The Washington Wizards Are In A MISERABLE Place After The Draft Lottery | Grant & Danny

The Washington Wizards Are In A MISERABLE Place After The Draft Lottery | Grant & Danny

The Wizards, they didn’t get the number one pick. They didn’t even play. It happens. They didn’t get the number one pick. So, they probably got the number two pick, right? Nope. That didn’t happen either. Three. They fell to three. They didn’t fall to three. No. Fourth pick. That stinks. I’m being told they didn’t get the fourth pick either. Danny, they might as well have fallen out of the first round. They will be picking sixth after yet another lottery shiv right to the ribs for Wizards fans to deal with. Way less important because that was a year of rebuild, a year of tanking for not. That just wasted and ruined a lot of months of planning and doing things the right way for the organization to try to get yourself Cooper flag in the number one pick. But the Nationals were gifted two runs last night. They cannot score. They are incapable of scoring. They hate it. They were gifted two runs to tie the game in the third. One of the crazy moments of a baseball season. Over 162 games, like a top five wild moment. Down to your final out. Ball gets thrown down the line cuz Dylan Cruz is a hustler and two runs scored to tie the game and then they immediately immediately let the Braves walk off in the bottom of the ninth. Other than that, how was the DC Sports Night, Mrs. Lincoln? Terrible. Uh that’s as bad as it gets. Period. Thank you. Um, so my fury at the NBA this morning, and really it started last night with the unfathomable depression and the darkness and void of ineptitude as it washed over me where once again the Wizards get boned in the lottery. And for people that are saying, “Stop whining about it.” First of all, shut up. Not today. Second of all, for anybody who thinks this is made up, it ain’t. I got the stats for you. In history, the Wizards have moved up in the lottery twice where they’ve outkicked their coverage. Say you finish with the seventh horse record, you pick sixth. Yay, Dad. Yay. Twice. They’ve stayed in the same spot eight times. So, neutral luck. Even that’s, you know, kind of misfortune because there’s a chance you could move up or down. Everybody seems to. They’ve gone down. They’ve fallen to a worse spot in the lottery 11 times. 11 times. including last night 11 different times we’ve gotten reared back and kicked in the testicles to be shellacked and swatted aside as an irrelevant also ran in a league that has four cool cities. Pardon me association. We’d like to join the cool cities. Is that possible? No. I’ll bend over and take it for another 45 years. Cool. You got your priorities in order. You’re doing great. Tik Tok league. Let’s have more conversations about outfits of jackasses arriving to the arenas. More guys violating their contracts and conspiring with their buddies who are rep by the same agent during the season to go play somewhere else. Pardon me. Sorry, bug. You market the stars so well and everyone makes so much money on it and you you’re all rich now off the backs of a couple of superstars that you let have the autonomy to do whatever the hell they want in the association. We’re trying to get one of those guys and I know we can’t just be a cool city. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Can we try just just real quick to maybe go through a process where we could get one before they could say no to us? Can we try to do that? No. Terrific. Another 50 years up my butt. Awesome league. You’re doing great, sweetie. Your league sucks. Let’s have everybody play the same way. Who could shoot 53s first tonight? Yay. Having a great time with basketball. I love the game so much. And I’m sorry, Grant. I I was going to say this for later, but it’s happening now. I love this game. I love basketball. I’m so stupid. I grew up thinking I was going to be able to play both baseball and basketball in college. A doctor told me because of my big stupid uh platypus feet that I was going to be 6’4. I was under the delusion that I could do both. I have loved basketball my entire life. This version sucks. The league is poisoning itself against people like me. Keep doing more of this. You’re so concerned with someone maybe on purpose not trying to be awesome for a little bit of time that the the best the worst teams have a a 10% chance basically of having a stupid ping-pong ball bounce their way. And time after time after time, someone jumps in from outside the top 10 to find a way to steal the generational talent that might for the first time in my lifetime, other than fleeting moments