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And we'll look ahead to tonight's two game fours in Cleveland and in L.A.
But first, we start...
This Monday morning with the Washington Wizards winning the draft lottery on Sunday.
Happy Mother's Day to the Wizards.
They will pick first overall for the first time since choosing John Wall in that spot in 2010.
Wall was the Wizards' on-stage representative for yesterday's lottery, so...
Good job, NBA scriptwriters.
The Utah Jazz moved up on lottery day for the first time in the organization's history to number two.
The Memphis Grizzlies moved up three spots to number three.
And the Chicago Bulls, yes, under a new front office, jumped all the way from number nine to number four.
The big takeaway in terms of the losers of it all, the Pacers lost their protected top four pick to the Clippers.
who got the number five pick.
But we'll get into other winners and losers here in a second.
Let's just talk about the Wizards, though.
Getting this done and getting the number one pick in a loaded draft.
So finally, the worst team in the league gets the number one pick.
How fitting is this now that we get rid of this actual strategy or style of lottery?
Yeah, Adam Silver said, see, tanking works.
That's why we got to change some things up a little bit here.
But this is just amazing for the Wizards.