Washington Wizards Links: All About 2011 NBA Draft Lottery

That image is from this CSN Washington report.  Now you know how much of a chance the Wizards have to get each pick in the 2011 NBA Draft lottery tonight.  Onto the links.

General information

• The lottery will begin at 8:30 p.m. on ESPN.  We'll be opening a thread well before then. [SB Nation D.C.]
• Here are the odds for each team to win the number one pick. [NBA.com]
• The only team to win the lottery with the fourth-worst record was San Antonio back in 1987.  As noted here, it hasn't happened since the current weighted odds system began in 1994. [@MrMichaelLee]
• I'm sure most of you have done this already, but here's the ESPN lottery simulator. [ESPN]

Wizards-specific lottery stuff

• Lots of attention was given to Irene Pollin's lucky jacket last year, but Ernie Grunfeld had a good-luck charm he used too.  He's using it again this year. [Michael Lee]
• The Wizards are hoping John Wall brings them good luck again. [Carla Peay, Washington Times]
• Talking with the editor of NBADraft.net about this year's draft. [SB Nation D.C.]
• My little brief for SBNation.com on the Wizards' draft needs.
• This would be a bad year to get unlucky. [Craig Stouffer]
• Blog buddy Mark Haubs of The Painted Area thinks the Wizards winning the lottery again would be the best outcome for the NBA as a whole. [ESPN Five on Five]
• An argument that Derrick Williams' most likely landing spot is in D.C., because the Wizards would take him No. 1 overall when no other team would, or something. [AZStarNet.com]
• An argument for why the No. 3 pick is better than No. 1 because it means the Wizards get Enes Kanter, or something. [Wizards Extreme]

General lottery stuff

• An anonymous executive calls this year's draft "horrendous" [Marc Spears, Yahoo!]
• Five teams that need to win the lottery most, none of which are the Wizards. [Pro Basketball Talk]
• Depending on how the ping-pong balls shake out, this year's draft could offer more problems than solutions. [Jonathan Abrams, New York Times]
• A look at Kahwi Leonard's latest workout.  He's definitely shooting up draft boards. [Draft Express]

Miscellaneous Wizards stuff