It is possible to win the lottery. The NBA draft lottery that is. Just play basketball at the University of Kentucky. To be a lottery pick in the NBA assures a player of a life-changing paycheck and a place in basketball history.
Since arriving at Kentucky coach John Calipari has created a lottery machine. So far he has had 13 players picked in the lottery. And on Thursday that number will almost certainly be increased by two or possibly three.
Before Calipari became UK's coach the number of lottery picks since the beginning of the lottery was only five.