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So I get an email yesterday afternoon from Nick Engstatt, who is the NBA director here at the Lockdown Podcast Network, who had an idea to do a weekly mock draft for the lottery teams of the 14 picks in this lottery as these other teams are playing in the playoffs.

The Warriors, of course, are not.

This is going to be a way

for us to generate some content every week. And I think a fun way to kind of go over some of the

options. So what we'll do is simulate the lottery every week, hear from the other locked-on

podcast network hosts who are representing those other lottery teams. And we'll just do our own mock draft and kind of see

some of the different options that are out there. I think the Warriors are an interesting

position because obviously they were on the fringe of the playoffs, but they potentially could

have two lottery picks. They could potentially have two top four picks, slim chance that that

happens. It would require their own pick going,

there's like a 2% chance it falls within the top three, and then that Minnesota pick,

Vetter O, that falling at number four. So slim chance that happens. Well, it didn't happen

in this lottery, not to spoil it too quickly, but we will be making two selections. The Warriors in this mock draft

will end up getting that Minnesota pick. I will tell you where it falls. I will tell you who the

Warriors take in this mock draft here in a moment. But I did want to start with the comments from

Bob Myers in these exit interviews. We covered the exit interviews pretty extensively

yesterday with Conno. If you haven't listened to that, I highly recommend it. Very in-depth,

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