Zach Lowe

And so like two, three, four, one, eight, whatever that belongs to the Wizards and the Wizards come up next year.

There's only going to be like there's going to be, I think, 37 balls and they're just going to be like team balls.

Like it's just going to have logos like the teams at the top of the lottery get three balls.

The relegation zone teams and some other teams get to the best.

The best teams, quote unquote, get one.

And they don't exactly know how they're going to do it next year.

A couple of rumblings I heard yesterday was they have definitely taken note of the NHL making like a really good television show out of the lottery drawing, like with the odds in real time on a big screen at the sphere.

I guess it was at the sphere.

I don't know.

They've definitely made note of that.

And there's there's a world in which the plan is the proposal is to draw all 16 spots.

And there's a world in which they actually draw from 16 to one in reverse order.

And the way that would work is process of elimination.

One way it could work is process of elimination.

So if you're one of the teams that has three balls and your ball comes up for the 16th pick, that doesn't mean you get the 16th pick.

That means you have two balls left in the kitty.

They draw again for the 16th pick.

And the first team that has like one, that's their last ball.

They get the 16th pick, and you go from there.

So it would be this kind of thrilling, like, oh, my God, we have one ball left.