I want to hear your best lottery/draft night scenarios. I actually have two:
1A: Celtics win the draft lottery, and the rest of the results end up like this:
1: Boston via Brooklyn
2: Philly
3: Phoenix
4: Philly via Lakers (Because screw them)
Philly falls in love with Simmons in his pre-draft workout with them, and Boston knows this. So Boston leverages Philly to trade them Noel and #2 for #1.
After receiving Noel and #2 from Philly, Ainge calls up the Bulls management and gives them an offer for Butler: Crowder, Rozier, Young, #2 pick, and #16 for Butler. The Bulls accept the offer knowing they'll now have three nice prospects at the 1 (Rozier), 2 (Crowder), and 3 (Ingram) to add to their current young core of McDermott and Portis.
Seeing the recent moves the Celtics have made, both Durant and Horford grant the Celtics interviews, and both are blown away by the Celtics pitch to team them up with their newly revamped roster. They both sign near-max deals that leaves just enough room to go over the cap to resign Turner to a 3 yr, $24M deal, who takes a discount to stay with the C's as a key cog off the bench. We roll into next season with the following lineup:
PG: Smart, IT
SG: Butler, Bradley
SF: Durant, Turner
PF: Horford, Mickey
C: Noel, KO
Banner 18 here we come, baby!
1B: Celtics win the draft lottery, and the rest of the results end up like this:
1: Boston via Brooklyn
2: Philly
3: Sacramento
4: Philly via Lakers (Because screw them)
5: Phoenix
Philly falls in love with Simmons in his pre-draft workout with them, and Boston knows this. So Boston leverages Philly to trade them Noel and #2 for #1.
After receiving Noel and #2 from Philly, Ainge calls up Vlade Divac and gives them an offer for Cousins: Crowder, JJ, Rozier, #2 pick, and #16 for Cousins. Seeing the chance to add a #2 and #3 pick and tailor their core to their new coach, Divac reluctantly decides to accept the trade to add Crowder, Rozier, and Ingram, to their core of WCS, Mcelmore, and Hield/Murray/Bender.
Seeing the recent moves the Celtics have made, Durant grants the Celtics an interview, and he ultimately decides to sign a near-max deal that leaves just enough room to go over the cap to resign Turner to a 3 yr, $24M deal, who takes a discount to stay with the C's as a key cog off the bench. We roll into next season with the following lineup:
PG: Smart, IT
SG: Bradley, Hunter/Young
SF: Durant, Turner
PF: Cousins, Mickey
C: Noel, KO
Cousins' newly developed outside game makes the Noel/Cousins pairing work both offensively and defensively. Banner 18 here we come, baby!
What's your perfect lottery/draft night scenario?