This lottery can alter the course of NBA history in two ways. The first is a little more immediately obvious than the second.
The first way is that whoever gets Anthony Davis will get a franchise-defining player.
Second, because of that, the fix could be in on who gets him, and that will result in a change of how the lottery is conducted.
About every five or six years, there is a player that is so obviously a franchise-changing player that we know before he ever steps his foot on the court that he will make a team an instant contender.
Shaquille O’Neal was such a player. When he was drafted in 1992, it wasn’t a question of whether he would win a championship, but of how many championships he would win. He went on to win four, but none with the team that drafted him. Make no mistake about it, though. He launched the Magic into relevance.
Five years later, the lottery was the Tim Duncan Sweeps, and it was clear that the winner of that would be the winner of championships. He has four rings and is presently working on his fifth.
All of them have been with the San Antonio Spurs, the team whic ...
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NBA Lottery 2012: Why the Lottery Can Alter the Course of NBA History
May 29th, 2012 by Kelly Scaletta Leave a reply »
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