The most important day of the year for Sacramento Kings fans and other fans of winning-averse teams is here, to be decided by the bounce of balls from an entirely different sport. That’s right, it’s NBA lottery day! (Also Happy Mother’s Day to all. Whoever’s bright idea at the NBA to put the lottery at noon on Mother’s Day needs to reevaluate their priorities).
This is the last year of the current lottery structure before it likely makes drastic changes next year, and it’s considered to be a very strong draft class with at least four players in a tier above everyone else. Naturally, the Kings are slated 5th. But that could all change with a little bit of luck later today. The lottery is going to be at Noon PT on ABC if you want to tune in.
As a reminder, here are the Kings full odds for where there pick will land after the balls are drawn:
- 11.5%
- 11.4%
- 11.2%
- 11.0%
- 2.0%
- 18.2%
- 25.5%
- 8.5%
- 0.6%
To break it down in simpler terms, the Kings have a 45.1% chance to move up, a 2% chance to stay the same and a 52.9% chance to drop. My prediction? I think the Kings drop one spot to 6th, and as a Kings fan I think that’s an optimistic outlook because at least it’s not 7th or 8th. If the Kings somehow get 9th I might just quit watching basketball all together. All I’m saying is, we could really use a win here.
Let’s go Kings!
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