Ruzious wrote:jeffsays wrote:hands11 wrote:Wait, I just remembered. If we miss the playoffs, we get to keep the pick.
Now where did I put that tank key...
Gotta be in one of these draws somewhere.
I thought the pick was top 12 protected? So couldn't we end up as the 13th position and miss the playoffs?
Correct. The 13th and 14th picks miss the playoffs.
It's 13th and 14th based on final draft order after the lottery, right? So if the Wizards have the 14th worst record, and somehow win the lottery, they get to keep the pick?
If that's the case, I'm going on record now: The Wizards will have the 10th worst record, and three of the teams behind them will defy astronomical odds and snatch the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd picks in the lottery, pushing the Wizards back to the 13th pick, which they will have to surrender to the Suns, who will pick a player (no doubt a two-way big) who will show he should have gone top-3 over a long and illustrious career, our only consolation being that we know EG wouldn't have picked him anyway, as he had his eye on Mortimersk McSnerdsky from Lo
osania, a 7'5" PG.