The 5/19/2015 draft lottery

[WeMadeIt17]

My top 5 goes as so.

Philly
Sota
LA
NYK
OKC

[86MaxwellSmart]

Denver gets into the top 3---for Gifting Mozgov to the LeBrons.

[Mencius]

This whole draft lottery thing is like picking at a barely healed scab. Still disappoints me that the team inexplicably thought it better to be a first round punching bag rather than seeing that a higher pick in a year when you have no chance was the obviously smarter big picture play. Just stupid and short sighted.

Other than hoping two teams leapfrog the Lakers, I don't much care how it goes down.

[Tr1boy]

This whole draft lottery thing is like picking at a barely healed scab. Still disappoints me that the team inexplicably thought it better to be a first round punching bag rather than seeing that a higher pick in a year when you have no chance was the obviously smarter big picture play. Just stupid and short sighted.

Other than hoping two teams leapfrog the Lakers, I don't much care how it goes down.

Like getting 11-15 would help us jump to anywhere

It rarely ever happens

[LarBrd33]

The TWolves, Pacers, and Jazz would make me have to shut up with my conspiracy belief for a year

REALLY hard to believe in a conspiracy if you understand how the lotto works.

[LarBrd33]

This whole draft lottery thing is like picking at a barely healed scab. Still disappoints me that the team inexplicably thought it better to be a first round punching bag rather than seeing that a higher pick in a year when you have no chance was the obviously smarter big picture play. Just stupid and short sighted.

Other than hoping two teams leapfrog the Lakers, I don't much care how it goes down.

Lol imagine if the Hornets win the lotto and end up getting a superstar.  They were basically tied with us heading into the final weeks.   

How the season played out was fine, though.  We basically traded every starter-caliber player this team had.  Ainge did everything he could to force a tank beyond firing our wonderboy coach.  I'm convinced Brad Stevens could have got a JV high school team to 40 wins this year.   We'll just have to find another route to land a star... and hopefully do it quickly before Brad gets bored and returns to College.

[BitterJim]

Denver gets into the top 3---for Gifting Mozgov to the LeBrons.

Gifting?  They got two firsts for him.  That's a great deal

[tarheelsxxiii]

Tough to choose. CLE won it with a 1.7% chance last year.

I'll go with CLE.

[Endless Paradise]

If OKC gets a top 3 pick and takes Russell we might as well give up.

Westbrook/[Waiters]
Russell/Roberson/Waiters
Durant/Morrow
Ibaka/McGary
Kanter/Adams/Collison

Augustin's the backup point guard.

[cb8883]

Making the playoffs was the biggest disaster in Celtics history and that's saying a lot. You miss out on getting elite young talent while you watch the Lakers and Knicks leave the draft with true franchise changing talent. Should have tanked harder.

[max215]

Minnesota will win, select Towns or Okafor and years later everyone will wonder why they didn't take Justise Winsow or D'Angelo Russell.

Haha TP

[PhoSita]

Honestly, I can't begin to care.

If the Lakers lose their pick, that'd be nice.  Otherwise, a handful of poorly run / bad luck teams will end up with a top flight prospect in this draft, and the Celtics won't.  So who cares which one gets what?

I suppose that I hope that Philly gets a top 2 pick if only to increase the odds of them considering trading Noel. 

[celticsclay]

Making the playoffs was the biggest disaster in Celtics history and that's saying a lot. You miss out on getting elite young talent while you watch the Lakers and Knicks leave the draft with true franchise changing talent. Should have tanked harder.

It is hard to respond to this while staying within Celtics guidelines for appropriate decorum. I think I can safely say that I have never disagreed with more with a single post on celtics blog.  From a strictly basketball sense, how do you think that losing out on the 11th or 12th pick in the draft is worse than losing game 7 in the finals to the Lakers. That doesn't make sense in any world. Just within the last 5-8 year we have things like the injuries to KG, Rondo, Shaq that all cost us legitmate shots at a championship. There have been so many moments in Celtics history that clearly cost the teams years of competitiveness whether it be trading Billups or Johnson for nothing, trading for Vin Baker, blowing massive contracts on Blount or travis knight. Heck even losing the lottery when we had a really legitimate chance at Durant or Duncan.

Then, from a non-basketball perspective, and where your post borders on offensive is we have had two players die as young men in Celtics history. Aside from the obviously much more trivial basketball related outcomes, just calling this a bigger disaster than that is really obnoxious and offensive. Why would you say this? Maybe I am a fool if you are just saying this to get a reaction cause you got one.

[celticsclay]

Honestly, I can't begin to care.

If the Lakers lose their pick, that'd be nice.  Otherwise, a handful of poorly run / bad luck teams will end up with a top flight prospect in this draft, and the Celtics won't.  So who cares which one gets what?

I suppose that I hope that Philly gets a top 2 pick if only to increase the odds of them considering trading Noel.

If I am understand this correctly the events you are mentioned are extremely correlated. There is one dream scenario where Philly gets the first pick and two teams from outside the top 5 win the second and third pick and they also get the 6th pick. However, the odds of that one scenario happening is i think literally less than 1%. Most likely if the Lakers lose their pick it would mean that Philly is having their own pick pushed down significantly from 3rd to 5th. I personally think they would rather have the 1st pick and the lakers pick another year rather than lose out on Okafor and Towns and get pushed all the way to 5th where they may not even be able to get Russel.

[GC003332]

Making the playoffs was the biggest disaster in Celtics history and that's saying a lot. You miss out on getting elite young talent while you watch the Lakers and Knicks leave the draft with true franchise changing talent. Should have tanked harder.

Len Bias and Reggie Lewis dying might just be a little higher up the list, just a little...
celticsclay already touched on it ,sorry.