The NBA held its annual Draft Lottery Tuesday night, in which there was much speculation whether the Laker's would fall out of the top 3 teams to pick first. Renowned sportswriter Bill Simmons predicted the draft lottery drawing outcome with these tweets:
Turns out that he was right about the Lakers being in the top three but not correct about the team who would receive the No. 1 overall pick. The Philadelphia 76ers got the top pick, and the Lakers snagged No. 2.
After NBA Commissioner Adam Silver revealed that the Sixers got the top pick, Philly fans went crazy and chanted their highly-circulated hashtag #TrustTheProcess, feeling much vindication from tanking this past season as the league's worst team.
Many other conspiracy theorists are claiming on Twitter that former Sixers center and NBA Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutumbo broke the news earlier than the NBA wanted expected with this tweet:
Of course, upon winning the top pick, the Sixers front office claim that this wasn't true.
Anyway, here is the entire NBA Draft order:
1. Philadelphia 76ers
2. L.A. Lakers
3. Boston Celtics
4. Phoenix Suns
5. Minnesota Timberwolves
6. New Orleans Pelicans
7. Denver Nuggets
8. Sacramento Kings
9. Toronto Raptors
10. Milwaukee Bucks
11. Orlando Magic
12. Utah Jazz
13. Phoenix Suns
14. Chicago
15. Denver (via Houston)
16. Boston (via Dallas)
17. Memphis
18. Detroit
19. Denver (via Portland)
20. Indiana
21. Atlanta
22. Charlotte
23. Boston
24. Philadelphia (via Miami, via Cleveland)
25. L.A. Clippers
26. Philadelphia (via Oklahoma City, via Denver and Cleveland)
27. Toronto
28. Phoenix (via Cleveland, via Boston)
29. San Antonio
30. Golden State.
Second Round
31. Boston (via Philadelphia, via Miami)
32. L.A. Lakers
33. L.A. Clippers (via Brooklyn)
34. Phoenix
35. Boston (via Minnesota, via Phoenix)
36. Milwaukee (via New Orleans, via Sacramento)
37. Houston (via New York, via Sacramento and Portland)
38. Milwaukee
39. New Orleans (via Denver, via Philadelphia)
40. New Orleans (via Sacramento)
41. Orlando
42. Utah
43. Houston
44. Atlanta (via Washington)
45. Boston (via Memphis)
46. Dallas
47. Orlando (via Chicago)
48. Chicago (via Portland, via Cleveland)
49. Detroit
50. Indiana
51. Boston (via Miami)
52. Utah (via Boston, via Memphis)
53. Denver (via Charlotte, via Oklahoma City)
54. Atlanta
55. Brooklyn (via L.A. Clippers)
56. Denver (via Oklahoma City)
57. Memphis (via Toronto)
58. Boston (via Cleveland)
59. Sacramento (via San Antonio)
60. Utah (via Golden State)
