The NBA lottery results of Wizards can be summarized by a word: cruel

Chicago – This felt cruel when they have followed the Washington Wizards for a long time or know the fear and faith through a large part of their fan base that the franchise was cursed for some reason. That your team is considered unimportant by a league that uses in the glamor teams and the Washington never gives the difference with its NBA lottery that can change the long-term assets of the franchise. That nobody in the Olympic tower seems to know that the wizards exist.

On Monday in the ballroom, in which this year's lottery was held -and only feet from Cooper Flag, the specific No. 1 selection present with other design prospects at the NBA Draft Combine this week, began with dizzying enthusiasm to fill with several magic lottery. Bub Carrington's family looked at her charges, sat on stage and represented the team, which brought him 14th a year ago. The Asorted Wizards employees were also in the series, worked with their telephones and waited for the moment when Washington would finally increase the adrenaline that it urgently needed.

Half an hour ended soon … Well, what will come to Shellshock?

Sixth.

Sixth.

Sixth!

Any #%^%*&*^*(^t^%% _) (U*&*%^*ing number six.

In 1992 the Wizards-Dann had the ball-best lottery chances, with seven of the then 66 ping pong balls with their name, to get Shaquille O'Neal, the Monster Center Prospect of Monster Center from LSU, and the consensus pick to go No. 1. Grief to play at the same capital center/USARWAYS Court called his Hoyas at home.

Instead, with 10 of the 66 balls, Orlando got his desired and the big diesel was magical. And Charlotte, who only had four balls, jumped over Washington on two and chose grief. Minnesota, who had the highest chances with 11 balls, received the third choice, Christian Laettner.

Washington fell … to sixth place.

Hey, Tom Gugliotta, how are you?

Next year, 1993, Washington had the third highest chances to get number 1, with nine balls in the hopper, just behind Dallas, who had 11 balls, and Minnesota in '93 was one of the Michigans Chris Webber or Memphis' Penny Hardaway, both massive talents. The type of guy you can build franchise around. This year Orlando, who had received Shaq the previous year, only had one of the 66 ping pong balls. This gave the magic exactly an opportunity of 0.01515152 percent in the top election, the lowest chances of a team in the lottery.

Oh, come. You know what happened.

Philadelphia, which had the same seven balls in 1993, which Washington had in 1992, jumped over Washington to second place. And Golden State jumped over the balls with the seventh chances to reach third place. Orlando recorded Webber, but then exchanged its rights to Golden State against the draft of the rights to Hardaway together with three future round-off picks.

In the meantime, Washington fell to sixth place.

Calbert Cheaney, come down.

Yes, the balls that have landed with Webber a year later, and Juwan Howard and Rashed Wallace also added in the next few years. But … we know how it worked.

(I will not even get in Jan Vesely. Yes. Sixth, 2011.)

There was absolutely nothing to complain about in Guggs or Cheaney, each of which had solid careers. You just weren't … Shaq or 'zo or cwebb or penny. And with Tre Johnson, Kon Knueppel or Derik Queen or Carter Bryant or someone the wizards take … sixth … If you keep the choice, nothing will be complained about. They are simply not flag or Dylan Harper. You win in the NBA with flags and Harpers. The MAVS, which were in the final last year, but then the good will of most of their fan base, by acting Luka Dončić (third, 2018) to the Lakers, again, with great profit, soon, with Cooper Flagg and Anthony Davis (first, 2012) and Kyry idy connection.

Washington will soon not win big. Not with this rate.

“We started the day with zero and went away with six, and that is the way of thinking we went to,” said GM Will Dawkins.

And no, I will not say that he turned or rejected or something. He was depressed. The fact that a coherent punishment came out of his mouth was a victory.

There is no sugar coating. This was a catastrophic night for the magicians, in an era seemingly infinite catastrophic and artificial artificial (see webber to kings above), others a question of happiness. You could talk about the Celtics, who took sixth place in 1978 Larry Bird, while he had college in the state of Indiana, Damian Lillard or Lenny Wilkens or Adrian Dantley or some of the other really good No. 6 through NBA history for a year.

Or you could call Mavs' GM Nico Harrison, whose “revenge tour through Texas Lowcountry and other Lone Star environment that doubted him” will be merciless and slow, and see whether he would like to exchange one for six and 18. If the laugh subsides, let us know.

“The important piece is when we came in, we knew that there was a 50 percent chance that they had five or six,” said Dawkins. “So you go into the lottery chances and know that this is most likely where you will be. And it is a chance game.

“But as you said, we are still in the initial phases.

But that was not the point to hit a season from 18 to 64. Every mind that was this season: as ethically as possible to have the best possible chance of adding a young superstar who could restore a basis that has been waiting (he says again). For more than four decades be relevant again. Can be seen on national television again. To play again in front of sold-out crowds, not because another team of another team plays in DC, but because the Wizards have their own superstar, their own ticket and jersey-selling machine, their own supernova, the other stars to get to the city.

Your own hope.

But once again the most patient and Weebegone fans in the history of this league have to wait again, while the fan compositions of Mavericks and Spurs again Jews. It is not that the cruelty is the point, but that the cruelty does not seem to have a soil.

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