Was The Draft Fixed In Favor of Dallas?

[Wild Turkey]

Conspiracy theories are brewing so where do you stand?

 

[fordman84]

I have joked that the answer is yes, but the more and more I think about it I don't think it was a fix. Here is my thinking...Dallas won one play-in game and then lost the second. Had we won the second one we wouldn't have been in the lotto drawing, that's a little close to cut it if something was promised to Nico or Dumont. It isn't like the Mavs are afraid of announcing that we are tanking, we have done it before to end up with Lively. With the amount of injuries we had no one would have thought twice had we not brought AD, Lively, or Gafford back.

Now if the conspiracy is that the NBA told the Mavs FO to send Luka to LA for no return and "the next time you are in the lotto" they would give us the #1 pick then that makes a little more sense. But even at that point no FO is going to agree to that. They are giving up a generational player for the promise that some point in the future they will have the #1 pick? Most years there isn't a player like Flagg in the draft, so that would be too big of a gamble.

 

[fordman84]

I'm just SOOO Fucking glad the Spurs didn't end up with the #1 pick again. To me their success in the lottery is the fix. This is the first time Dallas has ever had the #1 pick, but in many fewer years the Spurs have had it 3 times when generational talents were on the board (Robinson, Duncan, Wemby).

 

[fordman84]

Heard a funny one today. Conspiracy is the new owners want to lose and piss off the fans so they can move to Vegas. the NBA however has wind of this and fixed the draft to put Flagg in Dallas to keep fans coming out.

 

[williewilliejuan]

The first question in any conspiracy is why. Why would the league want to stack the deck for the Mavericks? To compensate for sending an out of shape Slovenian to LA?

 

[PeoplesChicken]

Conspiracy theories are brewing so where do you stand?

Here is where I stand. the NBA sucks

 

[SU Nittany Tide]

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