NBA Draft Lottery Open Thread: TV info, odds, and more

Patrick Gorski-USA TODAY Sports It’s the NBA Draft lottery, but the Pacers won’t be participating because tanking isn’t their style and it also wasn’t particularly feasible. At the point in which Victor Oladipo sustained his season-ending injury, Indiana was 17 games above .500 with only 35 games left to play and the bottom two seeds in the East had losing records. They were making the playoffs, it was just a matter of who they would be playing once they got there. Turns out, they got swept by the Celtics in the first-round with their young players (i.e. Aaron Holiday, T.J. Leaf, etc.) seeing only limited minutes in the name of cultivating a winning culture (i.e. standing pat at the trade deadline, signing Wesley Matthews, etc.).

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