NBA Draft lottery could be heads-or-tails situation for Lakers

LOS ANGELES>> What if a coin flip costs the Lakers their prized high first-round draft pick? It's unlikely, but it's statistically possible.It's been fairly well-chronicled that if the Lakers finish with the NBA's second-worst record, they enter the draft lottery with a 55.8-percent chance to land a top-three pick, and thus avoid having to send it to Philadelphia.