of an age broken need, Michael Jordan, a a a gunthreatening teammate in Gilbert Arenas and John Wall for an hour and a half make my franchise relevant for the first time in decades since they won a championship before I was born. Once it might happen. Nope. 20% chance at the six pick. You’ll never guess what they got. You’ll never guess. Oh, the six pick. Cuz of course they did. Here’s a rusty cover rust covered Lance with a running start directly in the brown eye. Yay league. I love you. What a stupid stupid exercise in futility. But let’s have more dads run on the court and trash talk your stars. Let’s have more feuds with with with uh shoutdy show guys and and players and make that what our league’s known for. Let’s make that our branding. Has Stephen A. Smith weighed in today? Hopefully I get a chance to hear it. God, I’m so mad. I can’t believe that. I can’t believe it. That’s where I That’s what bothers me the most about it is that I thought maybe one time true it might come true wish. Baby, if if if if cross my fingers and and help hope against hope. Take this to the throat. Here’s a punch. Here’s a shiv. Here’s a here’s a tresway. Lean back and bomb one. Puma, let’s rage right on my yamag. What a stupid league. What a stupid dumb league. And it’s my own fault for caring. I’m sorry, buddy. Back to you. No, I’m I’m It sounds like you’re having a good day so far. I’m having a hell of a day. It should rain more. Did it rain today? Yeah, it did. It did, didn’t it? It felt on brand. It probably only rained over my head. Go fool Milton on your ass. I was going to say, is this Milton or is this It might as well. We’re one and the same today. If you’ve seen the new Marvel thing, I’m I’m the void. I’m the Century’s dark side. Spoiler alert. They’re the Thunderbolts and now they’re the Avengers. I don’t know what they’re doing either, but Fantastic 4 is coming. They even showed it in the trailer and now all of a sudden at the end of the movie, you wait around for the end credit scene. I’m spoiling everything today. Just like the league spoiled my love for basketball. Has anyone shot any threes yet? Let’s Let’s get that going. It’ll be a lot of fun. Well, the league does stink. It sucks right now. But that’s very very different, I think, than what happened last night. But here’s where I’ll start. I don’t think that the lottery is rigged. But damn if I have a hard time explaining it away. Oh, I forgot that part. Go ahead. I don’t think that the lottery is rigged. But today is not the day I’m going to stand on the table to defend it. It’s a lot of How did that happen year after year after year after year after year? Do you know what the chance of last night’s top three one two three coming in in that order is? Bet it’s a small percentage. So, if you suspend even the the the coin toss for the Mavericks to even get into the mix, people forget about that. The Mavericks had to have the coin toss just to get the pick that was accidentally able to move all the way up to the top of the board last night. So, that starts with a 50%. People are saying they had a 1.8% chance of getting the number one pick last night. No, they didn’t. They had a 1.8% chance of getting the pick after they won a coin toss, which is 50/50. So, now redo that math. It’s 0 point something. Okay, but the chance and I’m not even accounting for the the the coin toss first. So, this is just after you already win a coin toss of getting those three picks in that order last night. 0.04%. Great system. It’s really working to a tea. So, the NBA wants to argue with me about whether their thing’s rigged. And what I would say to the NBA is frankly, Scarlet, I don’t give a damn. Okay, your system does not work. Do another system. You’re so worried about tanking, which you shouldn’t be, which is not the pjorative that you think it is, which is just rebuilding in a way that should work, that you are doing this to prohibit tanking. Danny, it it’s not prohibiting it. No, it’s not. Teams are still tanking to the same extent that they always have. If you could show me that fewer teams tank because they get screwed by the lottery and they don’t want to tank, I would say to you, okay, it’s a stupid system, but the thing that you think’s a big deal, which isn’t, you’re actually getting out of the game and you want it out of the game, which you shouldn’t. So, at least I can acknowledge that your bad idea to get the thing out of the game doesn’t doesn’t need to be out of the game is working. But your bad idea to get the thing out of the game that doesn’t need to be out of the game is also not getting it out of the game. So, what is the point of