The Bulls will get a high lottery pick because Silver is tired of the 3rd largest market being a poverty franchise

Spurs somehow move up in the lottery again despite not even being in it and get a top 2 pick.

Nope. I’m going to wait until I see the results, construct a narrative, and that way any outcome will be a conspiracy, thank you. 

And with the first pick, the Oklahoma City Thunder select AJ Dybantsa. From BYU

Simple, if the Pacers keep their pick it’s not rigged. If they do lose the pick… Adam silver is engaged in a sexual relationship with Steve ballmer, those are 100% the only two possibilities in that situation

Utah’s gonna get as low of a pick as possible without being suspicious because they were the main reason for the new lottery rules and yet managed to avoid being really punished because they ended up being the fourth worst team and the rules really punish the worst three.

Heat will be rewarded with a top four pick for never intentionally sucking 😎 and non of the jazz, wizards, nets will get a top 3

I just keep hoping people stop discussing the draft is rigged which differs yearly based on one’s favorite team. “Of COURSE they’d give it to X we can’t have a BIG MARKET bad for THIS long!”

Give me a break it’s random point pong balls which are viewed by media and team reps.

• Washington - Lowest attendance in league needs a boost
• Indiana - League wants to sell Haliburton as next big star
• Brooklyn - Big market
• Utah - Jazz owner already paying AJ Dybantsa to go to to BYU and get him used to Utah or Cam Boozer gets drafted where he was born
• Sacramento - NBA is trying to prove lottery is not rigged
• Memphis - NBA is trying to prove lottery is not rigged
• Atlanta (via New Orleans) - Compensation for cancelling Magic City night
• Dallas - Continued payment for Luka trade
• Chicago - Cam Boozer joins dad’s old team
• Milwaukee - Consolation prize to help Bucks trade Giannis
• Golden State - Help Warriors be relevant in Curry’s twilight years for ratings
• Oklahoma City (via Clippers) - League wants dynasties
• Miami - Reward for not tanking
• Charlotte - Push everyone’s new favorite team
• Clippers (if they get Indiana’s pick) - League finds Clippers innocent of cap circumvention and gives them a pick as apologies for the inconvenience

I don’t think this means anything is rigged, but I feel it in my bones that the Thunder are going to get a top 4 pick from the Clips.

If I was forced to conjure up conspiracy it’s that the Mavs will get another #1 pick as further compensation for sending Luka to the Lakers.

The top 4 will be in some order, Washington, New Orleans, Dallas, Milwaukee

Atlanta helped San Antonio rebuild with the Murray trade and have been getting rewarded since then. I expect them to move into the top 4 easily.

Washington is being helpful with the Atlanta process, so they won’t get stuck with the worst possible pick.

Dallas will most likely move up. It depends on whether the Luka compensation was fulfilled by last year. It’s hard to say and with Luka getting hurt they may have lost their conspiracy benefits. I could see them being booted for someone like Indiana, Brooklyn, or Chicago.

Milwaukee will be trading Giannis somewhere and they have probably worked this out already with backroom draft compensation ACTUALLY being the key acquisition when they trade Giannis for a really lame return. New Orleans moving up as well is important since they(Atlanta) have Milwaukee swap rights.

Also, WWE is rigged and everyone knows it. That doesn’t mean it’s 100 percent predictable. I don’t think you’ll prove much when most of the conspiracy theories aren’t completely accurate.

Bulls will get nothing good as always

Warriors will get a high pick due to their popularity and value

Hawks get 1 and Bucks get 2

Pacers keep their pick and get either Dybantsa or Boozer because them vs OKC and the Haliburton narrative was great for the league

Utah’s getting the 1st overall pick to get AJ Dybantsa from BYU. Same as Lebron to the Cavs in 2003, D-Rose to the Bulls in 2009, now it’s his turn.

The league has to punish the Clippers. When they do it will be massively impactful to that secondary LA market and the richest owner in sports. Them getting that pick would be a huge save across the board and more importantly help the bottom line. Sorta like a version of Dallas and Flagg. Lucky for us the lottery is out of his hands. Right guys? Right?

People acting like the lottery isn’t rigged and saying it would be impossible to keep people quiet is so funny. As if we aren’t still in the middle of a finding out how many famous and rich people were on an island doing vile things for years and years and years. The damn CIA killed a president and we didn’t know about it till recently. Your head is buried in the sand, the rich dug you the hole.

Miami wins to compensate for the rozier thing. Indy ends up at 4 for shameless tanking, but also so the NBA doesn’t reward the clippers. Golden State rises to 5. Brooklyn/Washington finish out the top 5

Utah is getting the #1 pick for AJ Dybantsa or Cam Boozer. The hand picked player that Danny Ainge and Ryan Smith paid to go to BYU or the son of Carlos Boozer who now works in the scouting department for the Jazz.

