coins > pingpong balls (C`s get 19th pick)

[thebirdman]

Finally some luck draft wise...

Six ties among teams that finished the 2009-10 NBA regular season with identical records were broken today through random drawings to help determine the order of selection for the 2010 NBA Draft, which will be held on Thursday, June 24 at The WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

The drawings were conducted earlier today in New York City at the Board of Governors meeting by Stu Jackson, NBA Executive Vice President, Basketball Operations.

The results of the drawings:

- Utah (53-29) won a tiebreaker with Atlanta and Denver; Atlanta then won a tie-breaker with Denver - Boston (50-32) won a tiebreaker with San Antonio, Oklahoma City and Portland; San Antonio then won a tie-breaker with Oklahoma City and Portland; Oklahoma City then won a tie-breaker with Portland - Memphis (40-42) won a tiebreaker with Toronto - The Los Angeles Clippers (29-53) won a tiebreaker with New York - Philadelphia (27-55) won a tiebreaker with Detroit - Golden State (26-56) won a tiebreaker with Washington

Link: http://realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/66014/20100416/nba_breaks_six_ties_for_draft/

Link: http://realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/66015/20100416/lottery_odds_preliminary_draft_order_finalized/

[xmuscularghandix]

Very nice. 

[celticinorlando]

they could get somebody decent at 19 IMO

[jdpapa3]

Wow. That is really good news!! The Celtic luck is back.

edit: just realized how geeky I sound...can't help it. I'm a draft geek.

[RebusRankin]

19th is a good pick.

[hpantazo]

19th is a good pick.

19th pick and a healthy team going into the playoffs, hmm...maybe the "bored" mentality is paying off...

[Mr October]

TP for the good news. Sounds like the mid first round will have a lot of nice prospects. 

[libermaniac]

Awesome!  I was just looking for this news.  Talk about geeky, I was watching Portland/GS on the last day of the season, hoping Port would win and pass the C's up ... GS had only 5 healthy players, and George fouled out, so they had to take a technical and keep him in, but GS still won.

Anway, 19 is very nice, especially since it will be BEFORE San Antonio, Portland and OKC - all who draft pretty well.

What's nice about the draft is the hope.  With aging vets, there is no hope to improve, only to hold on.

[Change]

19th is a good pick.

19th pick and a healthy team going into the playoffs, hmm...maybe the "bored" mentality is paying off...

Mission Accomplished.  

[christuffa]

19th pick historically has not had good outcomes. It may be cursed 

Scot Pollard   1997
Pat Garrity   1998
Jamaal Magloire   2000
Zach Randolph   2001
Aleksandar Pavlovic   2003
Dorell Wright   2004
Hakim Warrick   2005
Quincy Douby   2006
Javaris Crittenton   2007

Hopefully DA won't pick a dud (not necessarily duds but just ppl coach won't play) like he has the past 2 years. There have been numerous awesome picks in the range 20-30 over the past 15 years:

@ 21: Michael Finley, Boris Diaw, Nate, Rondo!
@ 23: Tayshaun Prince, Travis Outlaw
@ 24: Delonte West
@ 25: Al Harrington, Gerald Wallace, TA
@ 26: K-Mart
@ 27: Perk!
@ 28: Tony Parker, Leandro Barbosa
@30: A Varejao

[Mencius]

Fantastic.  Best we could have hoped for this year.  'Bout time we had a little luck.  Now I hope more and more good players declare for the draft.

[Andy Jick]

Draft luck like this is only 13 years too late...

[lon3lytoaster]

I certainly wasnt expecting this. I would have figured we would have gotten the worst outcome possible.

Good stuff. We can get a good player at 19th.

[Rondo_is_better]

Nice. That's really good news.

[Andy Jick]

Just took a peek at nbadraft.net to see what some of their thoughts were (ie. mock draft).  If Devin Ebanks of West Virginia is still there at 19 I'd love him...