Lottery Drawing Open Thread
by Dave
on May 20, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
In what will hopefully be the last rendition of an annual tradition for a while, here is the official Open Thread for today's lottery drawing. Coverage starts at 4:30 Pacific on ESPN if you want to chat while the balls are shuffled and the order announced.
The process:
Team reps will gather in a closed room where ping-pong balls will be chosen in combinations of four.
Each team has a certain number of four-digit combinations. Teams with worse regular-season records have more combinations. Teams with better records have fewer. Miami has 250 out of 1000 possible. Golden State has 5. The Blazers have 6.
Three four-digit combinations will be drawn. The first combination will be for the first pick in the draft. The second combination for the second, the third for the third. After the top three picks are selected the remaining teams are seeded from 4-14 in order of regular season finish. If you want to see the exact number of combinations for each team and how ties between teams with the same record were resolved, Click Here.
After the drawings are complete the team logos will be placed in envelopes. They will be revealed, from the 14th pick to the 1st, on ESPN.
Possible Outcomes for the Blazers
--If Golden State wins a Top 3 pick and the Blazers do not, Portland will pick 14th. Portland's logo will then be the first revealed on the lottery show.
--If neither Golden State nor Portland move up the Blazers will pick 13th. It doesn't matter who else moves up as the Blazers are behind them all. (The 12 teams in front of us can get shuffled in any order you can imagine...there are still 12 of them.) In this case Portland's logo will be revealed second on the lottery show.
--If Portland moves up we will know it immediately when the second envelope is revealed. If you don't see the Blazer pinwheel in the first two envelopes that means we once again have a Top 3 pick. We'll have to wait to find out which one it is.
Have fun commenting and bringing good juju to the Blazers today! I'll talk to you guys around 4:30. If you'd like to remember how things went around here last year then read the 2007 Lottery Commemorative Thread. Ah...such a SWEET time! If you don't get serious tingles up your spine reading that then something is probably wrong with your spine...or your tingler.
--Dave (blazersub@yahoo.com)
P.S. I don't know if the chances are too small to bother or if everybody got wise to my pet peeve, but THANK YOU ALL for not posting 1,600 "lottery simulator" threads this year! I managed to get through the whole lottery season without reading one "I just ran the simulator and the Blazers got second!" post. Hallelujah!
P.P.S. You can also check out Dwight Jaynes' "What If" column.
P.P.P.S. And Chip Crain's humorous look at the reasons each team should win the lottery tonight.
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I know it's a long shot but...
Im wearing the same clothing that I did last year for the lottery, all day tomorrow…
by Blazermaniac77 on May 20, 2008 12:11 AM PDT 0 recs
That reminds me
I gotta wear my lucky mystery red Blazer shirt I never bought and mysteriously ended up in my closet back in my parents place. I had never boughten it, never seen it in my life, and when I went home to visit my family before the draft I looked in my closet to get my basketball to bring back down to LA… and sitting there was a red Blazer Booster t-shirt, folded up even, on a shelf in my closet. What the heck?
Crazy story, man, I’m telling ya. I wore the shirt and look at us now: destined to be champions.
So, I gotta wear that shirt. I almost wore it to the Blazer vs Lakers game I went to down here, but decided to save it for the lottery and/or playoffs. With that shirt and my lucky headband, is it even possible we don’t move up in the draft order?
Mortimer
by Mortimer on
May 20, 2008 12:17 AM PDT
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crap...I forgot what I wore
I’ll just wear 7 layers just to be safe.
BINGO, BANGO, BONGO
by blzrfan on
May 20, 2008 12:53 AM PDT
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7 is our lucky number
1977
We drafted Foye with the 7th pick and then mysteriously traded him for Brandon Roy who wears number 7
Coincidence?
by Blazermaniac77 on
May 20, 2008 10:35 AM PDT
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I'm wearing my Oden shirt
everyone’s got to do their part to create good mojo
Woof
by Charles Barkley McLovin on
May 20, 2008 9:34 AM PDT
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same wih me
If it fills a need, if it fills a rebuilding situation. And my goal is to fill and rebuild and I am not going to be shortsighted.
