Jaanipoeg
Well-Known Member
I have shared my thoughts on this before, but I just really don't see it. Its fun to **** post and I will write my insane conspiracy theories but only tongue in cheek.
1. The lottery is audited by EY, a multinational organization who operates on trust and legality, and is massively larger than the NBA. They audit ~25% of fortune 500 companies. I just don't see them risking their rep on the NBA which wouldn't even rank in top 50-100 of their clients by size.
2. Sure there are owners who care about economic incentive, but not all of them. Ballmer doesn't give a **** about making money on the Clippers and would throw a fit if he felt another team was getting an advantage he doesn't. You don't screw billionaires.
3. With that said, where is the economic incentive is wasting generational talents like Anthony Davis, LeBron James, Zion Williamson, Andrew Wiggins, Kyrie Irving, etc on the Clevelands and New Orleans of the market world? I know you can write a narrative, but you can do that with really whoever wins.
4. Secrets get out, especially over 40 years. I could see Ewing especially as it was the first draft, but don't see how it could be now.
If Brooklyn wins this year we can say it was the league setting up one of their bigger markets after it cratered. If San Antonio wins we can say the league is rigging for SA again to set up Wemby. If Philly wins people will say the league is bailing them out to find a way with Embiid. If NO wins people will say they're rigging it to set him up with Zion. If Dallas manages to jump up people will have the same narrative that they did for NO after they got Zion after AD left. You can always give reason to chaos in retrospect. I will still bitch and moan like a kid if SA gets Flagg and theorize that SA has deep state influence on Adam Silver and potentially has satanical powers, but I won't actually mean it. Its an entertainment league where we extrapolate single data points like they mean something and give meaning to a player being the first to score exactly 21 pts, 12 rbs, 6 asts while shooting 7/12 in March under a full moon.
1. The lottery is audited by EY, a multinational organization who operates on trust and legality, and is massively larger than the NBA. They audit ~25% of fortune 500 companies. I just don't see them risking their rep on the NBA which wouldn't even rank in top 50-100 of their clients by size.
2. Sure there are owners who care about economic incentive, but not all of them. Ballmer doesn't give a **** about making money on the Clippers and would throw a fit if he felt another team was getting an advantage he doesn't. You don't screw billionaires.
3. With that said, where is the economic incentive is wasting generational talents like Anthony Davis, LeBron James, Zion Williamson, Andrew Wiggins, Kyrie Irving, etc on the Clevelands and New Orleans of the market world? I know you can write a narrative, but you can do that with really whoever wins.
4. Secrets get out, especially over 40 years. I could see Ewing especially as it was the first draft, but don't see how it could be now.
If Brooklyn wins this year we can say it was the league setting up one of their bigger markets after it cratered. If San Antonio wins we can say the league is rigging for SA again to set up Wemby. If Philly wins people will say the league is bailing them out to find a way with Embiid. If NO wins people will say they're rigging it to set him up with Zion. If Dallas manages to jump up people will have the same narrative that they did for NO after they got Zion after AD left. You can always give reason to chaos in retrospect. I will still bitch and moan like a kid if SA gets Flagg and theorize that SA has deep state influence on Adam Silver and potentially has satanical powers, but I won't actually mean it. Its an entertainment league where we extrapolate single data points like they mean something and give meaning to a player being the first to score exactly 21 pts, 12 rbs, 6 asts while shooting 7/12 in March under a full moon.
