New York Knicks and Denver loss tracker for 2016 Lottery Pick surprise (thanks, Masai)

[Primer]

Important games today:

New Orleans at Detroit (New Orleans one step closer to moving ahead of Denver and NYK)

Cleveland at OKC (Cleveland loss puts us closer to 1st in the East)

Boston at Denver (Denver loss helps the pick)

Indiana at Orlando (Orlando win to create more separation from NYK)

Memphis at Toronto (Win puts us closer to 1st in the East, break this losing skid)

[Carlos Rogers]

Pels are hanging around with the Pistons, Davis at 49 with lot's of time left in 4th.

[A.I]

Pels are hanging around with the Pistons, Davis at 49 with lot's of time left in 4th.

When was the last time a player got 50 points and 20 rebounds?

[A.I]

Boston blowing out Denver.

[octothorp]

When was the last time a player got 50 points and 20 rebounds?

Since 83-84, it's only happened twice: Webber went 51-26, and Shaq went 61-23.

[Primer]

Important games today:

New Orleans at Detroit (New Orleans one step closer to moving ahead of Denver and NYK)

Cleveland at OKC (Cleveland loss puts us closer to 1st in the East)

Boston at Denver (Denver loss helps the pick)

Indiana at Orlando (Orlando win to create more separation from NYK)

Memphis at Toronto (Win puts us closer to 1st in the East, break this losing skid)

New Orleans win.

Cleveland win.....

Boston win.

Indiana win......

Raptors win!!!!!

Another good night for the pick!

[octothorp]

For the first time in a long time, 538's projection has Nuggets and Knicks both in the bottom 7, with 34 and 33 wins, respectively.

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-nba-picks/

[KeonClark]

So it's looking like the best we can hope for is 7th. 9th right now, just need the bucks and pellies to pass the bockers, and they're very close. Could help our own cause with the W tonight.

[Primer]

Important games tonight:

Detroit at Cleveland (gets us closer to 1 seed)

Toronto at New York (improves the pick and gets us closer to 1 seed, must win game)

LAL at Milwaukee (Milwaukee win and NYK loss moves Milwaukee ahead of them in the standings)

Boston at Minnesota (Moves Minny one step closer to overtaking Denver)

With the really really important games being ours and Milwaukee's.

[DanH]

So it's looking like the best we can hope for is 7th. 9th right now, just need the bucks and pellies to pass the bockers, and they're very close. Could help our own cause with the W tonight.

The real key is for the worse of the two teams to get as bad as possible. Then there is a slim chance the better team wins one of the three lotto spots, and our pick essentially jumps up into the top 5 or 6.

[Uncle_Si]

Yeah it's unreal. Would be crazy if we ended up getting a star talent with the pick.

Were probably due considering the hell we suffered through with Primo

[Uncle_Si]

Important games tonight:

Detroit at Cleveland (gets us closer to 1 seed)

Toronto at New York (improves the pick and gets us closer to 1 seed, must win game)

LAL at Milwaukee (Milwaukee win and NYK loss moves Milwaukee ahead of them in the standings)

Boston at Minnesota (Moves Minny one step closer to overtaking Denver)

With the really really important games being ours and Milwaukee's.

Milwaukee added Novak, so expect them to make a big leap.

But seriously, they are too talented to finish worse than the Knicks.

[CalgaryRapsFan]

Boston at Minnesota (Moves Minny one step closer to overtaking Denver)

The real key is for the worse of the two teams to get as bad as possible. Then there is a slim chance the better team wins one of the three lotto spots, and our pick essentially jumps up into the top 5 or 6.

I thought the bottom-5 was set, but Minnesota is intriguing, especially if Denver goes into a nosedive.

Philly and the Lakers are hopeless - seem destined for bottom 2.

Brooklyn is 8 games behind NY, and Phoenix is 8 games behind Denver - likely bottom 4.

Minnesota is only 5 games behind Denver - 5th worse, unless they make a run in either direction.


It still appears that 6th/7th worse is the best case scenario for Denver and NY to finish, heading into the lottery.

[Primer]

I thought the bottom-5 was set, but Minnesota is intriguing, especially if Denver goes into a nosedive.

Philly and the Lakers are hopeless - seem destined for bottom 2.

Brooklyn is 8 games behind NY, and Phoenix is 8 games behind Denver - likely bottom 4.

Minnesota is only 5 games behind Denver - 5th worse, unless they make a run in either direction.


It still appears that 6th/7th worse is the best case scenario for Denver and NY to finish, heading into the lottery.

Denver nose dive plus KAT leading Minny to a late season surge seem entirely possible. So that takes Denver down to the 5th pick. Could Minny also overtake NY in the standings? Less likely, but possible. So 5/6 seems possible, with 5/7 much more likely. Most realistic scenario is probably 6/8, but there is enough time left in the season for me to dream. How great would it be to be guaranteed the 6th pick? Fucking amazing.

[Primer]

The real key is for the worse of the two teams to get as bad as possible. Then there is a slim chance the better team wins one of the three lotto spots, and our pick essentially jumps up into the top 5 or 6.

Only helps if the picks are more than 1 apart, and helps more the further apart they are. Still good chance they end up 2 or 3 apart, so the worse pick jumping up could move us up a sport or two.