Lakers are locked into the 4th spot, the tank is dead. Time to pick up a few wins before the season mercifully ends.
I'm finally starting to relax, we are locked in at 4. After that it's on the ping pong balls, but with an 80+% chance we should feel good. We deserve it too dammit.
Eric Pincus @EricPincus · 2h 2 hours ago Lakers cannot catch the 5th place Magic in the standings if they lose vs. Nuggets - which is happening - so 82.8% odds in the lottery Eric Pincus @EricPincus · 2h 2 hours ago If the lottery is held 1000 times - Lakers keep a top-5 pick 828 times - but in 172 instances? Fall to 6 or 7. They need some luck still
I feel like a huge burden has been lifted off my back now that I can happily and excitedly root for the Lakers to wins games now. The way it's suppose to be! I'm so happy we can put the worrying and stress behind us. Onto finishing this season out strong and then getting my mind and body ready for the May 19th lottery!
Not quite out of the woods just yet. As I've said for some time I'd much rather be in that three spot with a 90 something percent chance to keep the pick. Four is much better than the five, but I won't breath easy until we actually know we can keep our pick on May 19th. Here's hoping for that to go down.
I think I'll be more nervous about this upcoming lottery than I've been during many of our past playoff games. Honestly, just the other night I had a dream where I watched the beginning of the lottery. Right away, the 15th place team wasn't there (meaning that they defied the odds and got a Top 3 pick, pushing us out of the Top 5). I woke up soon after that, but I'm going to be nervous about something like that throughout the entirety of the lottery.
Something to root for - Houston loses so we improve our pick and LAC remains in their current position.
That's the only thing I'm looking at box scores for these days... Where Houston and Clips are at. Hopefully the Spurs win again at Hou to further slide them down.