any of this? I don’t understand. And we could go through the history. I’m sure people have been doing it all day long, but this goes back to Patrick Euing to the Knicks in the 80s. That was the first time where everyone went, “That’s interesting.” No, I mean, more recently, 2011 with the Pelicans and the new owner and and the vetoed trade for New Orleans or at the time, I guess it was the the uh Hornets, 7 to1 chance they they get their pick. 2012, LeBron leaves Cleveland and they get Kyrie. You know, the Cavs back-to-back years. LeBron’s thinking about coming back to Cleveland. They need one more piece to make him want to do it. And wouldn’t you know it, they get the number one overall. Isn’t that amazing? The Mavs this year at 40 to1 8% chance of picking in the top four. That’s it. 8%. No business being in the top four after trading Luca. 1.8% after the coin toss, which is 50/50 of getting the number one pick. And they do it. And this happens routinely. It is infuriating. The only team in the top four that should have been there was Charlotte. Three other teams jumped up. Yeah. That aren’t as needy. Crumble up your GD system and find a new one. It doesn’t work and it stinks. The if you want people to believe there’s no impropriety and that it’s not rigged. You can’t have results that people go, “Is it rigged?” You see what I’m saying? Like constantly, by the way, and it happens a lot. The guy that texted Tim Donnie hundreds of times per day calling playoff games last night. You know what I mean? And nobody cares. And the league doesn’t care. They just kind of keep the machine rolling. Well, they’re busy, right? Because they’ve got, you know, someone got a shoe deal. So, we’ll talk about that on ESPN. And then what did Russell Wil Russell Westbrook wear walking into the arena? And who’s going to play with who, you know, there was a big story all day yesterday that Giannis is open to the idea. It’s not even a real story. It’s just he the possibility of maybe playing elsewhere has crossed his mind. Well, no kidding. Every single person in America has ideas cross their mind all day long that they’re not going to act on. Every married man in America has some ideas every now and then that cross his mind and he goes, “I’m a married man.” That’s a weird thing to have cross my mind. Who gives a damn what my what’s crossing his mind? These It’s such a stupid league. It’s just stupid. That’s what it is. Yeah. And after last night, I that was that was a pretty good nail in the coffin. So, to your point, I’m actually, believe it or not, I’m actually okay with the lottery. I really am. I’m I’m okay with it. I hate the lottery. What I’m not okay with is the minuscule chance that the regular normal reasonable outcome happens. You haven’t had a team with the worst record win the lottery since 2018. We got seven lotteryies deep since then. When the team with the worst record won the lottery, bump up the percentages. That so that’s that’s where I begin. I can’t do 14%. Thatm. So for people, let’s triple that. for the casuals that don’t know the the numbers and how it works. The worst three teams in the NBA have a 14% chance of getting the number one pick. But even still, the Wizards last night, and you cited it on the show many, many times cuz as a longtime Wizards fan, you kind of saw this one coming. everyone knew uh the they still had like a 48% chance of falling out of the top the top top four the the top four which by the way the narrative going in just so everyone’s on the same page the media that covers the draft most closely the people that I follow they said the Wizards will be gold obviously the number one pick Cooper flag that’s what you want generational prospect but they’ll be in a golden spot if they get a top two pick they’ll be in a fine spot not great but fine as as long as they’re in the top four. If they get the fifth or sixth pick, they’re screwed. That was kind of the narrative going in. I think the Wizards own front office, based on what I can tell, the idea was, look, let’s prepare for the worst and hope for the best. As long as we’re picking in the top five, we’re going to be able to make this work. And then you get the six, wouldn’t you know it? I mean, you cannot make this up, Danny. You can welcome Coniple to town. But yay. Get get your season tickets now, I Now the only good thing is Danny and I know you’ve been mad but I want to cheer you up a little bit. The last time they picked six that actually worked out very very well. They got Yon Vesley. Now I’m not going to make a joke saying that I wasn’t in a good mood cuz I wasn’t. I get you know what that’s fine. I deserve that