Pacers go big, Clippers picky
Want to move NBA media off tanking columns this spring?
Treat them to stories debating which exemplar personality NBA teams should send to the lottery drawing in May. The conniving GM or impactful young player or a retired legend or Botox'ed owner. Guessing games regarding grinning representatives, awaiting word on where their team will pick in June after eight months of treating fans to basketball that doesn't matter, at all.
Who represents the clubs when it counts the most? Who will react the worst on camera? Who wins it with flair, a few country club fist pumps? Who slumps, abandons posture until their microphone's wireless transmitter falls off their beltloop and onto the floor? Who looks annoyed, even in victory? Who won't move? Who has it coming to them? Who brings the luck?
Push media toward features about superstitions, suitcoats with separate pockets stitched for eight individual rabbits feet (equaling exactly one foot of dead rabbit, brightly-colored), or a single lucky penny. Or maybe a sneaky, little lucky bitcoin token, a gift from a friend, we won't say his name but he's a little older and he's currently in charge of a country leading an ongoing invasion of Ukraine. He has short hair.
The 13-38 Indiana Pacers will not make the playoffs this season but they will be asked to send a representative to the lottery in May, where the Pacers may lose their pick to the 23-27 Los Angeles Clippers, because the Pacers traded a protected 2026 first-round pick to the Clippers for Ivica Zubac on Thursday.
