celts had the 2nd worst record, but will draft 5th, where they will likely get someone like Al Horford or Corey Brewer, instead of a franchise player like Oden or Durant.
 
yeah, I kinda think that lottery system is bogus, they should just use a system like the NFL or something.
 
I dont have a problem with the current draft process. It is in place to try to keep teams from tanking, forcing all teams to try hard and be competive every night for 82 games. Not rewarding a team that sits their star player the entire second half of the season and does not try.

Plus it adds a buzz to the slection show..
 
Newsflash-
NBA Commissioner David Stern says he will look into the Lottery system and consider a change. However, not because the Celtics are upset, but more because some think the Celtics tanked games at the end of the season for an opportunity to get a better draft pick.

Does anyone think he'd have considered it if the Bulls had asked?
http://www.hoopsworld.com/article_22040.shtml
 
Here's an interesting draft-conspiracy theory suggesting the lottery was rigged so that two of the NBA's most financially unstable franchises, both about to fold, would get the top two picks despite the long odds.
It recaps how teams like the Knicks and the Spurs, in the 80's and 90's respectively were saved by suspicious draft circumstances leading to conspiracy theories.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/sports/sonics/story/66794.html

Here's the twist...that article was written TWO DAYS BEFORE the drawing for draft position was held last night,
and it actually predicted that if Stern doesn't "put a fix in" for the Sonics, that they'd fold.

"the fix is in, and that Stern is the master puppeteer."

"Stern would be wise to begin pulling the strings pretty quickly."


(ps-- the guy who wrote this story deserves a Pulitzer!)
 
DannyCooksey said:
I'll bet the agents for Oden and Durant are pissed that their clients will be stuck in small cities in the pacific northwest. That will cut their endorsement opportunities in half.

Glad for the Bulls sake that both of those players will be in the Western Conference.
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I'm in agreement that its good for the Bulls that they're out west but the market doesn't matter that much.

Lebron James seems to be doing just fine in Cleveland which is a small market:
Cleveland: 500,000 w/ 2.1 mil metro
Portland: 600,000 w/ 2.1mil metro
Seattle: 600,000 w/ 3.2mil metro
 
tornado said:
Here's an interesting draft-conspiracy theory suggesting the lottery was rigged so that two of the NBA's most financially unstable franchises, both about to fold, would get the top two picks despite the long odds.
It recaps how teams like the Knicks and the Spurs, in the 80's and 90's respectively were saved by suspicious draft circumstances leading to conspiracy theories.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/sports/sonics/story/66794.html

Here's the twist...that article was written TWO DAYS BEFORE the drawing for draft position was held last night,
and it actually predicted that if Stern doesn't "put a fix in" for the Sonics, that they'd fold.

"the fix is in, and that Stern is the master puppeteer."

"Stern would be wise to begin pulling the strings pretty quickly."


(ps-- the guy who wrote this story deserves a Pulitzer!)
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Memphis is in much worse shape than Portland. If you really wanted to fix the draft, Oden and Durant would have landed in Boston or Philly. For the NBA it seems like a bad place for the 2 best players in the draft, but who knows. The Blazers should have a killer starting 5 in 3 or 4 years.

Wouldn't Durant in Seatle make it easier for them to move because they would have a better draw in OKC or KC (or Vegas)? They have a terrible stadium deal in Seatle, and they really need to move out of there.
 
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