The Los Angeles Lakers have the percentages in their favour. 55.8 is the magic number. That percentage is their chances of keep at top 3 pick in the 2016 NBA Draft.
Now that’s not bad, they’ll most likely get that pick. If they don’t be sure to mute everyone because at least half of them will say “FIX! THE FIX IS IN!”.
Mitch Kupchak, representative for the Lakers when the Draft Lottery goes down, is prepared for any outcome. If they have the pick, they have the pick. If they don’t, he’s prepared for that also.
“That’s how you have to plan, yes,” Kupchak said Friday at the team’s practice facility. “And I’m fine either way. I would love to have the pick. I want to keep the 32nd pick. But you have to look at it both ways, and if it doesn’t work out where we get the pick, we get the pick next year and we still have the ability to improve the team this summer.”
“Well right now, all we have is the 32nd pick, and I’m not really going to talk about the other pick because we don’t have it,” Kupchak said. “I mentioned earlier that I’m superstitious. I don’t like the whole ‘karma’ part of that. [I’m] not nearly as superstitious as my predecessor, Jerry West. There’s a traffic light at the Forum that he would never drive underneath. I’m not that superstitious. But I’m superstitious enough not to want to talk about a pick that we don’t have.”
I didn’t realise general managers were so superstitious and paranoid.
Why is he chalking it up to superstition though? Wouldn’t you call it “being a good general manager”? You know, planning for every possible outcome? Like a good GM?
