So you may have heard, the NBA draft lottery took place, where teams go through the lottery process to determine who picks first. Note that this is only the lottery and not the actual draft, so no players were picked yet. The Nets, with their exciting new billionaire Russian owner, lost the lottery despite having the best odds at 25%. On the other hand, the tormented Washington Wizards won it. So they will have the rights to draft first come summer.
While we here all know that John Wall is definitely the number 1 pick, and this blog post here makes an amazing and thorough argument for John Wall being #1, some people still question that. Well, it doesn’t matter, because all indications from the Wizards is that John Wall will be drafted first. And it doesn’t matter if Gilbert Arenas is on board or not, he can either go with it (and play 2 guard, which he is fine with), or get himself into more trouble.
It’s been interesting following John Wall these past weeks. He’s gotten a lot of media exposure and even showed up in LA for a playoff game. I’m really excited. I think he’ll do wonders for Washington. The question now is that since the Wizards have all that extra cap space after dumping Jamison and Hayward, what are they going to do with it? Can they sign a good free agent or some excellent players to surround Wall with? We’ll see.