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With this disaster of a season coming to a close, the Magic sit with the 5th best odds of winning the right to pick 1st on June 22, 2017. He NBA draft lottery is set to take place on May 16, 2017. Here's how the field looks:

Lottery order:
1. Nets 20-62, 25.0%*
2. Suns 24-58, 19.9%
3. Lakers 26-56, 15.6%**
4. Sixers 28-54, 11.9%***
5. Magic 29-53, 8.8%
6. Wolves 31-51, 5.3%
7. Knicks 31-51, 5.3%
8. Kings 32-50, 2.8%****
9. Mavs 33-49, 1.7%
10. Pelicans 34-48, 1.1%*****
11. Hornets 36-46, 0.8%
12. Pistons 37-45, 0.7%
13. Nuggets 40-42, 0.6%
14. Heat 41-41, 0.5%
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Notes:
Wolves and Knicks split odds for the lottery because they finished the regular season with the same record. Should neither team wind up moving into the top 3, a coin will be flipped to see who picks 6th and 7th.

*-Celtics have right to swap picks with Nets (Garnett trade)
**-Lakers pick is conveyed to Sixers if Lakers fall out of top 3 (Carter-Williams trade)
***-Sixers have right to swap pick with Kings (Stauskas trade)
****-Kings pick goes to Bulls if it falls out of top 10 (Hickson trade)
*****-Pelicans pick goes to Kings as long as it doesn't end up in top 3 (Cousins trade)
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May the odds be ever in your favor!

Man the Lakers only have two less wins than us. We could (and should) try like hell to get them out of the top 3. And in the meantime pick up a franchise player.

Tied for fifth (3 way tie, but Minny is leading big). I'm quite happy right now. We better not start winning all of a sudden. This is huge.

Yes! We needed this kind of thread. Twolves are on verge of beating nets and moving down the 7th. That means we move to the 5th and are range to draft either Jackson or Isaac.

OrlandoDream wrote:Yes! We needed this kind of thread. Twolves are on verge of beating nets and moving down the 7th. That means we move to the 5th and are range to draft either Jackson or Isaac.

Not bad... but we need the fire of a guy like DSjr. Lets keep this tank going.

Thanks. I've stopped watching this train wreck so I'll need a one stop shop for lottery positioning info


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It would be nice if we lost 30 straight while AG and Elf go off.

I am excited now for the tank! 2017 draft baby!

Updated from tonight's finals. We are officially into the top 5. I'd love to get DSJ. Dude is gonna be a monster.

Don't **** up our tank Rob!!!

Top 5 draft pick would be amazing. Lets do this.

PennytoShaq wrote:Top 5 draft pick would be amazing. Lets do this.

Yeah another Mario will take us to the championship

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theres no point tanking (not that we need to TRY to tank), because even if we finish with the worst record, the lotto will just **** us anyways like it did the past 5 years, only year we got a good pick was the one year with no franchise players at the top, every year we miss out on an elite level player by 1 pick, i dont expect this year to be any different

For reasons that boggle the mind, Miami is on a 7-game wining streak and just caught Orlando in the standings.

drsd wrote:For reasons that boggle the mind, Miami is on a 7-game wining streak and just caught Orlando in the standings.

That won't last since dragic will be traded. That's why if we're going to tank we need do it now while other teams aren't.

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I get so pissed when i see brooklyn at number 1, the celtics are so lucky its unreal

The Effect wrote:theres no point tanking (not that we need to TRY to tank), because even if we finish with the worst record, the lotto will just **** us anyways like it did the past 5 years, only year we got a good pick was the one year with no franchise players at the top, every year we miss out on an elite level player by 1 pick, i dont expect this year to be any different

It is not about luck, it was purely lack of plan put us into this disaster. Organic growth my ass. A few meaning less wins and firing JV during the process of a needed hard tank is why we miss out on Embiid and Porzingis. Because of missing on these prospect, we traded Dipo for a 1 year rental and paid gigantic trunk of money to BB.