if there's a lockout...and

[ggill15]

we get the number 1 pick what happens....if the entire next season is scrapped do we get to choose from two years of NCAA picks.....that would be sweet..

that's gonna be a fun draft....

gonna suck for kobe if they strike....no beating jordan then...and an astrisk if a shortened season championship happens...

 

[froman77]

the 2011 draft happens before the CBA expires, so this year's draft pick is fine. but next year if the entire season is cancelled, then we get an NHL scenario where they need to determine some way of distributing picks when there wasn't a season before. This process should favour the Raptors a little, since we've been lousy for a little while now

 

[KaponOOOOdontshoottheball]

Good memory Fro. I dug this up from the wikipedia article regarding the 2005 NHL draft:

The loss of the 2004–05 season meant that there were no results on which to base the order of the 2005 entry draft. The league settled on a lottery system in which all teams had a weighted chance at the first pick, expected to be Sidney Crosby. The lottery was tilted so teams with fewer playoff appearances over the last three seasons and fewer number one overall picks over the last four seasons had a better chance of landing higher picks. The complete order was determined by the lottery, and the 2005 draft was conducted in a "snake" style, meaning in even rounds, the draft order was reversed. This system was an attempt to compromise between those who felt all teams should have had an equal chance at the first pick and those who felt only the weaker teams should have been in the running.

That does benefit the Raps. Wouldn't that be crazy if we ended up with two top picks two years in a row without having to suck again for one more year? The downside to that obviously is that we don't get an entire season of Penis Cunter/Shiteater face/Balderon/Poon Machine jokes