This is the Maple Leafs' Cooper Flagg, LeBron James moment

This is the Maple Leafs' Cooper Flagg, LeBron James moment originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Some draft lotteries are forgotten.

Some go down in history. This is one of the latter. The Toronto Maple Leafs entered Tuesday night with the fifth-best lottery odds.

They left it with the No. 1 overall pick and the right to draft Gavin McKenna. If McKenna is indeed the pick, and if the young Canadian is even close to as good as advertised, this will be luck that has only been matched a few times in sports.

MORE: Sabres' storybook season is real, and Stanley Cup dreams are valid It's more than just good fortune, though. When the Sharks got Macklin Celebrini, or the Oilers got Connor McDavid, or the Penguins got Sidney Crosby, that was good fortune, too. This has another layer to it.