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Cavaliers win NBA draft lottery again

What's not to like? Being in the lottery every year.Nick Gilbert expects the Cleveland Cavaliers are through with it, and if so he sent them out a winner again.The Cavaliers and their owner's son beat the odds for the second time in three years, winning the lottery Tuesday night to give them the No. 1 pick for the June 27 NBA draft.Two years after charming viewers by responding to a question about being on stage by saying: "What's not to like?" the bowtie-wearing son of Dan Gilbert wore a stern look before this one. He said he expected he was done coming here and that he believed the Cavs would be in the playoffs next season.Then they got a great jump on that goal, earning the first pick even though they had only the third-best odds to do so.And 16-year-old Nick Gilbert delivered it, just as he did in 2011, when the Cavs used the pick to take eventual Rookie of the Year Kyrie Irving."Kyrie is a hell of a player ... but this also felt almost as good," Nick Gilbert said. "That was the fi...

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