The Wizards win the Lottery!!!

[funkatron101]

Yeah I don't believe in the crap though. For example if we get the 5th pick I just hope we get the next Dwayne Wade and dont trade it, etc. Then when we trade it for a couple low tier NBA players I'll hope one of them has a career year and will resign with us. And when that fails I'll go back to hoping we score big in the lotto. It's a viscious cycle, but sometimes its not so much curses as it is ineptitude. Which I hope we grow out of...

You could always knock on the Wolves door. I wouldn't mind nabbing the 5th pick and selecting Wes Johnson to go along with Turner.

[Joe_Wiz]

OK, I'm not going to repost my analysis from the draft thread earlier today, but let me just say there's an awful lot of superstitious nonsense being posted here. Some of it, I trust, is tongue-in-cheek, but an awful lot of it seems to be sincere. Welcome to the Enlightenment, folks, though you seem to be a few centuries late (if you arrive at all).

As for the visual representation of the odds, thanks miller31time. I found it very helpful, especially in terms of visualizing the difference between us and GS. The relative probabilities of the 5th & 6th picks are more or less reversed, but the more striking difference is that in place of their roughly 10% chance of picking 4th, we have a comparable chance of picking 7th. Ugly, ugly -- shows you what one coin flip (or unfortunately made 3-pointer) can do to our prospects.

Oh well, nothing we can do now. (Actually, there's nothing anyone here could have done all along, unless some of you are 2009-2010 Wizards players, coaches, or execs). It's all up to the ping pong balls now.

[sfam]

I don't believe in suspicious nonsense the day of the event. So whether we have Irene or some other "good luck charm", it just doesn't matter, because God hates the Washington Wizards. I feel rather certain that he'll give us the #7 pick this year. Why not 8? Because we would all become convinced of supernatural intervention if we got 8th, but we've all come to expect at least a two spot drop.

[dobrojim]

I'm convinced Ji gets some kind of sick, sadistic pleasure out of this. Or he simply thinks curses are a bunch of bull... either or.

That said I'm pulling for top 3, and a shot at Favors wouldn't hurt either...

[dobrojim]

Well if its any consolation.. when the caps were up 3-1 against Montreal, i sent out a public question on facebook asking everyone if they wanted to play Philly or Boston in the next round.

I need this jinx to end because all my friends think I am a jinx and this would end it all if we got John Wall. I could post game threads,etc

Well that was really comforting Ji

seriously, how could you do this? Does anyone have actual proof that
Ji is a Wiz fan?

[dobrojim]

I normally don't believe in superstition. In this case, I almost
have to make an exception. Enlightenment, slightenment.
We're screwed after this.

[Ji]

We dont need to pick 1 to end the Jink...we just need to move up from 5. The odds are our favor based on prior results.

Figures the only time we win the lottery was when I was out of the country but the best played in the draft was supposedly Kwame Brown

[dobrojim]

We dont need to pick 1 to end the Jink...we just need to move up from 5. The odds are our favor based on prior results.

Figures the only time we win the lottery was when I was out of the country but the best played in the draft was supposedly Kwame Brown

I hope you weren't serious about past results affecting future outcomes.
That's like predicting a coin flip based on the last flip or 2 or 3....or 10.

[Halcyon]

Helpful graphic of lottery odds for each team...

Might as well color our entire circle purple.

[Tyrone Messby]

What teams winning the lottery would push us to 7th? 8th?

[Wizards2Lottery]

I swear to god, I didn't even visit the board and I knew **** Ji would have started this thread.

Are you kidding me?

[RickRoll_inDC]

So I leave the message boards for a few months and nothing has changed. Ji.....still my favorite scapegoat. If we land at top 2 pick now, I'll be more shocked than usual. This is all your fault.....you can't spell Jinx without Ji

[dopeismarcus]

Wow, I haven't been here in awhile. Hope we can get at least a top 3 pick.

[GhostsOfGil]

can we get a chat going? i will be at work, so i wont have access to a tv

[DallasShalDune]

I'd be pissed with 6 or lower. I'd be disappointed with 5. I'd be confused with 4, since we can't actually get the 4th pick. I'd be content with 3. I'd be very happy with 2. If we get 1 I'll jump up and down here at work. I think a lot of people would agree here on the Wizboard

[GhostsOfGil]

I'd be pissed with 6 or lower. I'd be dissapointed with 5. I'd be confused with 4, since we can't actually get the 4th pick. I'd be content with 3. I'd be very happy with 2. If we get 1 I'll jump up and down here at work. I think a lot of people would agree here on the Wizboard

lololololololo

[DallasShalDune]

When is this thing live?

[no D in Hibachi]

Anything is the top 3 will be beyond amazing to me. One way or another you'll get a top-flite PG, a very reliable 2, or a potentially dominate center. Anything beyond that will be utter choas!

[GhostsOfGil]

chat room?

[WizarDynasty]

this is like the bill murray ground hog day Bill Murray. Wake up and you already know what's going to happen.