The future is close to being the present. The NBA holds its annual Draft Lottery at 7:00 p.m. ET on ESPN, just before Game 4 of the New York Knicks - Boston Celtics EC semis. Mark Tatum will pull cards until there are only left. Then, the process will pause during a commercial break the final order. Ugh.
Beyond that, though, there will be a lot of other decisions before now and the Brooklyn Nets preseason trip to Macao, China. Not to mention the New York Liberty’s defense of their first WNBA championship which begins five days after the Lottery.