- Isiah Thomas
by JTDuck22 on
May 20, 2008 11:07 AM PDT
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But running the simulator until we got the #1
Is what got us the #1 pick last season, I heard. The NBA just takes whoever wins the first pick the most when the most faithful fans run the simulator, I remember being revealed around the time of the Donaghy revelations last summer. It kinda got overshadowed with that news, but yeah, that’s how the top pick is decided.
The lottery really snuck up on me this year; I had no idea until the other day it was so damn soon. Fun! I like watching us getting undeserved top 3 picks.
My own simulator sez the two worst teams will not get the #1 or #2 pick, and some team’s fans will be upset that they didn’t get the high pick they ‘deserved’. I hope the broadcast cuts back to that loser Celtic fan with a backwards hat holding his face in his hands, shocked his tankariffic team didn’t tank their way to Oden. No matter how bad my day can be, I can just relax and think back to that shot, and schadenfreude my way to happiness.
Mortimer
by Mortimer on May 20, 2008 12:13 AM PDT 0 recs
Also
We might have 6 number combos, but it only takes one. We got 5 too many! What a waste.
Why do other teams even exist? Makes no sense.
Mortimer
by Mortimer on
May 20, 2008 12:40 AM PDT
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I ran that thing at least 50 times and came up empty
Golden State got the #1 pick, twice.
BINGO, BANGO, BONGO
by blzrfan on
May 20, 2008 12:54 AM PDT
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Same
I left it open last year ever since getting the #1 on the first try, and that was about a week before the draft (Thanks college, for paying my electricity bill).
No luck this time. :(
by rmcdougall on
May 20, 2008 7:49 AM PDT
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4:30 AM or PM?
It never rains for everibody´s pleasure.
by amlmart1 on May 20, 2008 1:22 AM PDT 0 recs
4:30 PM Pacific time.
"We comin along." Travis Outlaw
by annthefan on May 20, 2008 3:46 AM PDT 0 recs
Thanks. It will be 5-21 1:30AM for me.
It never rains for everibody´s pleasure.
by amlmart1 on
May 20, 2008 4:13 AM PDT
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Hmmm...
I never really understood american time…
Could you please tell me what time will the lottery start and end for us in Europe ?
Yes, I’m a bit lazy and stupid, but in the deep I’m a good guy who thanks you with sincerity…
by Blenzer on
May 20, 2008 8:15 AM PDT
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Couldn´t we find a team further?.
I can follow the team only when I´m insomniac.
It never rains for everibody´s pleasure.
by amlmart1 on
May 20, 2008 8:36 AM PDT
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But unfortunately
I don’t have internet in house, so I’ll know Portland’s position only after I wake up, may it be a good motivation for that always hard moment
by Blenzer on
May 20, 2008 9:01 AM PDT
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Big true.
It never rains for everibody´s pleasure.
by amlmart1 on
May 20, 2008 9:08 AM PDT
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Big true
Wow. I am going to start saying that now. Awesome.
"I never worried if there would be an earthquake or something in Oregon, but now I can do." amlmart1
by Sabonis4Ever on
May 20, 2008 1:40 PM PDT
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Dave, don't forget good luck cat...
...and Jorga, make sure you have that simulator window open with the #1 pick. Now, if we can just scrounge up fatty…
by Blazerholic on May 20, 2008 6:07 AM PDT 0 recs
Fatty
I’ve been wondering when Fatty’s self-imposed ban ends. Hopefully really soon, but I was thinking it might not be until the end of the summer.
by jc burg on
May 20, 2008 10:06 AM PDT
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Long story short
Fatty was known to make predictions and be so sure of his prediction, and he made the prediction that the arthroscopic surgery on Oden would turn out to be nothing and he’d be back for Opening Day. He said if Oden is out longer, he would bad himself for a full year, that is how sure he was that everything was fine. Well, we know the rest of the story.
As far as legacies and legends go, it was a pretty sly move on Fatty’s part, because now he’s like a mythical, legendary figure that people now only speak fondly of and new Blazers Edge members just dream about.
So, Fatty banned himself to absorb the sin of Oden’s injury, and he had other stuff to take care of in his real life as well (I think). Towards the end of the Summer, I’d guess would be the year anniversary.
