Fred Katz

And in the early 90s, the Magic win the Shaq lottery.

And that was when it was even lottery odds across.

And Pat Williams represented them on the dais.

And David Stern reads off the magic, win the lottery.

And Pat Williams goes over and he shakes David Stern's hands.

And he's very excited.

He won the lottery.

He said he brought a, like every type of good luck charm you could have.

He said he brought a rabbit's foot.

He brought a million other things, just like to maximize the good luck.

Next year he goes and he doesn't bring any good luck charms because he says, I'm not, and Pat told me this story long ago, but he says he doesn't bring any good luck charms because he's like, there's no way we're winning the lottery two years in a row.

So we'll just see what happens.

Next year, Magic win the lottery.

This is the Chris Weber draft.

Magic win the lottery again.

Pat says, from Pat's retelling of the story, Pat said that David Stern, when he shook his hand, he said it was the hardest handshake that he has ever felt in his entire life.

He felt like he broke every bone in his body.

He was so furious that the Magic had won a second consecutive lottery.

And he was like, that handshake was when I knew we were going to get rid of even lottery odds right across the board.

I loved the way that he used to tell that story.