Only in the fucking NBA can the two worst teams in the league

[cboy4]

end up picking fourth and fifth respectively. :wtf: :puke:

L.A. SURPRISE

Everyone dreams of winning the lottery. The Los Angeles Clippers got to live it on Monday night.

With a 17.7 percent chance of securing the top pick in the June 25 NBA draft, Los Angeles moved from the third-best chance to winning and earned the right to select Oklahoma forward Blake Griffin.

The second pick went to the Memphis Grizzlies, who moved up from sixth, while the Oklahoma City Thunder will select third, moving up from fourth.

The big loser in the lottery was the Sacramento Kings. With the best odds to get the top pick, they slipped to No. 4. Not since 2004 when the Orlando Magic selected Dwight Howard has the team with the most ping pong balls received the top pick.

Griffin led the nation with 30 double-doubles and 14.4 rebounds per game while averaging a Big 12-best 22.7 points. In the NCAA tournament, he was even better -- averaging 28.5 points and 15 rebounds to lead the Sooners to the regional finals, where they lost to eventual national champion North Carolina.

Other players who will likely be drafted in the top 10 are Spain point guard Ricky Rubio, UConn center Hasheem Thabeet, Arizona State guard James Harden and Arizona power forward Jordan Hill.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2009/news/story?id=4181208

[madinmaryland]

1. All I can say to you cboy is...

[El Supremo]

2. He won't help them.

The Clippers are almost as bad as the Giants.

[cboy4]

3. Maybe. But they're definitely not as bad as the Rockies.

[Bluzmann57]

4. Clippers are arguably the worst franchise in sports

All of sports. Any league, any team. They have been crappy for a long time and will stay crappy for a long time.

[RoyGBiv]

5. The Clippers!?

Ah, hell ...

What a waste of talent.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

6. Keeps them from intentionally tanking the season.

:think:

[madinmaryland]

7. You are a Sacramento Kings fan?? That franchise is nearly the disgrace

that the Clippers are. You should be ashamed to be a fan of the kings.

[cboy4]

9. Where did I say I'm a Sacramento Kings fan?

I am complaining about the lottery system.

It's ridiculous that the two teams who finished with the worst records in the NBA end up picking behind not one, not two, but three other teams that finished with better records.

That's ricockulous.

[madinmaryland]

10. "That's ricockulous."

That sounds "homophonic" to me.

:wtf:

Maybe, my friend, if the teams at the bottom didn't start throwing games at the end of a long season, they wouldn't need to have a lottery.

[cboy4]

11. Ricockulous is something Adam Carolla says, meaning

it's even more outrageous than ridiculous.

Why would you play the homophobe card? I don't like it when people do that.

Now then, you're telling me only NBA teams throw games? You don't think it happens or can happen in other sports?

Come on now. The NBA draft system is flawed. Memphis got screwed a couple of years ago as well, and they're a disaster because of it.

[madinmaryland]

12. Adam Carolla? You quoting him.

:rofl:

Sorry, but I was playing the homophone card. I don't like it when people mistake homophone for something else.

BTW, Apparently they do or they wouldn't have the draft as it is now. Why do you think the Lions laid down 16 times this last year? And they will still fuck it up even without the help of Matt Millen.

[cboy4]

13. I'm still sad the Man Show is not on the air anymore.

:(

----------------> Insert predictable why would you be interested in the man show comment here: _____________________________________________.

[madinmaryland]

14. Heh! You got

me on that one!

I used to put that on just to piss my wife off!

:D

[cboy4]

15. And now .. girls on trampolines

I can't believe I'm admitting to watching such a sexist show.

[madinmaryland]

16. BWAHA! I had forgotten about that.

Thanks for the refresher.

Damn. She still gets pissed off about that!!!

:rofl:

[cboy4]

8. I don't think Blake Griffin is going to be very good unless he starts

filling out.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. Good One cboy

He's one biggun', isn't he?

I think he's going to a very good NBA player, but they have better do something around him in LA.
GAC