SIXERS NEWS

The Sixers played the lottery tonight, that is the NBA draft lottery and well let's just say they didn't win the big bucks, but they matched a couple numbers and won the $500 or whatever they give you for only matching 2 or 3 of the numbers. Anyway, they didn't even come close to getting one of the top 3 picks, as they were left with the 12th pick in the draft. Still, with the talent pool in this draft, considered one of the deepest in recent history, there's still a chance they could get somebody pretty good even as low as the 12th pick. Or, with their other 2 picks in the draft, 21 and 30, respectively they could make their selection some sort of package deal, so as to trade up into the top 3 for Kevin Durant or Greg Oden. Or they could keep all 3 of their picks and use them. Either way, they are still in pretty good shape as far as I am concerned.