For 59 out of 66 games this season, the basketball didn't bounce the Bobcat's way and, on Wednesday, the ping-pong balls didn't, either. The Charlotte Bobcats hoped last night draft lottery would be a scratch and win scenario, since they had a 25 percent chance of obtaining the number one overall pick. Instead, it became a scratch your head situation, a new nadir for the team that finished with the lowest winning percentage in NBA history (what we like to label as "Silast" place). Ironically, the selection was awarded to the original Charlotte franchise, the New Orleans Hornets, who won triple the amount of games as the Bobcats (21 vs. 7). After Dan Gilbert-gate last year, could this be another conspiracy to compensate a franchise that the league felt it owed a favor to after its star's departure (this time, "the decision" was entirely the NBA's), a thank-you present to a new owner, an attempt to reward a team that tried hard until the season finished (the Hornets won 8 of their last 13 games), in contrast to one that fell faster than Facebook's IPO and cared as little as Mark Zuckerberg about it?
It's doubtful. If the league was going to intentionally interfere, it would've treated the team moving into the nation's largest media market, the Brooklyn Nets, so that they have something more significant to sell than Jay-Z sitting courtside*. Secondly, a shoddy squad still needs a lotto luck: the club with the worst record hasn't been awarded the top pick since 2004. In a draft that's widely regarded as weak - Anthony Davis is perceived as the best building block, a Lego in a class of Lincoln Logs - the Bobcats might've gone from hitting the jackpot to landing jack squat.
*Maybe if he performs at every halftime or they project Tupac's hologram into a front row seat.
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