Mortimer
by Mortimer on
May 20, 2008 11:41 AM PDT
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Maybe
when he returns he’ll have learnt how to put some punctuation in his messages…
by Blenzer on
May 20, 2008 11:59 AM PDT
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doubtful
i didn’t always read them because they were tough to read. Also… i think we want to take some punctuation OUT of his messages. They had too many.
Here's to being hated. Come on #1 pick!
by ratbastird on
May 20, 2008 1:47 PM PDT
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I may not understand
But I remember his posts being like a big opaque granite block of words, without punctuation…
Could it be that he’s already at the level of a god-like, wich messages are viewed differently by humans.
by Blenzer on
May 21, 2008 6:46 AM PDT
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People here play more sarcasm than bakeetball.
It never rains for everibody´s pleasure.
by amlmart1 on
May 21, 2008 9:35 AM PDT
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basketball
It never rains for everibody´s pleasure.
by amlmart1 on
May 21, 2008 9:35 AM PDT
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I've asked myself
if it was a joke, then got unsure of it…
I’ve realized that irony and sarcasm is pretty common around here, and though I enjoy it and do it a lot in real life, it’s sometimes hard to understand through screens for non english native-tongue people (don’t know how to say it…).
by Blenzer on
May 21, 2008 11:49 AM PDT
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You are telling mi story here.
But i dare, practice and have a lot fun. Nobody has bad intentions. And i suppose you know TominHawaii, the little devil of BlazersEdge, and some other genius of humor around here. Very funny. On the other hand, as I´ve stated my ignorance, i can write fool things that nobody takes bad and even i don´t understand. I call that my foreigner licence.
It never rains for everibody´s pleasure.
by amlmart1 on
May 21, 2008 1:22 PM PDT
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Fulfilling my office with joy.
Draft day finally now is here,
It is upon us at long last.
The order of picking is near,
It is approaching rather fast.
Who will get the number one pick,
We all earnestly want to know.
That is all but me, it’s no trick.
All the others’ll be filled with woe.
Number one will go to Portland,
The balance for years will be lost.
The league will walk on the court stunned,
At the gift to us fortune tossed.
And this Rose has no other name,
Sweet indeed to our noses he’ll smell.
Parity will go without claim,
Portland’s dominance sure’ll be swell.
One of Two Official Blazer's Edge Poets Laureate for the 2008-2009 Season
"Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary." - Patrick McManus
by T Darkstar on May 20, 2008 6:30 AM PDT 0 recs
So beautiful
I almost cried.
Thanks PA, KP, Nate, BRoy, LMA, GO, 'Tell, Trout, JJ's, Buffet, Blake (not Blakey), Thrilla Hundred-dolla Billa, McBob (just 'cuz you're cool), Sergio (just 'cuz you've got flash), and Raef (ummm...just 'cuz)....and Dean Demo, Maurice, Monty (You rock Monty!), Bill Bayno (good luck with your new job), Bobby, Jay, and everyone else I'm forgetting (scouts, other front office people) who made the Return of Rip City possible, including the media (Mike B., Casey, Dave, Ben). And tominhawaii. Can't forget him.
by prezofdeath on
May 20, 2008 6:43 AM PDT
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I am crying
but from trying to say “sure’ll be swell” out loud
"its tough to play with one eye, unless you're a pirate." Delonte West
by Honka Playboy on
May 20, 2008 1:00 PM PDT
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My heart soars with your lovely words.
"We comin along." Travis Outlaw
by annthefan on
May 20, 2008 1:06 PM PDT
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whoos gonna represent us?
Oden...Aldridge...Roy.....THE REAL BIG THREE
Watch my brandon roy vid http://youtube.com/watch?v=RC3Byp4ID1E
by CroRupt on May 20, 2008 6:41 AM PDT 0 recs
I remember it was not Roy
I don’t remember who, but darn it… we should have stuck with Roy!!!
Here's to being hated. Come on #1 pick!
by ratbastird on
May 20, 2008 7:34 AM PDT
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Maybe I should schedule a massage?
