{"id":569813,"date":"2010-05-19T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/general\/2010\/lady-luck-on-wizards-for-winning-nba-lottery\/"},"modified":"2010-05-19T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T10:00:20","slug":"lady-luck-on-wizards-for-winning-nba-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569813","title":{"rendered":"Lady Luck On Wizards For Winning NBA Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/nba-draft-lottery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11288\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/nba-draft-lottery-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Season 2009-2010 has hit <strong>Washington Wizard<\/strong>s with one blow after another so franchise representative <strong>Irene Pollin<\/strong> must have heard angels singing when <strong>No. 1 draft choice<\/strong> is drawn out for <strong>Wizards<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Losing is not something new for any team but <strong>Wizards<\/strong> left last season in 26-56 with some spiky highlights.<\/p>\n<p>Their key player <strong>Gilbert Arenas<\/strong> is placed under suspension for breaking NBA\u2019s zero tolerance policy on firearms. That\u2019s for using his locker in the Verizon Center as the safe for his guns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abe Pollin<\/strong>, head owner of Wizards who also made the move to drop the controversial name Washington Bullets, passed away in November 2009. It certainly is a tough moment of letting go but it seems not to be the end of the rough season as they needed to also trade <strong>Jamison<\/strong> and <strong>Butler<\/strong> for trimming down salary expenses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pollin<\/strong> family\u2019s legacy with <strong>Washington Wizards<\/strong> will be handed over to new owner <strong>Ted Leonsis<\/strong> and the deal will probably get the seal by June. With the upper hand in enjoining either <strong>John Wall<\/strong> or <strong>Evan Turner<\/strong>, lottery may not be the only thing where this team can win. But then luck is not a reliable force that 2011 NBA championship would need.<\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/sports\/2010\/texas-rangers-manager-admits-using-cocaine\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Texas Rangers&#8217; Manager, Admits Using Cocaine'>Texas Rangers&#8217; Manager, Admits Using Cocaine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/sports\/2010\/jeremy-tyler-experiment-gone-wrong-out-from-maccabi-haifa\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Jeremy Tyler: Experiment Gone Wrong, Out From Maccabi Haifa'>Jeremy Tyler: Experiment Gone Wrong, Out From Maccabi Haifa<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/sports\/2010\/minnesota-twins-extends-contract-of-joe-mauer\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Minnesota Twins Extends Contract of Joe Mauer'>Minnesota Twins Extends Contract of Joe Mauer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/sevensidedcube\/OXLF\/~4\/kZzAbXfg0j0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Season 2009-2010 has hit Washington Wizards with one blow after another so franchise representative Irene Pollin must have heard angels singing when No. 1 draft choice is drawn out for Wizards. Losing is not something new for any team but Wizards left last season in 26-56 with some spiky highlights. Their key player Gilbert Arenas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}