NBA Draft Lottery is TODAY! What are your good luck charms?

by Mike Prada on May 18, 2010 8:16 AM EDT in Game Threads

Well, today's the day we've been pointing to for months. Today is when we find out whether our franchise has any sort of luck. The moment is just 12 hours away, and I'm really anxious. It's weird being this anxious for something you have no control over, but I'm used to it with this franchise.

For some reason, I have a good feeling today. Don't get it twisted: this draft will not determine the course of the franchise in the next 10 years. If we don't win the lottery, all hope is not lost. At the same time - it's a pretty big deal, and somehow capitalizing on that 10.3% chance would do wonders for the speed of our rebuild. I'm eternally hoping for the best. (As a reminder, the 10.3% chance means we have one out of every ten possible four-ping pong ball combinations that are used to determine who gets the top pick. If three teams below the fifth-most odds jump in front of us, we'll pick eighth. We cannot pick fourth).

So on today's day of reckoning, I ask everyone - what are your good luck charms? What are you doing today to try to swing fate to our side? Are you wearing something special? If so, take a picture and share it. Don't be shy - it's totally normal to have weird superstitions. We're fans. We're not GMs.

Me? I'm wearing my GIlbert Arenas shirt and will be staring at this image above my desk all day. As good luck charms go, it's not much, but it's all I got.

GO WIZARDS!

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Gilbert Arenas a "good" luck charm???

Maybe this year we’ll draft at # “0”…

by Iwitness on May 18, 2010 8:22 AM EDT reply actions

that was last year though

by DaGribb on May 18, 2010 11:18 AM EDT up reply actions

I don't have any throwbacks, and my Butler/Jamison shirts are hung up

So I gotta go with GIl.

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by Mike Prada on May 18, 2010 11:24 AM EDT up reply actions

Wearing my Jared Jeffries jersey

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by Jake Whitacre on May 18, 2010 8:50 AM EDT reply actions

My ritual

Burning incense and invoking God Shamgod

by Unselds on May 18, 2010 8:54 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs

God

I’m taking the religious approach, begging God to show some mercy on the Wiz.

by macattack777 on May 18, 2010 9:04 AM EDT reply actions

SIgh, studiously avoiding paying attention

or maybe, like for the 2000 draft I’ll find out we got the number one pick in the middle of an IKEA. Time to got to IKEA!

The artist formerly known as ledellforlife.

by Sean Fagan on May 18, 2010 9:14 AM EDT reply actions

Mike, that looks like a "before" photo in a laundry detergent commercial

With John Wall’s uniform being the “after.” Ever hear of color-safe bleach? No wonder the Wizards have such dirty and dingy luck.

Seems appropriate, though, after a season where the Wizards aired all of their dirty laundry.

by disgrunted on May 18, 2010 9:54 AM EDT reply actions

go wizards!!!

despite the fact that i believe that the draft lottery is rigged, today I will
wear my lucky Caron Butler jersey
and keep my stuffed wizards monkey with me at all times
GO WIZARDS!!!!!
(heres to hoping for john wall)

by Gchaimso on May 18, 2010 10:04 AM EDT reply actions