Im wearing the same clothing that I did last year for the lottery, all day tomorrow…

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

...and Jorga, make sure you have that simulator window open with the #1 pick. Now, if we can just scrounge up fatty…

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.

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.

All three belong to the same team?

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.

and we took Rose… Last year I wore my fome finger during the final three drawings so that we would get #1

is on my desk at work.

Let’s rock this thing!

http://slamonline.com/online/2008/05/jay-z-to-provide-lottery-luck-for-his-team-its-the-nets-not-cavs/

thats where our card will be. My gut told me so…

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

...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.

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.

OMG…..I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!!11

Just practicing.

Second try, i got Rose, with the first pick!!!

thats the same thing i did last year with Oden!!!!

Rose here we come baby

Both Tony and Wilbon said they wanted us to get #1 so they could watch our team destroy people with Rose at the helm….

If Dave really truly wants the lottery system to be changed, then he should be hopin’ and prayin’ for the Blazers to win, because everyone will be so damn angry they’ll HAVE to make changes.

Really, we’d be doing all of the future bad teams a favor, and keeping the league strong. And there aren’t any more dynasties in the NBA, and we’d be solving that problem as well.

Gosh, we’re good people.

Mortimer

I won´t need to watch the games in the middle of the night. I just wake up in the morning and look if we have won by more than 20 or more than 40.

We don’t need ‘em. What confidence can one take in a good luck charm? They’re fleeting and never provide any real confidence. What I do have confidence in is getting the number one pick. Not because I did anything, or the Blazers did anything, or anyone else did anything, but just because they are. And now in good Germanic fashion, I will not wear the same clothes, sit in the same chair, have any lottery simulators up on my screen, wear my lucky underwear or any of those things. That is how confident I am.

In terms of creating good juju, is it better for me to wear my oden t-shirt, blazers hat, and have my foam finger handy, or to disperse the apparel among three different people?

I think the ESPN 360 will carry it, but it says it doesn’t start until 8:00 PM EST

I’m prepared for the good fortunes today. I’m holding the awesome, sweet 3 month old son o’ mine, Landon Roy. He was named in tribute to you-know-who; I’m locating his Blazer onesie and my jersey right now….. Go Blazers! Same luck as last year!

Are up to something. Bird looks bored.

I got my luckiest of my lucky headbands, my Blazer shirt and my Blazer black road shorts. I am completely ready to send lotsa good vibrations towards New Jersey.

Yes, I am a virgin.

Mortimer

He be comin’ ‘round da mountain.

To quote the man, Fatty: “Book it.”

...American Idol?

My money’s on David.

Hahahaha!

Nothing could duplicate last year but it would still be pretty interesting to not see our envelope at #13.

I went through a brief phase where I swore you were KP, for some reason….

Hurry up and lottery already, what am I, King of Waiting for the Lottery to be done Already? No, I am not the King of Waiting for the Lottery to be done Already. Geez.

Landon & I are in our gear…and Mrs. Roy just took dorky pics of us….

this is one Bottom Three that I wouldn’t mind.

Avery as an announcer!

Works for me.

An informal poll:

Big Mac, Quarter Pounder, Filet-o-Fish, McNuggets, or Something Else?

I haven’t been in years, but were I to go back it would be a Big Mac for me. I used to love those.

ugh David Stern. I hate that guy.

Lotto hapinin’

‘nuff said.

Stuck in his teeth.

a No Brainer

My fiance is sick and she’ll want me to pick her up early today I bet, right when they’re announcing the draft order.

Thank goodness we got bad traffic here… always a good excuse to be late somewhere.

...just testing

Is Nolan Ryan’s niece.

Looks SO MUCH like Tony Soprano now.

That whole huddle they just showed there had Blazer connections.

the portland trailblazers select #2
just watch…

is KP in the back room?

C’mon, Stern. OBVIOUS Marketing opportunity.

Conspiracy theorists are gonna think Paul Allen paid off the ping pong balls…

I’d like Minny and Memphis to get the 2 top picks because their idiot GMs would screw it up and never build a team capable of taking on the Oden/Roy Blazers.

I know he’s before my time, but wasn’t Unseld a beast and a half?

Bilas has Rush at #14- don’t most guys have him as a 2nd rounder?

I think I’m just going to answer “The Blazers should definitely take Derrick Rose if he’s still available.” That should work no matter what pick we get.

Anyone know anything about him?

I can’t wait anymore!

When I was a kid I saw Raiders, in the theater, about 10 times. But this tie-in stuff is way stupid.

That’’s pretty cool.

or what?

Oden/Durant or Rose/Beasley?

...that if we’re not 13th or 14th, we get top 3?
I thought I read something about that.