Jeff Twiss isn't sure how long he waited. An hour? Maybe 75 minutes? It felt like a lifetime.
A meteor was headed toward Celtics Nation on May 18, 1997, and, stripped of all outside communication before entering the lottery draw room that night in Secaucus, New Jersey, there was no way for Twiss to alert anyone back home.
Not that he felt like talking to anyone at that moment, particularly not San Antonio Spurs director of player personnel Sam Schuler, who was seated directly next to him and, understandably, could hardly contain his excitement when the Spurs secured the No.