CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Cavaliers remain alive in the postseason. But it won't be long until the franchise turns its attention toward the NBA Draft Lottery.
And when it does, a familiar face will be representing the franchise at the biggest ping pong ball drawing in all of sports.
Following the Cavs' 105-101 Game 7 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Sunday, Cavs owner Dan Gilbert tweeted a picture of himself and his son, Nick. In the post, the older Gilbert shared that Nick, who underwent brain surgery earlier this year, watched Sunday's game from courtside, which only made the Cavs' victory more special to the team's owner.
The now 21-year-old Gilbert suffers from neurofibromatosis, which causes tumors to grow anywhere on the body at anytime .
Gilbert also revealed that it will be Nick who represents the Cavs at the NBA Draft Lottery in Chicago on May 15. Nick Gilbert famously represented the Cavs at the 2011 NBA Draft Lottery, in which Cleveland won the No. 1 overall pick, which it eventually used to select Kyrie Irving. He also represented the Cavs in 2012 and 2013 -- the latter of which the team also won before selecting Anthony Bennett.
Defying the odds this year, however, may not prove as easy. After trading Irving to the Celtics last summer, Cleveland lays claim to the Brooklyn Nets' first-round pick, which has the eighth-best odds (a 2.8 percent chance) of being the No. 1 pick and a 9.9 percent chance of landing in the top-three.
But with the Cavs most-famous good luck charm representing them, What's Not to Like?