That’s what I was doing the last time we won, but as we didn’t send out Roy, I’m a little doubtful this year.
I didn’t do the mock draft last year because I thought it was silly. This year there was one post, so I thought I’d give it a whirl as the person posting said it took 50 tries. I got third in ten and i was happy.
It is a silly thing though.
Here's to being hated. Come on #1 pick!
by ratbastird on May 20, 2008 7:33 AM PDT 0 recs
Yes - schedule massage!
and may both you and the Blazers have Happy Endings!
couldn’t someone else have made that reference? It was too horrifying to even really craft a response. And yet I will hit Post…
"its tough to play with one eye, unless you're a pirate." Delonte West
by Honka Playboy on
May 20, 2008 1:03 PM PDT
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Nice One
That came to my mind too.
Hello, I am tominhawaii, think of me as the irritating tobacco ads of Blazer's Edge.
by tominhawaii on
May 20, 2008 1:14 PM PDT
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I will have a happy ending
when I see my girlfriend in portland again.
I like my massages massagey. why pay for something you can get for free, and WHY would I want to pass up and awesome leg and back massage for something else? Seriously… good massage therapists are TOUGH to find and George is the best!
Still want that happy ending?
Here's to being hated. Come on #1 pick!
by ratbastird on
May 20, 2008 1:50 PM PDT
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no, I'm sorry...
and a little bitter that our Hawaiian friend did not bite first. Enjoy your massage; let the Blazers get lucky and bring Derrick Rose to Roseland
"its tough to play with one eye, unless you're a pirate." Delonte West
by Honka Playboy on
May 20, 2008 5:17 PM PDT
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nice question
If it fills a need, if it fills a rebuilding situation. And my goal is to fill and rebuild and I am not going to be shortsighted.
- Isiah Thomas
by JTDuck22 on
May 20, 2008 9:02 AM PDT
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They draw ...and if it is
a team that is already in the top 3 they throws the balls back into the popcorn machine and grab a new set until they have another team
"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss" Robert A. Heinlein
by 92wastheyear on
May 20, 2008 9:05 AM PDT
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97.82 percent chance we'll draw #13 or #14.
Still, it’ll be fun to see who does get #1 or #2. I’m sort of hoping the Sonics will be one of them. A top two pick two years running along with the other future #1 picks they’ve been amassing could set them up to be a very strong team. Maybe it would awaken Seattle residents to find a way to keep their team.
by TwoDeep on May 20, 2008 8:30 AM PDT 0 recs
Memphis' Expendable Point Guards
Is the name of the game, for me, tonight.
For instance: If Memphis draws #1, they pretty much have to grab Rose.
Might Conley or Lowry become available if that happened?
by Samuelson on May 20, 2008 8:59 AM PDT 0 recs
I just got the second pick
and we took Rose… Last year I wore my fome finger during the final three drawings so that we would get #1
If it fills a need, if it fills a rebuilding situation. And my goal is to fill and rebuild and I am not going to be shortsighted.
- Isiah Thomas
by JTDuck22 on May 20, 2008 9:09 AM PDT 0 recs
I am doing everything exactly the same as last year
Last year I went to starbucks, got on a flight to New Jersey, got a cab, and delivered a ransom note demanding the #1 pick to David Stern, complete with photographs of his house and workplace.
Here’s hoping it works this year…
by TimG on May 20, 2008 9:33 AM PDT 0 recs
Good Job
I had a feeling it wasn’t REALLY my Lucky Outfit last year, though I’m wearing it again just in case.
by Corvid on
May 20, 2008 12:20 PM PDT
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My Brandon Roy bobblehead
is on my desk at work.
Let’s rock this thing!
by Garces on May 20, 2008 10:15 AM PDT 0 recs
check it
If it fills a need, if it fills a rebuilding situation. And my goal is to fill and rebuild and I am not going to be shortsighted.
- Isiah Thomas
by JTDuck22 on May 20, 2008 11:16 AM PDT 0 recs
#3 PICK
thats where our card will be. My gut told me so…
RUDY > MJ
by myemic23 on May 20, 2008 11:40 AM PDT 0 recs
Hey
Mine too.
And we trade it for Calderon and Harris.
