How do you feel about a 2.9 percent chance of hitting it big?
If you like those odds, then you won’t mind the Charlotte Hornets’ chances in Tuesday night’s annual NBA draft lottery, when the Hornets will be one of 14 teams in contention for a top-three pick in next month’s draft.
First, the bad news. If this lottery was held 100 times, odds are the Hornets would end up with the No. 11 or the No. 12 overall pick in 97 of those.
Charlotte finished last season 36-46, which was a bad season by most standards but a good one for the woeful have-nots who populate the NBA lottery.