Pistons' Cade Cunningham, Cavs' Evan Mobley will always be linked by NBA Draft lottery luck
They were so close together on the board.
Pistons' Cade Cunningham, Cavs' Evan Mobley will always be linked by NBA Draft lottery luck originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . If the ping pong balls had been drawn differently, Cade Cunningham and Evan Mobley may have ended up on opposite sides of the Detroit Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers playoff series.
They'll always be linked by how close together they were in the 2021 NBA Draft. The Pistons won the No. 1 pick in the lottery and took Cunningham, who was the consensus top choice.
The Cavs ended up No. 3 and got Mobley. As every NBA fan knows, the lottery goes all sorts of ways, and it could've flipped here.
Detroit was one of three teams with 14% chance at the top pick, as one of the bottom-three from the year before, and got that spot. MORE: Darryn Peterson had a worse vertical jump than a Patriots 319-pound lineman Houston, which also had a 14% chance, got the second pick. The Rockets chose Jalen Green.