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Hawks, Bobcats duke it out for top pick

By Chad Ford
ESPN Insider

Thursday, March 24, 2005

Chat wrap: Chad Ford While roughly 20 teams are battling it out for 16 playoff seeds, there's another group with a different prize in mind. For bad teams such as the Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Bobcats and New Orleans Hornets, the goal no longer is Ws – it's lottery balls. The NBA instituted the lottery system in 1985 in an attempt to discourage teams from deliberately tanking games late in the season in an effort to compile the worst record in the league and thus secure the No. 1 pick. ...

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