today. I deserve all of it. So this is a friendly spot for the If you left that loser alone in the gym for an hour he wouldn’t score 10 points. Like if you said you can’t shoot inside the lane and they were like I want to take on Vesley on the team that’s competing for the playoffs to buy myself more time and that guy got another 10 years as the GM. I don’t remember one single moment from him on the basketball court. That was cool. What I do remember is two things. One, he stood up and kissed that smoke of a girl. He kissed a lady which was which was the best. Everyone was like he’s going to be a great player. Look at him kiss this hot girl. Not everybody. That’s not how it works. Not how it works. If you kiss a pretty girl, it doesn’t mean you’re good at basketball. He sucks so bad and he couldn’t score or dribble or pass or do anything at an NBA level. I pissed a lot of people off that night, by the way, hosting the draft party. What I remember most about him cuz I peed right next to him at Capital One Arena at a Capitals game. Oh, yeah. There was like a little barrier between us. So, if you’re asking, I I can’t tell you a whole lot. There were follow-ups I had. I’m going to hold I can’t give you the answers to that cuz there was like unfortunately partition. Unfortunately, there was a partition. Fortunately for everybody, unfortunately. Did I say fortunately? Fortunately. Unfort Yes. Now, fortunately. For unfortunately, there was a partition. But anyway, the point of the dude’s story is in the bathroom. I got a selfie with Yan Vesley. I got to find it somewhere. Did you Everybody finished their business first, right before you? Oh, no. No. Yeah, definitely. I think it was actually like outside of the bathroom. You could see the bathroom in the background. But I got And I’m like, I just want this for fun cuz I’m going to show it to Danny and just He’s going to lose his mind. That that was a great troll drop when you did that, by the way. Um, so that was one of my favorite pictures. But anyway, that was the last time they picked six. Yeah, I think things will work out. That all work great, man. And here’s the thing. They tried the the Wizards under correct management for the first time in decades actually said, “Let’s give this best practice a shot. Let’s try it.” That is one thing I want to fight against a little bit today if if we could uh together. Locking arms here. You knew you knew it was going to happen. They did the right thing. The most annoying thing about today, Danny, to me is the people that are taking their victory lap that you shouldn’t tank. Happy now with the tanking. Happy now. Happy now. LOL. Crying emoji. Happy now. LOL. First of all, grow up. They did what they should do. That’s number one. Why grow up? Grown men don’t use crying, laughing emojis. You’re not really loling. Type something out or don’t. or run with your eyes closed and see if you hit something. Dary, you’re going to have to hover over that dumb button today. I I’ve towed the line three times. I’m sorry. Go ahead, Grant. All they did was the right things all year. And that’s all you can do, by the way, is line up the best possible scenario for yourself to figuratively, but literally hit the lottery, get your Cooper flag, and just once one of these times it’s going to be our turn. Yeah. Thewami next Brown year guy, right? Well, last year they picked two, which was the highest it’s been in a while, and it was the worst draft in years and years and years. Now, they made the right pick and Alex seems like he can play. And I do love this front office and what they’ve done so far. I think they picked the right guy in SAR. I think they picked the right guy on Balakal Kulabali. I think they made the right selections with Kashan George who’s a steel and Bob Carrington who was there last night who’s a steel by the way. Never sent him back to address. Yeah, that’s the last Bub gets to do that. Bub, you did nothing wrong. You just sat there. It’s not your fault. You minding your business, but now that’s my association. We have reached the end of the road with you representing the team. That’s the last one. But they did everything right. The part they control is not their fault. Yep. They don’t control that part. together. They did the stuff that they could do. And if someone’s yelling about tanking cuz they wanted to go win 32 games this year and pick eighth, they’re wrong and they’re stupid and just turn the other cheek and walk away. We We don’t need to give them a seat at the table today. We got enough to worry about. But that stunk. I felt so bad. Poor Wizards fans. I mean, you know, those of us that are Wizards