NBA Draft

NBA Draft 2014: Who will end up with the most ping pong balls at the end of the season?

I speculate what will happen to 20 teams for the rest of the season, and who will end up with the most ping pong balls at the end of it.

By AllThatAmar@AllThatAmar Mar 16, 2014, 3:26pm MDT

There's not much preamble needed. This is what I think will happen. I'm okay with being wrong.

Final Standings:

	Final	Current			Remaining			Total
	Tankings	W	L		W	L		W	L		GB
1	Milwaukee Bucks	13	54	19.4%	1	14	6.7%	14	68	17.1%	0.0
2	Philadelphia 76ers	15	51	22.7%	0	16	0.0%	15	67	18.3%	1.0
3	Orlando Magic	19	48	28.4%	1	14	6.7%	20	62	24.4%	6.0
4	Los Angeles Lakers	22	44	33.3%	1	15	6.3%	23	59	28.0%	9.0
5	Boston Celtics	22	44	33.3%	3	13	18.8%	25	57	30.5%	11.0

6	Sacramento Kings	23	43	34.8%	3	13	18.8%	26	56	31.7%	12.0
7	Utah Jazz	22	44	33.3%	4	12	25.0%	26	56	31.7%	12.0
8	Detroit Pistons	25	41	37.9%	4	12	25.0%	29	53	35.4%	15.0
9	New Orleans Pelicans	26	39	40.0%	5	12	29.4%	31	51	37.8%	17.0
10	Cleveland Cavaliers	26	40	39.4%	7	9	43.8%	33	49	40.2%	19.0

11	Denver Nuggets	29	37	43.9%	4	12	25.0%	33	49	40.2%	19.0
12	New York Knicks	27	40	40.3%	6	9	40.0%	33	49	40.2%	19.0
13	Minnesota Timberwolves	32	32	50.0%	7	11	38.9%	39	43	47.6%	25.0
14	Phoenix Suns	38	28	57.6%	7	9	43.8%	45	37	54.9%	31.0

15	Atlanta Hawks	29	35	45.3%	9	7	56.3%	38	42	47.5%	25.0
16	Charlotte Bobcats	33	34	49.3%	8	7	53.3%	41	41	50.0%	27.0
17	Brooklyn Nets	33	31	51.6%	13	5	72.2%	46	36	56.1%	32.0
18	Memphis Grizzlies	39	27	59.1%	9	7	56.3%	48	34	58.5%	34.0
19	Dallas Mavericks	39	27	59.1%	11	5	68.8%	50	32	61.0%	36.0
20	Golden State Warriors	41	26	61.2%	10	5	66.7%	51	31	62.2%	37.0

Tie-Breakers / ownership:

Sacramento wins the tie-breaker against Utah
Cleveland, despite facing the Monty Hall problem, beat New York and Denver in a tie-breaker
Atlanta decides to keep their pick, and not swap with Brooklyn
New York, who lost the tie-breaker anyway, gives their pick to Denver
Denver, who has to give the lower of their two first rounders to Orlando, gives the New York pick
Utah gets Golden State's pick, which is not going to be worth a lot

Bottom Line:

Utah is not going to be top five at this rate
Philly lost every game, and still could not catch Milwaukee
New York tried its' best, but could not catch Atlanta
Phoenix could not catch Golden State, and neither could Memphis or Dallas

Lottery:

	Final	Total					Let's play ping-pong
	Tankings	W	L		GB		Chances	1st	1nd	3rd		Top Three
1	Milwaukee Bucks	14	68	17.1%	0.0		250	25.0%	21.5%	17.8%		64.3%
2	Philadelphia 76ers	15	67	18.3%	1.0		199	19.9%	18.8%	17.1%		55.8%
3	Orlando Magic	20	62	24.4%	6.0		156	15.6%	15.7%	15.6%		46.9%
4	Los Angeles Lakers	23	59	28.0%	9.0		119	11.9%	12.6%	13.3%		37.8%
5	Boston Celtics	25	57	30.5%	11.0		88	8.8%	9.7%	10.7%		29.2%

6	Sacramento Kings	26	56	31.7%	12.0		63	6.3%	7.1%	8.1%		21.5%
7	Utah Jazz	26	56	31.7%	12.0		43	4.3%	4.9%	5.8%		15.0%
8	Detroit Pistons	29	53	35.4%	15.0		28	2.8%	3.3%	3.9%		10.0%
9	New Orleans Pelicans	31	51	37.8%	17.0		17	1.7%	2.0%	2.4%		6.1%
10	Cleveland Cavaliers	33	49	40.2%	19.0		11	1.1%	1.3%	1.6%		4.0%

11	Denver Nuggets	33	49	40.2%	19.0		8	0.8%	0.9%	1.2%		2.9%
12	Orlando Magic	33	49	40.2%	19.0		7	0.7%	0.8%	1.0%		2.5%
13	Minnesota Timberwolves	39	43	47.6%	25.0		6	0.6%	0.7%	0.9%		2.2%
14	Phoenix Suns	45	37	54.9%	31.0		5	0.5%	0.6%	0.7%		1.8%

You better hope Matt Harpring is a demi-god (we know Derrick Favors is), because 15 is going to be all the chance we have to jump up.