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NBA Draft 2015 Lottery Standings: While you were sleeping April 11th, 2015

If the season ended tonight who would have the most ping pong balls?

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This is late because there were so many games last night, and I'm trying to watch as many of them as possible. Anyway, some minor changes for the NBA Draft lottery, but a HUGE CHANGE in the Western Conference for the NBA Playoffs. Let's get to it!

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What happened last night?

Winner Loser Commentary
1 TOR East 4 101 - ORL East 13 99 DeMar DeRozan is scoring like crazy, had 29 last night
2 ATL East 1 104 - CHA East 11 80 Marvin Williams and Mo Williams finish with 6 pts total
3 BOS East 7 99 - CLE East 2 90 Huge win for Celtics
4 BKN East 8 117 - WAS East 5 80 Deron Williams gets 9 / 9 / 7 / 1 in the win
5 MIL East 6 99 - NYK East 15 91 Giannis Antetokounmpo is too good, man
6 IND East 9 107 - DET East 12 103 C.J. Miles drops 24 / 5 / 2 on the Pistons
7 OKC West 9 116 - SAC West 13 103 OKC finally win, Enes Kanter with 25 /6
8 NOP West 8 90 - PHX West 10 75 They didn't make up any ground on NOP though
9 SAS West 6 104 - HOU West 3 103 Spurs have now won 10 in a row, and I can't even.
10 DAL West 7 144 - DEN West 12 143 This score makes sense only if it's Cricket
11 MEM West 2 89 - UTA West 11 88 Being upset over losses is a long-lost feeling
12 LAL West 15 106 - MIN West 14 98 Andrew Wiggins with 29/10/6/2 … ridiculous.

The East makes no sense, and the West is a blood bath. But this is the way it has always been.

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NBA Draft Lottery standings:

2014 2015 WYWS April 11

Soooooo, the top 8 seem to be all locked up. And pretty much in that order. IND/UTA flip flopped. MIL/PHX flip flopped. TOR/CHI flip flopped -- but they are in the playoffs, so it doesn't matter.

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Western Conference standings:

Team W L % GB GL Streak Last Night Tonight
1 Warriors z 64 - 15 81.01% 0.0 3 1 vs MIN
2 Grizzlies x 54 - 25 68.35% 10.0 3 2 @ UTA W @ LAC
3 Spurs x 54 - 26 67.50% 10.5 2 10 @ HOU W
4 Trail Blazers y 51 - 28 64.56% 13.0 3 -1 vs UTA
5 Clippers x 53 - 26 67.09% 11.0 3 4 vs MEM
6 Rockets x 53 - 26 67.09% 11.0 3 -2 vs SAS L
7 Mavericks x 48 - 31 60.76% 16.0 3 2 @ DEN W
8 Pelicans 43 - 36 54.43% 21.0 3 1 vs PHX W
9 Thunder 43 - 36 54.43% 21.0 3 1 vs SAC W
10 Suns 39 - 41 48.75% 25.5 2 -3 @ NOP L
11 Jazz 36 - 43 45.57% 28.0 3 -1 vs MEM L @ POR
12 Nuggets 29 - 50 36.71% 35.0 3 -1 vs DAL L
13 Kings 27 - 52 34.18% 37.0 3 -2 @ OKC L
14 Lakers 21 - 58 26.58% 43.0 3 1 vs MIN W
15 Timberwolves 16 - 63 20.25% 48.0 3 -9 @ LAL L @ GSW
z - Clinched Conference
y - Clinched Division
x - Clinched Playoffs

Okay, so what changed? Well the Spurs went up from #6 to #3, jumping over the Blazers, Clippers, and of course Rockets. That shows you how close all of these teams are, with 2.9 games left in the West, and these teams are separated by 1.0 games. But that's just for #2 and #6, not including #4. There are some safe zones.

#1 -- GSW is safe, no one can catch them

#4 -- POR is safe because they won the division, they don't have to worry about anything, they know they are playing #5

#7 -- DAL is safe/stuck at #7. They can't catch #6. No Team likely for #6 can fall to #7. And no team that is #8 can get to #7. So in this regard, they don't have to go nuts. This is nice for the Jazz, who host them at home on the 13th.

For most of the teams in the lotto, they are all stuck as well. DEN and SAC could switch places, but I don't expect them to. UTA and PHX could tie, but I don't think it's going to happen.

The big battle, outside of the playoff standings is going to be between NOP and OKC, and it looks like NOP has the inside track.

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Tonight's games:

Road Home Commentary
1 NYK East 15 @ ORL East 13 Can Patrick Ewing and the Knicks hold off Shaquille O'Neal and the Magic? (What? It's no 1995?)
2 TOR East 3 @ MIA East 10 I don't expect the Heat to win, so obviously they will.
3 PHI East 14 @ CHI East 4 Nerlens Noel is . . . He's . . . He's doing stuff.
4 MEM West 2 @ LAC West 5 Another huge night for Memphis and the Western Conference standings.
5 UTA West 11 @ POR West 4 Gotta win, Jazz. Gotta win.
6 MIN West 15 @ GSW West 1 Lemme guess, Wiggins will get good stats, GSW will still win despite sitting guys

MEM @ LAC is big, but I'm felling good about UTA @ POR.

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Let's go Jazz!