Re: Draft lottery

[Adam Suchocki <Twilight@world.std.com>]

There is no role forbidding a team from getting the number one pick two 
years in a row.  There is a rule saying you cannot trade away first 
round picks in consecutive years, but that's about as close to a 
restriction on first round picks as it gets.


On a different topic, has anyone noticed how no one is supporting Peter 
May's claim that ML is going to resign as both Director of Player 
Personel and Coach.  After quoting his super secret inside source, and 
then quoting himself quoting his super secret source (as if he was 
another person), May has suddenly gone quiet on the topic.  Not 
surpisingly, most of the local sportswriters have come out saying ML is 
probably not gone from both roles, but may step down as coach - even 
Jacki Macmullen (not a Carr fan) has said she believes ML will be back 
in some capacity next year.  ML may not come back, but for now I'm 
chalking up his ML is leaving announcement as another one of his made up 
stories where he invents an make believe secret source and then spreads 
wild speculation to make it look like he knows something that no one 
else does.  He's not even the Celtics write for the Globe, but he 
occasionally writes Celtic stories with wild claims (secret source says 
ML has resigned, secret source says Todd Day will be cut befor start of 
'96 season, secret source says there is a trade or Barros for Calbert 
Cheaney).  This guy seems to be using Vescey's reporting tactics, and is 
right less often than Peter Vescey (hard to believe).  

Adam
> I have a question.  Isn't there a rule stating that a team cannot
> recieve the no.1 pick two years in a row?  If  this is correct, then
> Toronto, Vancouver AND Philly would be ineligible for the no.1 pick.
> That would make the C's chances of getting it 41.38% not 36.31%
> Would this be right?
> 
> Chris Mathew
> cmathew@nw.tassie.net.au