Chapter 234: Who is the champion?
Cracy Bars, Kevin Durant, Greg Oden and other hot rookies all appeared at the draw ceremony.
Greg Auden was a little embarrassed to see Cressie, and pretended not to see it and chatted with the agent next to him.
Cressy ignored him and chatted with Durant instead.
The biggest players in this year's lottery draw are the Memphis Grizzlies and Boston Celtics, who have a 25% and 19.9% chance of winning the lottery, respectively.
This is followed by the Los Angeles Clippers, who have a 13.8 percent chance of winning the lottery.
Jordan's Bobcats were in fourth place.
However, the lottery is too lucky, and you can't draw a good spot if you have a high probability.
It's hard to talk about probability.
In fact, every team has a chance, it depends on whether it can be drawn.
After the Charlotte Bobcats, it was the Seattle SuperSonics and the Portland Trail Blazers, these two teams that were still bad and face-wrenching, and they didn't eat the loss of being thick enough and not ruthless enough.
The lottery ceremony began, and the atmosphere at the scene was still quite ups and downs, which was the ultimate display of luck and the most stimulating human adrenaline.
The 2007 NBA Draft is customary, and the rules of the NBA Draft lottery are as follows: 14 ping-pong balls marked with the numbers 1 through 14 are placed in a drum-shaped barrel, and any 4 balls from them are taken to form a combination, for a total of 1,001 combinations. If one of the outcomes is ignored, the remaining 1,000 outcomes will be randomly assigned to 13 teams by the computer.
The worse the team in the regular season, the more results are distributed. The teams that finish bottom of the league will all have 225 results.
Then four balls are drawn like a lottery to produce a set of four numbers, and whichever team has this one in the result has the number one pick. The four balls are then put back into the bucket and the process is repeated twice, and the second and third picks are also in the name (note: if the ignored result is shaken, it will be void, and the ball is put back and the procedure is repeated). Teams that don't get the top three picks will get fourth through thirteenth rookies based on their regular season record, with the worse the record, the higher the draft pick.
Unexpectedly, the first to be drawn into the top three prize pools was the Los Angeles Clippers, and Elgin Baylor, who was in charge of the lottery, had been unlucky for a lifetime, and this time he was finally blessed by luck once, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Then the Memphis Grizzlies went out, and according to the record, they would be the fourth pick, and the team with the highest probability of winning the championship was really unlucky and didn't even draw in the top three.
The Celtics then followed in the footsteps of the Grizzlies, and they were also out, dropping straight to the fifth pick.
The two teams with the highest probabilities were kicked out of the top three.
Michael Jordan smiled, he felt his chance had come, and after the Boston Celtics and Memphis Grizzlies, who had the highest probability, it was the Los Angeles Clippers and his team with the highest probability.
Durant in the audience looked at the situation on the stage, covered his little heart, and said to Cressy: "Even buy Ka, it's incredible, the two teams with the highest probability are out, do the Bobcats have a chance?"
Before Cressy could say anything, Greg Oden, who came over at some point, spoke, and said with an expert face: "David Stern must have done it in the dark, and he won't let them get the top three picks if they are too obviously too bad." Trust me, that's what that guy would do. ”
Kevin Durant shook his head, he can't say this kind of thing.
Instead, Cressy said, "The Los Angeles Clippers might draw the No. 1 pick, which would help them trade." ”
"It depends on luck. Greg Oden said.
"Didn't you say there was a black-box operation?" asked Durant, curiously.
"Entering the top three David Stern can operate in the dark, but the top three teams will definitely not be able to sign specific positions, this is too obvious, this old man will not be so stupid. ”
Greg Oden tried to put himself in a "know everything" posture, but both Cressy and Durant could tell that this guy was just retelling the reasoning of some expert, perhaps someone on his behind-the-scenes team.
"Who do you think will draw the lottery?" Cressy asked with interest, no matter where Oden heard these words, there was some truth to them, and it didn't hurt to hear them.
Oden groaned for a moment, perhaps reminiscing, and then said, "I don't think the LA Clippers or Charlotte Bobcats are out of the question, and the way they look bad is too ugly, and David Stern won't help the trend." I think the top pick should be between the Seattle SuperSonics or the Portland Trail Blazers. ”
Then, his eyes fell on Cressie, and continued: "No matter who the champion lottery belongs to, I think this champion is mine, and you don't have to think about it, Cressie." ”
"What, you've been in contact with the team in advance?" Cressy glanced at him.
Auden stopped talking.
Cressy was right, both the SuperSonics and the Trail Blazers had approached Oden and made a draft promise.
The draw for the top three picks began, and the first to be fixed was the Los Angeles Clippers, who picked up the No. 3 pick.
The camera immediately swept to Cressie's side, and the three of them basically booked the top three positions, the difference was only who came first and who came last.
Cressy straightened his clothes and tie, and as the most handsome of the three, he still had a bit of idol baggage.
The second pick was drawn, the Seattle SuperSonics.
Unlucky Jordan, he's out, he's been unlucky in this regard.
Then the first pick was so determined, the Portland Trail Blazers, their luck exploded.
At this time, the camera continued to sweep over Cressy Bars and Greg Oden, and Earl Johnson, a well-known draft prediction expert on the scene, said: "The Portland Trail Blazers will definitely use the top pick to select Greg Oden, they have a center tradition, and the inside-outside combination of Greg Oden and Brandon Royden will become the most terrifying inside-outside combination in the NBA." ”
Some reporters can't wait to put the microphone on Trail Blazers manager Kevin Pritchard, and they want to know, who will Kevin Pritchard choose, and who will be the top pick this year?
Kevin Pritchard said, "There is no doubt that we will go with Greg Oden, who is one of the best players of the year. What, you say Cressie, he's not bad either, but it's not in our puzzle. ”
At this time, the scale of the reporters around Cressie, who was hugely controversial, was not far behind that of Kevin Pritchard.
It makes both Auden and Durant a little jealous in their hearts, especially Oden, who has the promise of the Trail Blazers draft, this guy has already regarded himself as the top pick.
Cressy faced reporters' questions: "I'm stronger than when I was in the NCAA finals, and the training during this period has definitely been effective." "Yes, I've been training all this time, and all the lace news is fake. ”