re: Did Dikembe Mutombo let the cat out of the bag re: NBA Lottery?

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it is impossible for 20 bouncing balls to give proper odds needed and %'s of all those teams odds. How the fricking do you make a bouncing ball .8% chance?

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because the balls have nothing to do with the actual assigning of picks. they take 14 balls numbered 1-14 and then draw 4. they then compare the number combination to a list of all possible combinations and they see which team was assigned that combination. so if the numbers they drew were 1,6,7,5 they would then see who had that combo and thats who gets the pick. the odds dont come from the balls, they come from the amount of number combinations assigned to a team