Game Thread NBA Draft Lottery - May 12, 2025

[Thee Idiotic Minivan K]

How do we even get out of being completely **** for the next 5+ years? Honestly? We're apparently going into year 4 of Ryan Smith's plan to get the Jazz's championship......

The actual garbage teams of the Jazz, Wizards, Hornets, and the Nets will all be taking dumps every game again next season.

NAH, I think teams are gonna start realizing that you don’t necessarily want to be a top four team in the lottery

 

[Miggs]

We are still getting VJ at 5. Hornets don't really need him.

Of course we are. He went to Baylor. Lindsey probably intervened with us getting #1 just so we could take on another Waco ********.

 

[Bawse Dawg]

Locke and his ******** garbage *** AI song

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Is it worth moving up from 5 to 3?

I don't think so. I think Ace, Tre and VJ are essentially the same tier, unless one of them is amazeballs in the pre-draft process.

 

[Miggs]

How good are the top 2-4 players next season?

 

[Thee Idiotic Minivan K]

we'll get whoever is the worst fit for our franchise. bet on it

Tre is the player the Jazz seem to gravitate too. They love drafting scorers and Tre of the top 5 prospects is the top scorer of the bunch.

 

[jom2003]

And you know it's not the market. The league just has a list of teams they really like. Where is San Antonio? First Wemby and now 2nd pick. It's not like people are lining up to buy their merch or tickets.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

The Jazz will be in Vegas by 2028.

Nah. The community loves the Jazz and the Smiths can monetize both the basketball and hockey franchises with the same investments.

 

[Thee Idiotic Minivan K]

Any chance the Hornets are dumb enough to take Trey over Edgecomb?

 

[Rubashov]

This **** is fixed!!!

 

[LogGrad98]

Oh, so San Antonio became a new Cleveland for conspiracy theorists as a small market team that the NBA is hellbent on flooding with rigged top picks?

You are obviously way behind on this conversation. Feel free to search for it and catch yourself up. Basically you're wrong on every part of it.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

And you know it's not the market. The league just has a list of teams they really like. Where is San Antonio? First Wemby and now 2nd pick. It's not like people are lining up to buy their merch or tickets.

San Antonio has moved up 3 drafts in a row.

 

[Bawse Dawg]

This is a hockey town now

 

[baka98]

don't forget, san antonio needs the picks because what if wemby has to retire with the blood clot issue?

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

Jazz

Any chance the Hornets are dumb enough to take Trey over Edgecomb?

They would be smart to imo, but the allure of fit of VJ might be enough to make them make a bad choice.

 

[LogGrad98]

Thanks a lot. It’s all your fault!

I already blamed it all on the Mormons and on @Thee Idiotic Minivan K .

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Any chance the Hornets are dumb enough to take Trey over Edgecomb?

They're invested in Brandon Miller at the 2, who is the off-ball, secondary scorer archetype.

 

[TheGoldStandard]

San Antonio has moved up 3 drafts in a row.

Until they do the draft in front of the cameras, I'll continue to think it is rigged. The Luka trade was too suspect, which is why I, along with many others, believed they'd be rewarded in the lottery. The Spurs must have some damn good blackmail evidence against Adam Silver as no team is that "lucky".

A good Wemby team inflates ratings on the major markets. With the new tv deal, the NBA has a lot of pressure to have high rating games. It is a business, and all about the $$$.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Mavs fans on RealGM think the draft lottery is rigged.

 

[Goodluckchuck]

I feel like I’m being forced at gun point to believe in conspiracy theories. What else can explain the “coincidence” that the last two teams to trade their franchise player to the Lakers receive the #1 pick?

And what kompromat do the Spurs have on the league? This defies any reasonable explanation. Conspiracy is the most reasonable explanation. I feel deeply violated.

We all questioned why Dallas traded Luka for a hurt AD. And didn't get any picks or anything else for him. Well we know now. The sad part is the NBA isn't even trying to hide it. Takes major cojones to allow such a lopsided trade to happen, but to then give them the #1 pick because of it and make it look so innocently fair .