Ricky O'Donnell
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407 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 15 Feb
Ricky O'Donnell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So the Bulls just have to hope for lottery luck to get that.
I will say that since the NBA flattened the lottery odds a few years back, I think it was maybe in 2018 or 19, the worst team in the league has never gotten the number one pick.
Last year, the Mavericks jumped up from 11 to 1 to get Cooper flagged.
The year before that, the Atlanta Hawks jumped up from 10 to 1.
They took Zachary Resiche.
So it's definitely possible for the Bulls to move up, you know, finishing the year as the ninth or tenth worst team.
But it is definitely a bad look for the NBA that all these teams are incentivized to lose.
You know, the games are still going on, but...
You got teams like the Jazz resting healthy players in the fourth quarter.
Lowry Markkinen's got 25 points at the end of the third quarter the other night, and they don't play him in the fourth to try to lose on purpose.
I don't know what the real best solution is.
I've always sort of wondered, like...
There's a lot of anecdotal evidence that maybe the NBA draft lottery is rigged or has been rigged in some years.
And I wonder if maybe that's the best way to punish the tankers is just to make sure teams like the Jazz don't get the number one pick for resting healthy starters down the line.
But otherwise, beyond abolishing the draft, there's no real easy solution to do this, I think.
I think you look at size, touch, and feel.
And you just need those things to be good at basketball.
Even when small ball was all the rage in the NBA, you still need positional size.
Touch is just shooting.
You gotta be able to make shots when you shoot.
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