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Is the NBA lottery rigged?

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Anyone who actually believes these rigging rhetoric is an idiot.

Ernest & Young certifies companies procedures that are worth more than every NBA team combined. Their reputation is worth billions. They certify the lottery.

Do you also believe the sky is blue because we live in the eye of a giant?
 
If the lottery was rigged, would the 13 other team owners that did not win just keep quiet? Would the billionaire in Brooklyn have not figured out who to pay to make the Nets a winner thru the lottery instead of paying millions in luxury tax payments?

I think this will give Silver the ammo he needs to overhaul the lottery though. Most of the lottery teams were outright tanking last year, making for a horrible product out on the court. One team should get the #1 pick once every 30 years, not four times in the last eleven.
 
I actually think all 30 teams should be in the lottery with equal chances of winning. I'm sick of seeing teams being rewarded for losing and incompetent management. Some of these organizations are in the lottery year, after year, after year and still suck. Make it totally random. 30 teams = 30 envelopes (or ping pong balls, or whatever). Don't reward teams for losing and putting a shitty product on the court.

Fuck parity. Want to get better? Hire better GMs and better scouts. Make better decisions. Don't lose on purpose to increase your luck at getting a top pick only to blow it because your GM and scouting department suck.

BNM
 
Obviously rigged. The odds of Cleveland getting the 1st pick in the 3 of the last 4 years is about 1 in 8 million.
 
I think they've probably made up for LeBron's departure enough by now though.
 
Didn't you guys know the NBA traded three first picks for LeBron?
 
Eastoff said:
Boston and the Lakers are the only big market teams, and they both dropped a spot in pick order. No, I don't think it's rigged.

PS HOORAY for not much to worry about in the West from the lottery.
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Its called parity Boston and LA will continue to be super popular even if they are bad, plus both markets can attract marquee free agents. Cleveland cannot, however, they can provide an interesting story next year facing Lebron and the Heat with Irving, Parker and say someone like Kevin Love. That team would get some serious primetime exposure and would make for a very intriguing matchup with Miami.

Plus had the Lakers won this year do you honestly think anyone would ever believe the lottery was not fixed again?
 
Schilly said:
You reading skills are lacking. The shit storm I mentioned would be wall street related when one of their biggest players, the investment firm, gets caught up in fraud.

Also to assume the fact a referee that was busted for fixing games, he was gambling on personally BTW, was doing so with league approval or directive is flat out asinine.
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Go watch game 6 2001 King Lakers again, or the 4th quarter game 7 Blazers Lakers from 2000.
 
cmeese47 said:
Its called parity Boston and LA will continue to be super popular even if they are bad, plus both markets can attract marquee free agents. Cleveland cannot, however, they can provide an interesting story next year facing Lebron and the Heat with Irving, Parker and say someone like Kevin Love. That team would get some serious primetime exposure and would make for a very intriguing matchup with Miami.

Plus had the Lakers won this year do you honestly think anyone would ever believe the lottery was not fixed again?
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I dont remember Boston being popular at all for several years before they traded for Garnett and Allen.
 
cmeese47 said:
Go watch game 6 2001 King Lakers again, or the 4th quarter game 7 Blazers Lakers from 2000.
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Aren't those 2 examples contradictory to your point? In both cases based on your perception the Lakers benefited from the fix. If that was evidence then a much easier fix to the lottery would be a team with the 6th best odds an adding but effective superstar and boat loads of cap space would make a whole lot more sense than trying to build a Lebron rivalry with the city of Cleveland.
 
Mediocre Man said:
I dont remember Boston being popular at all for several years before they traded for Garnett and Allen.
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Shit, several years? I don't think they had been popular for over a decade. Nobody gave a shit about the Walker/Pierce teams.
 
This year's lottery was rigged to give Cleveland the number one pick so we could watch them shoot themselves in the foot again, and laugh our asses off. That Adam Silver, what a sense of humor! :)
 
Natebishop3 said:
Shit, several years? I don't think they had been popular for over a decade. Nobody gave a shit about the Walker/Pierce teams.
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Funny thing about those crappy Celtics teams they continued to be in the top group of merchandise movers. They also never lost money despite being so bad.
 
Natebishop3 said:
Shit, several years? I don't think they had been popular for over a decade. Nobody gave a shit about the Walker/Pierce teams.
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Those Walker Pierce teams sold a lot of merchandise. Walker had a line of Adidas shoes. Amazing for what a fat crappy player he was.
 
Blazers must win every year for it not to be fixed...
wait the blazers weren't in the lotto this year? shit.. well they should have won anyways. Paul Allen has deep pockets.
 
honkicracker said:
Blazers must win every year for it not to be fixed...
wait the blazers weren't in the lotto this year? shit.. well they should have won anyways. Paul Allen has deep pockets.
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Rep'd for your quote! Awesome!
 
cmeese47 said:
I believe the NBA is desperate to help the Cavs build a contender so that they can better market Kyrie Irving. So much so that they staged them winning the lottery for the 3rd time in 4 years. While this might be good news for people in Cleveland or us if they want to revisit the LA deal, I think it is another sign that nothing has changed from Stern to Silver.

Thoughts?
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I don't believe it's rigged. If it was, I don't think it would be that obvious. Secondly, if it was rigged it would be rigged more to the LA's and such. Thirdly, why would Cleveland of all markets be a priority?
 
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There might need to be a rule in place that says you can't so many times in a five or ten year period. Or no more than two years in a row.
 
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OneLifeToLive said:
There might need to be a rule in place that says you can't so many times in a five or ten year period. Or no more than two years in a row.
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The system is fine. The lottery is reserved for crap teams and the Cavs are definitely that. Perhaps they'll pick a player with more impact this time around.
 
I think the NBA Lottery is the real head of al qaeda, Bin Laden was just a puppet.
 
Draco said:
Those Walker Pierce teams sold a lot of merchandise. Walker had a line of Adidas shoes. Amazing for what a fat crappy player he was.
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walker was traded for kevin love
 
Hobbesarable said:
The system is fine. The lottery is reserved for crap teams and the Cavs are definitely that. Perhaps they'll pick a player with more impact this time around.
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I don't like it at all. The luck factor is stupid. Go to the wheel so there is zero incentive to lose. Or just make all rookies free agents so only teams under the cap can sign them. If you have cap space and can't attract vets you can snag stud rookie prospects.
 
Draco said:
Or just make all rookies free agents so only teams under the cap can sign them. If you have cap space and can't attract vets you can snag stud rookie prospects.
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This could be interesting, but do we really want see rookies getting $100M deals?

I like what someone suggested about using a 3-year record to determine draft order.

I also liked the idea of a 4-day, 16 team post-season one-and-done tournament with the bottom 8 teams in each conference, with the winners of each bracket getting both the 8 seeds, and the overall winner getting the #1 pick.
 
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