Re: The rest of the season

[j.hironaka@unesco.org]

Thanks. For some reason, I thought a bottom three team was guaranteed to do no
worse than #3 overall (ergo no other lotto teams could move up all the way
into the top three). I must have been hallucinating. Let's hope for the luck
of the dice, I guess.

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Alex Wang wrote:

> > p.s. Can someone clarify how the lottery works this year?  I think one
> > of you mentioned that only the three worst teams will be put in a
> > lottery (the rest of the non-playoff teams will pick according to where
> > they finished). Is this true?
>
> I don't think there is any change in the lottery this year.
> Every team in the lottery has a chance at the top three picks.
> Basically, after the top three picks have been allocated, the remaining
> lottery teams choose in reverse order of their finish.
>
> So if the Celtics finished eighth, they could possibly be given the
> 1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 8th pick (or even 9th, 10th, or 11th), but not
> the fourth pick, which is why Pitino protected the pick in the event
> of a top three pick.