[Game] 65/82: Kings vs. Bulls 08 MAR 2026, 6pm PT/9pm ET

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Mr. S£im Citrus said:
Only if the Kings both finish without the worst record and without the Number One pick; the way I see it, if either one of those things happen, you're still wrong.

I might still say it anyway, though, because I've also never once said that the organization isn't dumb. If anything, I've intimated that I think it is quite dumb but, since I got out of the rooting-for-teams business, I just don't let it bother me overmuch. "Tanking correctly" is not a thing I care about, though, since I'm opposed to the practice on principle, so you only get that after the lottery is held, if both conditions are met.
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No because the worst record / 1 seed are within team control. The final pick after that is just a matter of dumb luck. You can be dumb as a rock and still be lucky or sharp as a tack and be unlucky. So the final pick is irrelevant to how well you played the system.
 
QWERTYLICIOUS said:
Does this even really matter at the end of the day? Especially since the top 3 odds are leveled across the board? Can you REALLY consider the Kings to, if they finish with the worst record in the NBA, to have the #1 draft lottery "seed"? Or, are you also assuming/implying that a "seed" can be assigned to multiple teams? And, if that is the case, then would it even be considered a "seed" at that point???
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The seed is where you sit going into the lottery and it matters for odds and non top 4 pick order. Yes teams can be tied and technically have the same seed and pick order is determined by luck. For example we and Orlando (Chicago’s pick) had the same seed and they won the coin toss.

Those of us in the pro tank crowd want the 1 seed alone so we are guaranteed no worse than the 5th pick.
 
QWERTYLICIOUS said:
Does this even really matter at the end of the day? Especially since the top 3 odds are leveled across the board? Can you REALLY consider the Kings to, if they finish with the worst record in the NBA, to have the #1 draft lottery "seed"? Or, are you also assuming/implying that a "seed" can be assigned to multiple teams? And, if that is the case, then would it even be considered a "seed" at that point???
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I am currently more preoccupied with why, if he considers the terms to ostensibly be synonyms, does he use both of them back-to-back in the same sentence?
 
sactowndog said:
The “seed” is the pre-lottery term. They cannot finish with worst record and not the top seed.

They can finish without the worst record and the top pick.

Seems to be legal definition day.

Will you post this org is as dumb as we thought that they cannot even tank correctly.
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I remember you freaking out after the 4-game win streak... and we're 3-20 since that point.

Is that not tanking correctly? I haven't looked, but I'd be pretty confident that's the worst record in that span.
 
sactowndog said:
No because the worst record / 1 seed are within team control.
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Only to a certain extent. We can't pull our healthy players willy-nilly as the league will crack down on that. They have warned everyone they are on the watch for tanking behavior and are also indicating that they may be making changes to the draft next year because of what they are seeing.

Our players will play to win. Some nights we'll hit a lot more shots than usual. Whatever. It happens.

Are there small minutes tweaks we could do? Sure. But if we're sitting a healthy Westbrook and playing Stevens 35 minutes a night they aren't going to let that fly.
 
Are we not still the “#1 seed?” Last time I checked we still had the worse record in the NBA. Not sure how much more we can “correctly tank.”

***Brooklyn just won 2 straight. Good thing they don’t know how to “correctly tank” either. :p
 
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