CJ was in Boston, Matt was home and I was stuck without a TV but all three of us were able to offer up some great insight on the NBA Draft Lottery.

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Okay, you can stop laughing. It was 100% snark. But still fun. The exchange of the night:

Jason: am I the only one that wants to see Boston NOT get a top three pick just to make Bill Simmons’ brain explode?

Matt: Here’s what will happen. The Knicks will somehow get the top 11 picks. David Stern will then turn to the others, shrug, then randomly ban Andrei Kirilenko from tonight’s game for having a permissive wife.

Jason: Amare Stoudamire has been suspended for tonight’s dinner with his family by David Stern because he stood up from his recliner during last night’s Pistons/Cavs game.

Matt: oh, Tim Duncan has just been suspended for laughing at you e-mail.

Jason: Oh now you’re just being rediculous. Tim Duncan has not laughed since he was 3 years old.

CJ: Hah, these are awesome… And yes, Bill Simmons will be getting back out on that ledge they finally got him off of a month after the Colts beat the Pats for the AFC championship.

Also, wow, what pointless hype-building!

Jason: This email thread is my only tie to the lottery. I’m stuck in a meeting right now. I’d much rather be watching a bland interview with David Stern telling me how FAAAAAAAANtastic the playoffs are - even the Eastern Conference!!!! - and the unending hype for players 30% of whom will be complete flops and another 30% of whom will not make their fans happy no matter how well they play.

Come on Stuart Scott - yell “Booyah!” once just for me.

CJ: I’m sitting in a hotel in Westborough, MA… If I step outside and look off to the east, I think I can already see the fires from the riots in Boston at them only getting the 6th pick. I have to risk life and limb going back into the city tomorrow, so wish me luck.

For the record, it was cold at the Red Sox game I went to on Sunday, but I decided to wear a Purdue sweatshirt rather than my Colts Super Bowl champions one.

Jason: Coward. You didn’t think you could handle some drunk Baaahhhhhhhhstaaahnites? heh

Matt: Coward! no, I kid. that’s the right decision. As we’ve seen in that pizza video, Pats fans are willing to take down their own… think of what they would have done to a Colts fan!