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To boil down the Charlotte Hornets’ chances of winning the No. 1 pick in the 2023 NBA draft lottery to simple terms, consider the imaginary coin I’m about to flip.
You get to call it: heads or tails.
Heads, you say? You’re right.
But now I’m going to flip it again, and you need to call it correctly once more.
And if you get the second one right, you have to guess a coin flip correctly a third and final time.
There is statistically a 1-in-8 chance that you can call “heads or tails” correctly three times in a row, and that is also the chance the Hornets have at obtaining the No.