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NBA Draft 2015 Lottery Standings: While you were sleeping April 5th, 2015

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

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Everything sucks. Well, not everything. Just everything went wrong in the basketball world last night for me and my "predictions". Anyway, I'm here to detail which teams moved up in the NBA Draft lottery standings, and which teams solidified their place in the NBA Playoffs race.

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What happened last night?

Winner Loser Commentary
1 CHA East 11 92 - PHI East 14 91 No Al Jefferson, no problem
2 BOS East 9 117 - TOR East 4 116 DeMar DeRozan's 38 not enough to get OT win
3 DET East 12 99 - MIA East 8 98 Reggie Jackson drops 29 and 11 on Goran Dragic
4 ATL East 1 131 - BKN East 7 99 Atlanta. Had. Forty. Assists.
5 WAS East 5 92 - MEM West 3 83 Huge game for our pick in 2017
6 ORL East 13 97 - MIL East 6 90 So far ever East team I expected to lose decided to win
7 GSW West 1 123 - DAL West 7 110 Steve Kerr makes coaching history with 63rd win as rookie
8 LAC West 5 107 - DEN West 12 92 Somehow Randy Foye 's 14 not enough to get it done
9 POR West 4 99 - NOP West 9 90 LaMarcus Aldridge vs. Anthony Davis was worth it
10 PHX West 10 87 - UTA West 10 85 Such a bad way to end this game.

The Jazz loss to the Suns is pretty much the season for me. There's no race now. Just play the games, don't get hurt. Wait till next year.

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NBA Draft Lottery standings:

2014 2015 WYWS April 5

Okay, so there's very little movement at all in the Top 8 spots here night in and night out. After that it's a change every single day. Boston went from #11 to #13, and Phoenix went from #15 to #16, essentially flip-flopping with Milwaukee that went a spot down. (Milwaukee and Phoenix flip flopped the night before). In the wake of Boston going from 2.9% for a Top 3 pick to being a playoff team that means that Miami dropped into the Lotto (which has future pick implications), and the Jazz are now almost at 3% for a Top 3 pick. Whoop-dee-damn-doo, as Derrick Coleman once said.

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Western Conference standings:

Team W L % GB GL Streak Last Night Tonight
1 Warriors z 63 - 13 82.89% 0.0 6 12 @ DAL W @ SAS
2 Rockets x 52 - 24 68.42% 11.0 6 2 @ OKC
3 Grizzlies x 52 - 25 67.53% 11.5 5 -1 vs WAS L
4 Trail Blazers y 50 - 26 65.79% 13.0 6 2 vs NOP W
5 Clippers x 51 - 26 66.23% 12.5 5 2 @ DEN W @ LAL
6 Spurs x 50 - 26 65.79% 13.0 6 6 vs GSW
7 Mavericks 46 - 31 59.74% 17.5 5 -2 vs GSW L
8 Thunder 42 - 34 55.26% 21.0 6 -2 vs HOU
9 Pelicans 41 - 35 53.95% 22.0 6 -1 @ POR L
10 Suns 39 - 38 50.65% 24.5 5 1 vs UTA W
11 Jazz 34 - 42 44.74% 29.0 6 -1 @ PHX L @ SAC
12 Nuggets 28 - 49 36.36% 35.5 5 -4 vs LAC L
13 Kings 26 - 49 34.67% 36.5 7 -4 vs UTA
14 Lakers 20 - 55 26.67% 42.5 7 -2 vs LAC
15 Timberwolves 16 - 60 21.05% 47.0 6 -6
z - Clinched Conference
y - Clinched Division
x - Clinched Playoffs

Golden State clinched homecourt in every round if they get to every round. The Grizz losing to the Wizz messes up some of our future picks from OKC, but hey, that's what happens. There are now, on average, 5.8 games remaining to be played by the 15 teams in the West. And despite there being only 6.5 games between #2 seed and #7 seed I don't know how much movement we're going to actually see. The Spurs have a chance to do some damage, but for the most part I think we see each team winning just about as many games as every other team.

In the non-playoffs race the Jazz loss to the Suns last night pretty much ends it for that little honorable mention, moral victory. Utah had a chance to catch and surpass them this season, but too many dumb losses got in the way. Home losses to the Magic, Lakers, Timberwolves, and Boston stick out. I really think the Jazz should have won last night, but did not. And as a result the team is too far back now to catch Phoenix.

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Tonight's games:

Road Home Commentary
1 HOU West 2 @ OKC West 8 James Harden revenge time?
2 CHI East 3 @ CLE East 2 Bulls to try to snap Cavalier's long home win streak
3 MIA East 9 @ IND East 10 Paul George is going to play in this game!
4 GSW West 1 @ SAS West 6 Best of the West this year vs. Best of the West last year
5 PHI East 14 @ NYK East 15 Two bad teams.
6 UTA West 11 @ SAC West 13 Probably Sim Bhullar's first game of his career
7 LAC West 5 @ LAL West 14 LOL.

Personally, the PHI @ NYK game is going to be hilarious. DVR that one.

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If the Jazz lose to the Kings tonight I'm going to be pretty bummed out.