fans that are just kind of like tangentially watching this whole thing melt down to the ground from afar and we’ll go pick up the ashes and help rebuild when we we need to, we’ll get our hammers and our nails. No, I mean, the people that were like in the room that had to run out when it started to catch fire, like the people that are still at the games, the people who have Bub Carrington jerseys, I’m sure there’s a few of them, season ticket holders, the people that are still going to the arena regularly. Those people, God, I felt so bad for them last night. This was months and months and months for last night. Yeah. The whole point was was the the the pot of gold or the whole point was the the light at the end of the tunnel. Correct. And just an avalanche. It’s like you prepared for one year for a play. Last night was opening night. Last night, but it’s only a one night play by the way. Like you get one night and nobody came. You walked out on the stage and you started to say your first line and there’s not one effing person in the crowd and you forgot your lines and then someone pooped on your shoe and then stole your wallet and then punched you in the jaw. The light at the end of the tunnel was the predator’s homing missile. It’s what a stupid thing. Oh man. And I you know what was so funny? The best part about it all I actually was saying this to people yesterday. I have almost given up on basketball. Like I find myself getting sucked back in during these playoffs. They’ve been really good. I did not go to one Wizards game this year. Uh that’s not true. I went to one when when we had a sweet night for the the fan and uh we got to talk to Will Dawkins. That was the only Wizards night I went to. And it’s not that I I hate going. It’s I go to so many Caps games that the idea that I go to my pregnant wife and I say I’m going to go back to Capital One Arena again. And I’m not going to trade one Caps game for one Wizards game. I’m just not doing it. Not Not until they deserve it. But that’s like two years in a row where I think I’ve been to like two total Wizards games. I’ve never done that in my life. I’m just But the NBA is everything they do is a turnoff to me. They just have a three-point contest every single night from half court. Every The whole league is about what everyone’s wearing and then they might play basketball after. I hate NBA Twitter. I hate it. I should mute every single word that has to do with basketball on Twitter. We’re starting to get to to golf treatment for me for for muting words. But but here’s my point. Yesterday, Lenel will like this. He’s a basketball guy. Yesterday, all day long, NBA Jeeps was back. I was so excited. I was 12 years old again in my backyard shooting hoops, getting steamed up to go watch Tracy Murray hit threes. Okay, I wanted to see Rod Strickland go coast to coast. I was sed yesterday. NBC’s getting the rights again. And all I could think about was if they get the number one pick in Cooper Flag, I literally said to my wife, I’m going to take my kid to 10 games next year. We’re going to be marks. We’re getting it on the ground floor and we’re gonna do it’s sore. It’s flag. It’s bal. And and let’s sign Kevin Durant to a two-year deal to end his career in a year from now. And let’s go play basketball. Let’s go Wizards. And then that happened and I’m so far out again. What happened to the air in the blue? The NBA hates me, but they hate you more. They hate you the most. But they hate us all. So screw all of you. Sorry. Pretty much. It’s actually you pretty pretty much covered it. I’m out. It’s been fun. What time did the Caps play? Looks like a seven o’clock on Thursday. We got one more of those. As a nice little dessert for everything. So my re-entry into the Wizards Wild was like 3 hours long. It was yesterday. I just I wanted him to be good once before I die, Grant. Like that’s 46 years, man. No 50 win seasons for my whole life. My whole life. Not one Not one time has that ever happened. I want it one time. I’m not even talking about a championship anymore. That’s That’s a fool’s errand. That’s stupid. Best thing that’s happened to Wizards fans in a while is the silly Netflix documentary about when our guards pulled guns on each other. Remember that? That documentary is a 10 out of 10. It’s really good. But you you may remember that two of our guards pulled guns on each other in the locker room. That’s why the title’s shooting guards. Do you get it? Best documentary title ever. spits a 10.

Danny Rouhier goes on a EPIC rant about the Wizards and their bad luck in the NBA Draft Lottery.

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