Adam Silver: “Yeah but Ernst & Young over-see everything”
Ernst & Young my ***.
Ernst & Young my ***.
Game Thread NBA Draft Lottery - May 12, 2025
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Not sure why you think there are 14 lottery balls.
Uhhh, he doesnt want a random odds event happening for betting? That sounds like exactly what betting wants.
Coach Ellis
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Looking at the NHL lottery, I actually think that’s a better lottery system now. Do it live and only two teams move up, with a maximum of 10 spots you can improve by. Worst teams still get the best odds for the top players and you don’t fall dramatically if the lottery luck goes elsewhere.
For a NBA owner, from an investment standpoint only, with the current revenue sharing model, they would want as high as ratings as possible, and ratings have been down. They want high ratings with the new tv deals. Flagg in Utah would not move ratings up at all.
Trading Luka to the Lakers for a sub-par return was already improbable and suspicious.
Dallas then getting THE star player in the ensuing draft is also improbable and suspicious.
So that's double improbable and suspicious, even if you don't believe in conspiracies.
Dallas then getting THE star player in the ensuing draft is also improbable and suspicious.
So that's double improbable and suspicious, even if you don't believe in conspiracies.
Sean
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I was a proponent of running it back for at least a couple seasons to see what we could get out of it. But everyone wanted to cut ties and maybe long-term, in a decade, we'll be better off for it. But right now? The Jazz are looking a lot like the Sacramento Kings circa 2007.
There's a chance that Ace is underwhelming and falls to 5.
Coach Ellis
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I don’t think the lottery is rigged, but I do think it’s a garbage system.
If a team is going to bottom out and tank, then the team really needs to do it for 3 or 4 years and spread their risk that picks won't pan out, regardless of which picks they get.
I think some picks are pre-set and others are random. Hence, the league can say that "picks are random" and claim plausible deniability.
Oh, so Orlando getting Penny, Shaq, Dwight, and Paolo are just happy coincidences, huh?
Tanktastic
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jom2003
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What they want is for their participants to believe that the odds are random so they are more willing to put their money on it. If everyone believe it's rigged and odds are not random people will not be as willing to participate and they will lose money. Like next year no one will put their money on us or Charlotte to win the lottery again cuz how bad it looked this year and that's money lost that they otherwise could've made.
Odd, I really expected an NBA GM to say the lottery was rigged. I’m out of ammo now.
Tanktastic
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Betting on the lottery order is probably like 0,000001 % compared to actual game betting.
Ok, but let's just say everyone buys into it being rigged. There where at least 3 teams you could make a "rigged" case for. I even heard people saying Utah was rigged cuz he's white. So people would still bet
Did anyone see how absolutely non-plussed Cooper was when the camera went to him? Lol
The Mavericks are still an absolute **** show. I guess they earned this since organizational incompetence seems to be what gets rewarded (unless you’re the Spurs).
The Mavericks are still an absolute **** show. I guess they earned this since organizational incompetence seems to be what gets rewarded (unless you’re the Spurs).
You can argue that getting Shaq and Penny back-to-back helped an entirely new franchise (from expansion) get off the ground.
There doesn't appear to be a clear rationale to rig the Paolo/Chet/Jabari draft, at least not a rationale that's obvious.