One of COVID’s many impacts was that sports crawled to a halt across the world. In the UC San Diego environment without a booming sports culture, I was skeptical of how much there would be to cover. When I joined, everything was still online, and I didn’t actually get to cover my first sports game.
The NBA Draft Lottery took place on Tuesday, May 16. While teams are seeded in reverse order of their regular season standings to determine their draft position, the lottery was implemented to prevent tanking for the best player in the draft. Teams that do not make the playoffs are awarded a set amount of entries;.
Editor’s Note: The following is a satirical article for The DisreGuardian, a series of articles published annually for The Guardian’s April Fool’s issue. Sports will resume publishing normal content next week. Anthony Davis has decided to call it quits, ending a career defined by limitless potential and frequent injuries. Drafted by the Pelicans as.