Yup, both of them! Why pick just one? Get both, let ‘em PROVE who is the better fit for the Blazers. It’s the only way to settle this!
Mortimer
by Mortimer on
May 20, 2008 11:42 AM PDT
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I was just going to post
that I have a feeling we end up with #3. Can’t wait to find out!
by mark twain on
May 20, 2008 11:43 AM PDT
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#3
is what I got in the random draft lottery tester thing simulator.
Here's to being hated. Come on #1 pick!
by ratbastird on
May 20, 2008 1:52 PM PDT
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me too
5th try, I decided to leave up the screen even if Dave hates me for it [:3)
RUDY > MJ
by myemic23 on
May 20, 2008 2:16 PM PDT
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Dave Don't Hate
He brings love, peace, and understanding to Blazers Edge. He’s the Blazers Moses. Just don’t let him punch you.
Hello, I am tominhawaii, think of me as the irritating tobacco ads of Blazer's Edge.
by tominhawaii on
May 20, 2008 2:19 PM PDT
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As a good luck thing
I went thru the lottery machine (sorry Dave) about 10-12 times and have the # 2 pick up on my desk top at work. Just to keep the good vibe going
"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss" Robert A. Heinlein
by 92wastheyear on May 20, 2008 11:50 AM PDT 0 recs
The Absence....
...of “We just got the first simulated pick!” comments this year is likely due to the simple facts that
a) We no longer have to depend on the lottery to get us help.
and
b) Our odds are so slim this year, and lightning rarely strikes twice, anyway.
Remember, getting #1 last year was just karmic payback for getting stuck with the #4 pick the year before (despite having the worst record).
If karma is still in play, we’ll probably be picking #14 this year.
Wherever you go, there you are.
by Majikj0n on May 20, 2008 11:55 AM PDT 0 recs
of course that would mean...
...that karma gave GS one of the top 3. That might be a stretch. But I see what you’re saying.
by shralpster on
May 20, 2008 12:17 PM PDT
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Karma should favor GS anyway....
...I mean, they had a record that in any other year is a lock for a playoff spot, yet here they are in the lottery?
And given the state of that Franchise, they’ve pretty much hit their ceiling as they are currently assembled, anyway. Davis might not stay. Nelson is always a mercurial force. This team is going to struggle in coming years, unless they get a stroke of good luck here and there.
Honestly, I would not mind seeing GS getting a top pick over teams like the Knicks and Heat.
Wherever you go, there you are.
by Majikj0n on
May 20, 2008 12:24 PM PDT
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Hmm, let's see . . .
Last year I dreamt we got the second pick and drafted Durant. I was visiting a friend in Seattle at the time, so maybe it didn’t count because I wasn’t in my own bed. I haven’t had any lottery dreams this year, so I guess that means we’re getting the #3.
by Corvid on May 20, 2008 12:34 PM PDT 0 recs
HOLY CRAP BLAZERS GOT TEH FIRST PICK
OMG…..I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!11
Just practicing.
"I never worried if there would be an earthquake or something in Oregon, but now I can do." amlmart1
by Sabonis4Ever on May 20, 2008 1:34 PM PDT 0 recs
i will probably poop my pants
if we get #1 again. the uprising around the country would be hilarious!
by mark twain on
May 20, 2008 1:37 PM PDT
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What will you do if we get number 2?
Hello, I am tominhawaii, think of me as the irritating tobacco ads of Blazer's Edge.
by tominhawaii on
May 20, 2008 1:52 PM PDT
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obviously
he’ll just pee it then.
I hope for his sake we’re number 2.
Here's to being hated. Come on #1 pick!
by ratbastird on
May 20, 2008 1:53 PM PDT
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Wait
Wouldn’t it be the other way around? I think #2 is pretty self explanatory.
by TimG on
May 20, 2008 3:28 PM PDT
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Mock Draft
Second try, i got Rose, with the first pick!!!
thats the same thing i did last year with Oden!!!!
Rose here we come baby
life is like a bank, you can only take out as much as you put in. -Cal Ripken Sr.
by winnerwinner on May 20, 2008 1:40 PM PDT 0 recs