2014 Draft Lottery

[verbal8]

I thought/think it'd be interesting to see the Lakers get Exum.

The Lakers with a top 3 pick and cap space = trade for Kevin Love. With the number 1 they probably could have dumped Nash and/or gotten a pick back.

[fishercob]

I would be surprised if Exum got past Orlando. Exum/Oladipo vs. Wall/Beal is going to a crazy battle for years to come.

[dobrojim]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what was being posted but there was no way
our foregone pick could have moved up. It wasn't in the lotto. PHO other pick
could've moved up but the chances of that were vanishingly small.

How will CLE blow it this year?

[hands11]

I'm sure the Cavs will find a way to blow another lottery pick, great result.

With the #1 pick, CLE takes.

Spoiler:

Marcus Smart

Almost nothing Cleveland might do will surprise me, but that would surprise me.

Another thing that would surprise me is if Cleveland isn't in the lottery again next year.

LOL

Thought some would get a laugh out of that.

Anyway. CLE getting the #1 is

4x #1 picks since 2003 and 3x in 4 years. That's amazing.
And they had another in 1986. that 5x and another in 1971 that 6x

Trailblazers had 3x between 1972 and 1978
Rockets had 4x between 1976 and 2002 and 5x total if you include 1968...The BIg E. Elvin Hayes

Spurs, they have only had two 1987 D Robinson and 1997 Tim Duncan.

[hands11]

Does everyone think the Cavs will keep hold of Kyrie?

As of right now. WTHKs

But you would think LA would be a place for him in the future. Something doesn't seem to fit to me about Kyrie staying in CLE.

When I think of CLE, I think of Brad Daugherty

They aren't ever going to be able to keep players like LeBron or Kryie.

They are drafting over their heads. If they are going to draft players like that, they need to except they aren't staying and trade them at their peak for players that will stick around.

[Dark Faze]

funny thing about cleveland is they have a decent change of choosing another bust

I think Wiggins is a slightly better version of Harrison Barnes and Embiid, while extremely talented, really worries me with developing a stress injury with such little basketball under his belt.

[BruceO]

minnesotta was watching embid workout. The way Cleveland will scrwew up this draft is trading embid for love who will not resign long term with Cleveland while embid whether all star or not will be a more fundamentally sound all around player to build on

[FAH1223]

Nene for #8?

Ya'll ninjas smokin crack.

I mean, the #5 pick was traded for Mike Miller and Randy Foye once upon a time.

[CLIN]

minnesotta was watching embid workout. The way Cleveland will scrwew up this draft is trading embid for love who will not resign long term with Cleveland while embid whether all star or not will be a more fundamentally sound all around player to build on

Since this is the easiest way for cleveland to screwup this draft, the nba gods will make it so

love to cleveland

[hands11]

minnesotta was watching embid workout. The way Cleveland will scrwew up this draft is trading embid for love who will not resign long term with Cleveland while embid whether all star or not will be a more fundamentally sound all around player to build on

Agreed. No way Love would stay there. Embiid might. I don't think Kryie will stay. So what will that team look like in 2015 when Kyrie leaves ? I don't see any player that has a chance to leaving, sticking around.

Their best bet is to trade their young pieces while they can for vets on 3-4 year contracts and hope they can put enough of them together that they can repair their reputation.

They should trade Kyrie next year while they can still get something for him.

If Deng and Hawes leave, they very well could be hosed for a long time.

They just didn't get good enough fast enough to keep Kyrie around. All those #1s and they are likely still going to suck. And if that happens, they will be the laughing stock of the league for many moons.