Tonight represents one of the weirdest and most intriguing nights of the NBA calendar, and for a change the Milwaukee Bucks will have the opportunity to put their feet up and watch the chaos from afar. I am of course talking about the NBA Draft Lottery.
The Bucks have found themselves in need of sending a representative to the lottery in five of the last seven years, as the draft order for teams who have missed the Playoffs gets determined by the bounce of ping-pong balls.
The future of a franchise, the fate of players, coaches and executives’ careers, can all come down to the bounce of a ping-pong ball.