Rob Mahoney

Some turnover, some dashed hopes.

I feel like a lot of fans being extremely down bad this morning coming off of the draft lottery.

So you hate to see it for them.

And I think this is the hard part of the tanking experience, right?

It's like watching your team be bad all year only to see the lottery odds turn against you.

And so while it's certainly interesting for teams like the Clippers, who I know we're going to talk about, I just, you know, if you're a Nets fan, if you're a Grizzlies fan, if you're a Pacers fan, extremely rough stuff.

Well, nobody got it right because it's ping pong balls deciding the fates of many people and many, many millions of dollars.

And really, like, I think reshaping some of the league in certain ways, right?

If Oklahoma City had hit the jackpot, that would have been a disastrous thing for basically every other team in the Western Conference.

If the Pacers had been able to hold on to their pick and bring in Avicii Zubats next season, that could have been really bad news for the Knicks and the Celtics and the Pistons and anyone competing in the East.

So...

It's just randomness.

And the random number generator has struck again.

And we are here to make some sense of it.

But I don't know that there's any karmic balance to literally anything in the universe, Justin.

Yeah, sorry, I misspoke on the Grizz.

I meant the Sacramento Kings.

The Kings and the Nets being the ones that slid out of the top five.

Well, in defense of Kevin Pritchard, he did own it.

It wasn't just bad luck.