Cavs hit jackpot in draft lottery
The Cavs hit the jackpot in Tuesday night’s NBA Draft lottery, taking home the No. 1 and No. 4 picks in the upcoming draft.
Things broke right for the Cavs as their pick fell into the No. 4 slot while the pick they received from the Clippers in the Baron Davis deal landed them the No. 1 pick.
Maybe the draft lottery was karma from last summer and the injury-plagued season the team just endured? In any event, the Cavs now have a very real opportunity to accelerate the rebuilding process.
The Cavs should be able to walk away with two solid picks in what “experts” are calling a weak draft class. If it turns out to be true that this draft is thin, having two of the first four picks is definitely the way to go.
The gold standard for the Cavs is obviously the 1986 draft, when the team selected Brad Daugherty and Ron Harper in the first round and traded for Mark Price, a second-round pick by Dallas.
But since then it’s been more miss than hit for the Cavs when it comes to the draft lottery as they have only hit on four picks – Kevin Johnson, Terrell Brandon, Andre Miller and LeBron James.
And just look at some of the draft misses – it’s not pretty: Vitaly Potapenko, Derek Anderson, Trajan Langdon, DeSagna Diop, Dajuan Wagner and Luke Jackson.
But that’s ancient history. It’s a new day in Cleveland basketball.
Wake up and smell the coffee.
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How bad was Vin Mazzaro’s performance Monday night against the Indians?
Try historically bad.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Mazzaro was:
- the first pitcher in modern baseball history to allow 14 runs in less than three innings of work
- the first reliever to allow 14 runs since Tommy Warren in 1944
- the fifth reliever to allow 14 earned runs (he was the first to do it since Les McCrabb in 1942)
Oh, and he was sent down to the Royals’ AAA team after the game.
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Say what you will about David Beckham – he certainly has his share of critics – but the dude still knows what to do with a free kick.
It’s ridiculous what he does here – and he knows it. Beckham tries to keep his cool after the goal, but he breaks into a smile pretty quickly.
Amazing.
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