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Randball: Even worse lottery luck, if possible, for Wolves

July 31, 2014 at 1:41AM

Houston Texans running back Arian Foster walks onto the field during NFL football minicamp, Tuesday, June 17, 2014, in Houston. (AP Photo/Patric Schneider) (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

A proposed change to the NBA lottery system would give equal weight to the bottom handful of teams in the league instead of giving an edge to the team with the worst record. It made me wonder how the Wolves might have fared if the NBA had been operating for the past 25 years under that system.

Without knowing the exact NBA proposal, it's hard to figure this out with certainty, but after crunching the numbers my best guess is it wouldn't have been good. The Wolves — who have had historically bad lottery luck — would have been even worse off in this new system.

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Texas Tech head coach Kliff Kingsbury listens to a question during the NCAA college Big 12 Conference Football Media Days in Dallas, Monday, July 21, 2014. (AP Photo/LM Otero) (The Minnesota Star Tribune)