Zach Lowe

This is what you did.

But who was your biggest winner of the night other than twenty nine teams?

Because Oklahoma City did not move up.

top so you just nailed why it's my favorite thing the absurdist nature of it watching these genius highly accomplished people top of their fields just sit there and sweat and fret over a literally like an 80s newscast like here let's bring on the meteorologist to pull out the tonight's lottery balls um

Uh, so, and next year, by the way, we don't exactly know how it's going to be, but the proposal is this three, two, one system where instead of these, like, you know, now you get these four ping pong, there's 14 ping pong balls numbered one to 14 and teams are assigned four number combinations of those ping pong balls.

There's a thousand combinations.

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.