NBA Lottery Night

The team order in the NBA’s Draft Lottery will be determined tonight, 8:30 PM Eastern. While some teams have a better chance, percentage-wise at getting the top pick, it doesn’t always turn out that way. With the NBA’s worst record, the Sacramento Kings have a 25% chance of getting the first pick in the NBA draft. Will they chose Oklahoma great Blake Griffin, or will they chose Spain’s point guard Ricky Rubio, assuming they get the top pick?  Of course, it’s a little early to tell, considering they only have a 1 in 4 chance of being the top team.

According to every mock draft out there, including a computer generated one at ESPN, the top team in the draft, whoever it is, will select Blake Griffin. The unanimous Player of the Year last season, Griffin is seen as head and shoulders above the crowd. The problem is that there have been some big man flops that went No. 1 overall. Does anybody remember Kwami Brown?

How could Blake Griffin be a flop? Well, some people suggest that a guy like Griffin dominates the college game because he’s just physically superior- bigger, faster, stronger, more athletic. However, in the NBA he’s going to go up against players who are not only bigger, faster and stronger, but more athletic and more skilled as well. Will he be as technically sound as Derrick Rose?

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