Re: Lottery

I thought Vancouver and Toronto are excluded from the top three picks?
This puts the celtics at #2.

- -steve


On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 14:15:44 +0000, you expressed these thoughts:

>I haven't done it in a while, so I thought I'd re-compute the C's=20
>lottery odds.  Right now (Sunday 1/12/96), ranking the teams=20
>backwards, we have Vancouver #1, Boston #3, Toronto #8 and Dallas #9.=20
>This gives odds as follows:
>
>Odds the C's get the first pick:  24.3%
>Odds the C's get the first or second pick:  33.4%
>
>It's pretty grim for all of you Duncan-lovers.  Right now Philly's got=20
>a better shot at the first pick (27.7%).
>
>On an unrelated note, when is this lunacy with Walker playing center=20
>going to stop?  In addition to the fact that he may stand a higher =
chance of=20
>getting himself hurt, it's not helping him develop either.  I'd=20
>rather see a true (and surely truely bad) center out there.  Does=20
>anyone else think this may be hurting Antoine?
>
>Ray
>

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