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https://reurl.cc/MRngyn
作者: Zach Lowe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI8jEtnd4_0&t=2s&ab_channel=NBA

Back in the drawing room, the first pingpong ball came up: No. 14. Fourteen
balls, numbered 1-14, zip around a classic air-powered lottery machine before
a league attorney stops the machine and sucks one up. That ball becomes the
first of four drawn in sequence, eventually making up a four-number
combination. There are 1,001 possible four-number combinations using the
numbers 1-14. The NBA tosses out one of them -- 11, 12, 13, 14 -- and divides
the rest among the 14 lottery teams based on their team record and lottery
odds.

回到抽籤室第一個號碼出現了"14號"。14顆球1~14號，在樂透機裡面飛舞，聯盟律師
在樂透機前抽出了一顆球。該球成為了由4個號碼組成的獎號的第一顆球。
數字1~14共有1001種組合，而NBA把11.12.13.14這組合去除，並根據14隻球隊戰績與
樂透機率來分配1000種組合

The Spurs, Detroit Pistons and Houston Rockets held 140 combinations apiece
-- 420 of the 1,000. The New Orleans Pelicans, the lottery team with the best
record, owned only five.


Detroit, San Antonio -- have almost all the combinations featuring the
numbers 1 and 2. Seeing 14 as the first ball had the whole room in play for
Wembanyama for a fleeting 10-second window. Wright panicked. "Oh my god, we
are out," he thought to himself, Wright told ESPN in the drawing room minutes
after the drawing ended. (ESPN had one of 19 media members present to watch
the drawing.) Each lottery team sends one person to the room to represent
them. They sit in rows, with the teams with the best odds up front and the
long shots in the back.

In that last row, Teresa Resch, the Toronto Raptors vice president of
basketball operations, elbowed Bryson Graham, the New Orleans Pelicans
assistant general manager, when that 14 came up, both recalled: We have a
chance!

獎號是按數字順序排列的，因此戰績最差的球隊火箭.活賽.馬刺有的獎號大多是1或2。
看到14號做為第一顆球，整個房間都在這飛馳的10秒鐘為了Wembanyama戰鬥
Brian Wright(馬刺GM.抽籤代表)慌了心想:「天啊，我們出局了」
每個樂透球隊都會派一名人員到抽籤室，在依機率分排，機率高的在前排差的在後排

當14號出現時在最後一排的Teresa Resch(暴龍運營副總裁)肘擊了Bryson Graham(
鵜鶘協理)「我們有機會!」 兩人回憶道

Ten seconds after the 14, up popped the next ball: 5. Almost everyone was
still in play. Michael Finley, the Dallas Mavericks assistant general
manager, knew that any of the teams below the Mavericks in the lottery
pecking order -- the Raptors, Pelicans, Chicago Bulls and Oklahoma City
Thunder -- leaping into the top-4 could knock the Mavs back from No. 10 to
No. 11. That would have meant the Mavericks sending their top-10 protected
pick to the New York Knicks -- a potential embarrassment given Dallas'
late-season tanking to slide out of the play-in race and into that No. 10
slot. (The NBA fined the Mavericks $750,000 for "conduct detrimental to the
league.")

14號出現的10秒後下一顆球出現了"5號"，幾乎所有人都還在比賽中。


Finley stayed calm, knowing the odds still favored the worst teams. "I wasn't
nervous," he said. Finley won a championship with the Spurs in 2007, and
joked after that drawing that perhaps he should have brought along his Spurs
championship ring for good luck.

Finley保持冷靜，知道機率仍然對最差的球隊有利並說道:「我不緊張」，Finley曾經在
07年跟馬刺贏得冠軍，在抽籤後開玩笑的表示應該戴著馬刺冠軍戒來祈求好運

All around the room, team officials flipped through eight sheets of paper
showing which teams owned each combination. The mood was frantic.

Ten seconds later, the third ball: No. 8. Several teams were still alive.
Brett Greenberg, the Washington Wizards assistant general manager, knew
instantly the Wizards had a chance. All 67 of their combinations had the No.
5 as the lowest digit. There were 11 balls left in the hopper. If the last
ball drawn was No. 7, No. 9, No. 10, No. 11, No. 12 or No. 13, the Wizards
would get Wembanyama. Eleven balls left; six were winners for Washington.

在房間中球隊人員翻閱著顯示著那些球隊擁有的獎號的那8頁紙，情勢非常緊張


"Holy s---, we have a chance," Greenberg thought to himself. He hunched over
his combination sheets and took a deep breath. Greenberg was well-stocked
with lucky charms: his father's lucky coin (a Kona dollar); a replica 1978
Washington Bullets championship ring; and a silver coin inscribed with the
Wizards logo and the phrase "game-changer" -- a memento Flip Saunders, the
Wizards head coach from 2009-2012, gave to players who made pivotal plays.
Greenberg also wore orange socks -- his grandmother's favorite color.



Joel Glass, the Orlando Magic's chief communications officer and drawing room
representative, also knew his team had shot: The No. 4 ball would send
Wembanyama to Orlando. Meanwhile, a No. 6 would give the Indiana Pacers the No. 1 pick. "For a short
second, it was pure joy," Kevin Pritchard, the Pacers president of basketball
operations, told ESPN afterward. A No. 3 ball would have sent Wembanyama to
the Portland Trail Blazers.

Joel Glass(魔術代表)也知道他們還有機會--"4號球"將會把Wembanyama帶到魔術隊，同時
"3號球"會把Wembanyama送到拓荒者，而"6號球"則會送到溜馬隊「有那麼個瞬間是很純
脆的喜悅」Kevin Pritchard(溜馬代表)這麼告訴ESPN

Then the final ball: No. 2. That disqualified most teams, but Wright wasn't
sure if the Spurs owned the winning combination: 14-5-8-2. As Wright scanned
those eight pages, Clay Allen, the Houston Rockets general counsel, tapped
him: "I think that's you," Wright recalled.

A league official announced that it was indeed the Spurs. Wright barely
reacted. He stayed silent and gazed downward until Allen reached over to
shake his hand.

"Brian was way too calm," Graham joked afterward. "I mean, come on!"
"I was going to get up and run around the room," Resch said of her plans to
celebrate if the Raptors had won.

接著最後一球"2號"，這讓大多數球隊失去了資格，但是Wright不是很確定馬刺有這組
獎號14-5-8-2，當Wright在檢視那8頁紙的時候，Clay Allen(火箭代表)輕輕拍了他
說:「我覺得是你」 Wright回憶道。
一名官方人員宣布確實是馬刺隊，Wright幾乎沒反應保持沉默低頭凝視直到Allen伸出手
跟他握手。
「Brian太冷靜了」Graham(鵜鶘代表)事後開玩笑說著「I mean, come on!」
「我打算站起來在抽籤室跑來跑去」Resch(暴龍代表)談到如果暴龍贏得樂透的計畫

The drawing was largely anticlimactic after that, with the Charlotte Hornets,
Blazers and Rockets claiming picks No. 2-4 in that order.
After the drawing, everyone stays in the room for about an hour until the
televised reveal is over. No one is allowed to leave. Everyone in the room
surrenders their phones, tablets, laptops and smart watches upon entering so
that no one can communicate the results to the outside world. The attendees
gossip and eat until watching ESPN's lottery broadcast -- the only people
alive who know the results already.



心得:
原來第四顆球那麼競爭(球池剩11顆)，除了文章沒提到的1號 獎號大概率在火箭或活賽
2號-馬刺
3號-拓荒者
4號-魔術
6號-溜馬
7.9.10.11.12.13-巫師

巫師有著6/11的機率呢

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