The Phoenix Suns have found themselves in frustratingly familiar territory, awaiting the bounce of some ping pong balls to determine where they'll be selecting in the NBA Draft.

The Suns, who finished with the second-best record of any team that missed the postseason, are slated to pick 13th. Of course, they could still move up into the draft's top three, of which there is a 50.1:1 chance of happening.

Of course, if you want to get greedy and aim for the number one spot (and a chance to draft Kentucky's Anthony Davis), you better hope Lady Luck is on the Suns' side, because the chances of that happening stand at 500:3.

How do those odds stack up to other things that could (but don't often) happen in life? According to one site, not too well.

• Fancy yourself a bowler? The chances of you putting together a perfect 300 game are 11,500:1. How about a golfer? Well, as you know it's tough to ace a hole, as the odds of that are 5,000:1.

• So maybe golf isn't your game, big deal. There are plenty of Olympic sports out there, and the odds of winning a medal in one of the games are 662,000:1.

• The good news is that the odds of catching a ball at a major league baseball game stand at a reasonable 563:1, though the chances you'd have of getting away with murder (say, of someone who stole the ball from you) are a disturbingly 2:1. Conversely, the odds of being murdered yourself are 18,000:1, so at the very least your attacker, who is likely to get away, may not actually exist.

• Don't worry about that, though as it's not all bad. Hell, the odds of dating a millionaire are 215:1, though the odds of dating a supermodel are a disappointing 88,000:1. Hey, who says money can't buy happiness?

• One thing money can buy, though, is a private jet, which is good when you realize the odds of being on a plane with a drunken pilot are 117:1. Even worse are the odds that a plane -- flown by a drunken pilot or not -- will lose parts that ultimately fall to the Earth and kill you, because the chances of that happening are 10,000,000:1.

• But hey, none of this will even matter if the Earth we know ceases to exist, which would be the case if the planet experiences a catastrophic collision with an asteroid. The good news there is that the odds of that happening within the next 100 years are 5,000:1. Then again, your chances of dying from a shark attack are 300,000,000:1, so there is that.

Whatever you think, until their card is shown, the Suns have a chance to come up big Wednesday night in New York. Sure, the odds are against them, but you never know…