>Washington is in the middle of a search for a new general manager and is sending Unseld onstage while assistant general manager Brett Greenberg represents the team behind the scenes in the drawing room. If they move up to win Tuesday, that top job gets a lot more enticing.
>First, they’ll need a heap of good karma.
>Since the NBA began using a weighted lottery system to award the No. 1 overall pick in 1990, the team with the eighth-best odds or worse has jumped up to claim the top spot just four times. In 1993, the Orlando Magic pulled off a stunner by leaping to the top spot despite having the lowest odds to win (1.5 percent); the team drafted Chris Webber then dealt him to the Warriors for Penny Hardaway. In 2008, the Bulls jumped from ninth (1.7 percent) to draft Derrick Rose with the No. 1 overall pick. In 2011, the Cavaliers won the lottery with the eighth-best odds (2.8 percent) and in 2014, Cleveland moved up again, from ninth (1.7 percent), to grab the top slot and draft Andrew Wiggins (it then traded Wiggins for Kevin Love).
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>Washington has either stayed planted at its expected position or moved down in 18 of its 21 trips to the lottery since 1990. The worst-case scenario Tuesday is slipping to 12th, and there is a smidgen of a chance it does so — those odds are listed as just over 0.0 percent. The odds the Wizards fall to 11th are a mere 0.4 percent.
>Their last big leap was when they moved up from eight to three to nab Otto Porter in 2013.
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>Washington is in the middle of a search for a new general manager and is sending Unseld onstage while assistant general manager Brett Greenberg represents the team behind the scenes in the drawing room. If they move up to win Tuesday, that top job gets a lot more enticing.
>First, they’ll need a heap of good karma.
>Since the NBA began using a weighted lottery system to award the No. 1 overall pick in 1990, the team with the eighth-best odds or worse has jumped up to claim the top spot just four times. In 1993, the Orlando Magic pulled off a stunner by leaping to the top spot despite having the lowest odds to win (1.5 percent); the team drafted Chris Webber then dealt him to the Warriors for Penny Hardaway. In 2008, the Bulls jumped from ninth (1.7 percent) to draft Derrick Rose with the No. 1 overall pick. In 2011, the Cavaliers won the lottery with the eighth-best odds (2.8 percent) and in 2014, Cleveland moved up again, from ninth (1.7 percent), to grab the top slot and draft Andrew Wiggins (it then traded Wiggins for Kevin Love).
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>Washington has either stayed planted at its expected position or moved down in 18 of its 21 trips to the lottery since 1990. The worst-case scenario Tuesday is slipping to 12th, and there is a smidgen of a chance it does so — those odds are listed as just over 0.0 percent. The odds the Wizards fall to 11th are a mere 0.4 percent.
>Their last big leap was when they moved up from eight to three to nab Otto Porter in 2013.
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