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Hornets....the NBA owned team wins the lottery and gets the unanimous #1 pick in Anthony Davis. I don't see them letting Eric Gordon going anywhere. Wow. Conspiracy theory at hand?
Conspiracy: NBA Draft - Rigged?
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Hornets, owned by Mr. Stern and the NBA, somehow won the lottery and get the number 1 pick in the 2012 draft
Hornets, owned by Mr. Stern and the NBA, somehow won the lottery and get the number 1 pick in the 2012 draft
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jlove
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Next, they Hornets will somehow come up with money enough to get Deron Williams to go down to the Big Easy to lead that team.
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Hornets aren't gonna be owned by the league for long...the Saints owner is going to buy them shortly...
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Benson already owns them
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If the Hornets have already been sold, then it makes me wonder if Stern and Benson had a deal in place that if Benson bought the team, they'd get the #1 pick.
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The sky is blue, water is wet, the draft is rigged now and again...
The NBA is rigged?
Say it ain't so!
Say it ain't so!
The Hornets had a 13.7 percent chance of landing No. 1. That better than improbable or even unlikely. Now if the Suns had won, that might be a sign of it being rigged. (At gunpoint, very likely)
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All NBA teams have a representative in the room and the most prestigious, amazing audit firm on the planet supervises the proceedings/results -- I think it would be really hard to rig it.
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Cleveland loses Lebron and ends up with the first pick in the 2011 NBA draft. Coincidence?
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Now, that's funny!
I actually wasn't joking -- everyone talks about it being rigged, but curious how the NBA could actually pull that off with so many eyes on the process? I don't think I've ever heard a plausible explanation on how they could actually pull it off with certainty given the way the lottery process works.
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What I don't get is how there is supposed to be some element of chance in this whole thing, but sure enough, the Suns land at 13, exactly where they were supposed to. I understand the odds and all, bla bla bla. But still. Why is this called a lottery? It seems totally fixed.
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The lottery only determines the top 3 picks -- so most teams stay exactly where they are at or move down a spot or two. The Suns could have only been at picks 1, 2, 3 (all of which were extremely unlikely) 13, or 14 (which only would have happened in the even more unlikely event that the Rockets landed a top 3 pick). There was an astronomically high probability the Suns would stay at #13.
More concerned the woman isn't better looking in that picture. I expect more from a once-in-a-generation player.
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The sky is blue, water is wet, the NBA will be accused of rigging the draft now and again... I think there's a better chance that Martians secretly control our planet than the NBA draft being rigged but each to their own.
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Huh? None of the NBA teams are in the room where the ping pong balls are pulled. The representative from each team is in the main room where the public and TV hear the results. If there was a representative from each team where they pull the ping pong balls, then that's where the TV would show. Honestly, that's where they should pull the ping pong balls. In front of the country on TV like the real lotteries are done. That way, it would be easier to keep it honest and not rigged.
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They keep it honest and not rigged. The CIA and the NSA are geared towards keeping secrets and they frequently fail. What's the likelihood that an organization such as the NBA could pull this off? There would be proof and there would be leaks from inside personnel instead of speculation and wild internet rumors.
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I think it just looks rigged because the factors leading to that conclusion are, in fact, shady. Everything that happens is certainly possible, but with the NBA's other actions it just looks way too convenient.
But I'm not saying I'd be shocked if it were true...
But at least we know what the Suns strategy should be. Maybe Sarver can lose money, threaten to move the team to San Diego, not be allowed to by the league, which assumes control, then finally finds another buyer right after a trade of the team's best player and an amazing tank job.
But I'm not saying I'd be shocked if it were true...
But at least we know what the Suns strategy should be. Maybe Sarver can lose money, threaten to move the team to San Diego, not be allowed to by the league, which assumes control, then finally finds another buyer right after a trade of the team's best player and an amazing tank job.
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I'm sure there are reasons they do not televise the actual draft lottery and in my mind none of them are good. It gives question whether the lottery is rigged... right or wrong. The NBA should prepare a develop a methodology that can be televised.
Yes, there is in fact a representative in the room from the NBA teams and they are kept in their until the results are made public. They even have members of the media in there.
Here are two tweets from K.C. Johnson (Bulls Beat Writer) after yesterday's draft lottery.
He writes for the Tribune, not the team, so why would he lie?
