How do you WANT the lottery to go – from an entertainment perspective?

 As a Lakers fan #1 pick to Lakers don’t care about rest.  If Lakers don’t get #1 of course hope they move up to top 3.

 LeBron/Zion would be nuts. Best place for Zion and best for the league.  

Not sure how to build a title team around Zion since I think he is best used as a center in a pick/roll, fast breaking game.  

Otherwise Zion is just another Elgin Baylor, Gus Johnson, Charles Barkley, or Prime Larry Johnson.

Although I think you get about 5 years of Dream Team Chuck out of Zion Williamson. One of the best/most fun "peaks" EVER.

 For entertainment purposes, Luka/Zion or Trae/Zion would be hard to stop.  Sexton/Zion would be super fun too. 

Although a Grizzlies front line of Zion, Jaren, and Jonas Valanciunas could be deadly.

 For entertainment, absolutely no question – Kings win the #1 and it conveys to Philly. The tears and butthurt out there would be unbelievable. 

I think the Knicks are the best blank sleight for Zion. It’s hard to imagine his fit on most teams. He’ll be good no matter what, but teams like Atlanta are really trying to spread the floor with their young guys (Trae, Huerter). I’d kind of like to see Zion on The Wolves. I don’t like Minny, but I feel like they need a kick in the pants (of energy) and Zion is exactly that.  

 Atlanta or Dallas would be the best fit for Zion. New YOrk wouldnt be too bad either since they have their youth movement going on.

Come on be realistic. Lakers would trade Zion immediatey.

 I have a feeling that the ping pong balls will reward teams that tried to win this season, so I want Grizzlies, Hawks and NO to be on the top 3.

 Its New York, and its not even close. Since the Knicks last made a conference finals in 2000, only six other franchises have failed to do so as well: Wizards, Blazers, Pelicans, Hornets, Clippers and Grizzles. And most of those teams had a modicum of success. Biggest of all, everyone of those teams have had a true franchise player. Elton Brand with the Clips, Gasol and Conley with the Grizz, AD with the Pels, Kemba with the Hornets, Wall with the Wiz, and now the current Blazers with Dame. All of those players have meant more to their franchise than ANY player NY has had ini the last 20 years. As good as Carmelo was, he was not a true face of the franchise. 

There are 10s of millions of Knicks fans DYING for something to believe in. A year and a half of Kristaps doesnt count either. Zion in Mecca for resurrection. (Just the gravitas of the connotation gives me goosebumps).

 I want Charlotte to get the No. 1 pick.

I’ll be honest, I’m not a Charlotte fan in any way. shape form or fashion. I think they’ve jacked up the draft just about every year, have failed to develop really anyone of note over the past decade, and while I love MJ, I recognize he’s been a miserable exec.

However … I respect the crap out of the fact Charlotte has not yet just throw in the towell and gone full tank. Really to their own detriment. You would have a hard time arguing they are any better off right now going, roughly, .500 every year than they would be if they just fielded a WNBA team and went 0-82 a couple times.

So, as someone who appreciates a team giving an honest effort, I’d like to see that pay off in their favor. What better year for that to happen.

I’d personally love to see Zion in ATL with Trae, Collins & co. They’re going to have big $ to play with next summer too when Baze & Plumlee expire and everyone else is on rookie deals. But they’d be a good fit for RJ too.

I think I’d say:

NYK #1

PHX #2

ATL #3

 1. Hawks-They get Zion to pair with Trae and Collins..I live in Atlanta, I’m bias. 

2. Suns-They take Ja Morant..they need a guard like him with those young guys. 

 From an entertainment standpoint, I actually think Dallas getting the top pick would be absolutely fascinating. They have a 6 percent chance. Zinger’s game would complement Zion nicely, as would Luka’s. Mark Cuban, like him or not, seems to have a knack for landing on his feet. Those three guys would generate a ton of buzz, and would be more fun than Zion being banished to the desert of Phoenix or the sorry franchise that the Bulls or Hornets have become.