As many of you may (or may not) know tonight is the 2010 NBA Lottery, one of the more underrated events in the NBA. It has everything you could ask for: drama, mystery, comedy and sports wrapped into one. It’s one of those events that you can get into whether your team is involved in it or not. Although…it’s much more stressful when your team is involved. Believe me, I think 90% of Blazer Nation were complete emotional wrecks in the buildup to the 2007 Lottery. In recent years, ESPN has turned the unintentional humor/entertainment up another notch by bringing the top 2-3 teams representatives on stage so we can all see their raw emotions. Myself, I have always been captivated by the Lottery. Growing up as a kid I thought the ping-pong balls were fun and always wanted to play with the machines. As I grew older, it was the reactions of GMs or teams randomly sending players to represent them. The mystique surrounding the envelopes always gets me.

(And yes I will use any excuse to fit a Public Enemy lyric into a blog post. For more nonsense and my lottery picks click ‘Continue Reading’ after the jump.)

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• We’re in the playoffs. I know expectations are raised and what not…but honestly would you rather be down 0-1 in a best-of-7 series, or heading to Lottery-ville, watching these playoffs, thinking about what could have been and pondering ‘could James Harden work?’. Exactly, and yes that was a shoutout.
• Eight teams are down 0-1. Three other teams are in the same exact situation as Portland, having lost home-court advantage. Unfortunate? Yes. End of the world? No. Riddle me this, would you rather be in Magic, Celtics or Spurs fans shoes right now? I’m not too sure you would. Think about it…Portland played arguably one of their worst games of the year while Houston played one of their best. On the flipside, San Antonio blew a 13-point lead, Orlando blew an 18-point lead and Boston saw a free throw rattle in and out and had to watch Tyrus Thomas hit jumpers. I will gladly take the blowout loss, much easier to recover from than those losses I described.
• The Utah Jazz are getting demolished in ways we haven’t seen in a while. Always, always fun to see the Jazz go down…even if the Lakers win. I mean, thank goodness we aren’t the Utah Jazz or Detroit Pistons right now. Yikes. They are just in absolute dead-end situations. Again, I’d rather have to pull a Jesse Jackson and keep hope alive than be doomed to my fate.
• Chris Andersen is not on the Blazers roster. That should make you feel better.
• No matter what The Dream Shake tries to sell you, Houston cannot play much better than this. They can’t. And if they do well then hey….they just deserve it. But they can’t. So, boom.
• Channing Frye is returning to the bench. So no more watching him taking jumpers and getting beasted in the post. No more wondering why he is even on the court. No more praying he will get off the court. That should make you feel better.
• A completely different Blazer team should show up for Game 2. Sometimes in a fight you have to see your own blood before you open up a few cans of whoop-ass. Nobody makes us bleed our own blood. Nobody.
• Houston still hasn’t gotten out of the first round since 1997, we still got that going for us. They are known to get tight. Maybe that will get you in a comfort zone?
• The series is far from over.
• It can’t get worse than Saturday night.

And if none of those things make you feel better…well…..last resort……watch this. I wanted to embed it but it was disabled (curse words) so off you go. If Bill Cosby trying to salsa and shimmying can’t perk you up then I don’t know what to tell you.