Making sense of tonight's draft lottery from a Cs perspective

The Draft Lottery for the 2019 NBA Draft is tonight, and if you're a little confused about what's going on, get in line.

Many people, including otherwise-well-informed media members and pundits all the way over to casual fans find themselves facing a gap in knowledge when it comes to this event.

Conspiracy theories abound almost as ubiquitously as "good luck" appointments of lottery representatives for participating teams -- and if we're being honest, the latter is the more likely of the two to influence outcomes of the day.

There are no frozen envelopes; this whole exercise is done with ping-pong balls and one of the world's leading accounting firms, Ernst & Young, an organization whose…