My TV guide says the NBA draft lottery only ran half an hour. It felt like half a lifetime.
Twitter was ablaze with speculation at where the Lakers might fall. Might the league do its most popular franchise a solid and grant them the top pick? Maybe the Lakers’ recent run of tough luck would continue and they’d fall from the top five so the selection would go to that smug little Sam Hinkie and his Philetankia seventy-tankers.
-== Lakers Draft Evaluations: Comparing Then & Now ==-
Finally, after what felt like a zillion words from Jay Bilas it started.