Celtics have no need for Lottery luck charms this year
The NBA Draft Lottery takes place Tuesday night and the Celtics will not be participating. What does that mean beyond the fact that the Celtics were good enough to avoid a trip to Times Square in the spring time?
It means that we won’t get another glimpse of co-owner Steve Pagliuca’s ceramic rooster, which he pack into a suitcase and brought with him to last year’s lottery for good luck. The figurine, a symbol of good luck in Portugal, was given to Pagliuca by Robert Sherman, the U.S. ambassador to that country.
SB Nation graded the rooster out at an A- on its report card for good luck charms last year (only the Sixers earned a straight A). Ultimately, the rooster didn’t help the C’s, who entered the night with the fifth-best odds of the 13 teams involved yet dropped one spot when the ping pong balls were drawn.
It’s safe to assume that the Celtics, who will pick 16th and 28th in the first round of this year’s draft on June 25, are pleased to be nowhere near the room in which ping pong balls are so heavily relied upon as a means to chart a team’s future path. Given their mountain of assets and the marked improvement by Brad Stevens’ squad in 2014-2015, it may be a while before the Celtics are back at the Lottery.
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