Why else would Utah help Dallas and LA in the Luka trade? They took on Jalen Hood-Schifino’s contract to keep Dallas under the luxury tax after the trade.

We agreed to that in exchange for dropping to #5 last year because we wanted a guarantee that we’d get either AJ or Cam Boozer this year.

Mavs are getting a top 3 pick

The Pacers played the clippers and Adam Silver with that Top 4 protection. No way Silver can give the clippers a high lottery pick with the impending aspiration punishment. Looks way too fishy. Pacers get Zubac AND keep their pick.

Milwaukee will end up in the top 3. We see this time after time with teams that either lost their stars or are close to losing them.

Pacers get #1. Heat and Warriors move up as reward for competing in the play in and being big markets. Dallas also moves up to compensate for Luka trade

Warriors will get the #1 pick. Mavs the #2.

Utah is getting the lowest pick possible.

Either GS or Miami jumps into the Top 4.

The Nets will get the #1 pick in order to revitalize a large-market team. It will not seem suspicious because they have the highest possible odds anyway (14%)

The top 5 picks in no particular order will be OKC, Mavs, Kings, Heat, and Wizards. I would explain the reasoning but the tin foil is wrapped so tightly on my head that I can barely form cohesive thoughts

Oklahoma City will receive the #1 overall pick so that the NBA can prove the draft isn’t rigged.

You only need fourteen different responses that choose a different team each to win the lottery and one of them will be “correct”

This draft will be completely clean because the last one was rigged.

They don’t rig every year (it’s too obvious) so they only rig when they feel that they need to.

So I’d expect some random team to jump up, proving the lottery isn’t “rigged” to people with poor thinking skills.

We land a top 4 pick 😏

The kings sub kinda have this conspiracy that we’re getting the number 1 pick because 8 of the 10 Christmas teams’ jerseys were leaked and one of them was the kings for some reason?

Now, why would the kings be getting a Christmas jersey? #1 pick baby

The Warriors get a top-3 pick as a reward for not tanking when everyone got injured.

Hawks get #1 because they forced Mike Brown to finally make the adjustment and make the Knicks the favorite in the East.

Pacers will keep their pick. League benefits more from Hali having a new elite prospect running mate than the clippers (who may trade kawhi) having a guy to build around.

Heat and warriors are moving up and will both end up top 5 picks

Warriors to get a top 4 pick to prolong the Stephuation

Grizzlies and Bucks move into top 4. Pacers pick goes to the Clippers

DAL - if the Mavs get another top 4, it’s the final part of the Luka trade.

GSW - If GSW gets a top 4, it’s rigged to give Curry a shot at one last run at the playoffs.

LAC - they award LAC the Indy 1st so that the NBA can then include it in the upcoming aspiration penalty to make the penalty seem more harsh, while also being able to reduce the rest of the penalty. Effectively they are penalized Zubac and a future first. But this way it’s framed as the #6 and another first, which seems a lot more harsh

My draft conspiracy is that there’s no potential generational player in this draft so they’ll just run the lotto fairly and whatever happens happens. They don’t rig every one. Just the major ones like Ewing to the Knicks, Bron to his hometown team, Davis to the team that gave LA a superstar, Zion to the team that gave LA a superstar, and Flag to the team that gave LA a superstar.

Essentially for the ones over the last 15 years, I think there are backroom deals between cheap owners that don’t want to pay superstar players the supermax and the league where they’ll trade away their supermax eligible player to a major market like LA and in return receive a reset of the next big thing to keep their ticket sales and fan base interested. Chris Paul for Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis for Zion. Luka for Flagg.

Mavericks will win the number one pick and that will justify the new rule changes.

Kings finally get no1 pick. This proves lotto is not rigged

Sam Presti has irrefutable proof of Adam Silver being a robot controlled by a little alien in the head, like MIB. 

So OKC will get a top 5 pick. 

The heat or warriors will jump up to give them enough ammo for a Giannis trade

Jazz, Bulls, Hornets get top 3

The Jazz will move up in the lottery for the 1st time ever to select the guy who seems willing to live in Utah

Kings are gonna drop because the league doesn’t want any of the big 3 to join a franchise that isn’t mainstream or competitive

Can we genuinely talk about how rigging the NBA lottery is next to impossible? 

Spurs had a 1.8% chance to get Wemby, but a fun mathematical fact is that 1.8 is not 0.0. 

The lottery is also overseen by a group of mutant third-party lawyers as well as a grouping of journalists. 

Nah. Wemby not being on the Knicks is exactly why the draft isn’t very rigged. The guys and gals running the NBA obviously don’t care about money or making the best decisions for the league. They’re on some parity bs

last year i said there were three teams that i specifically did not want to see jump: sixers, rockets, and spurs

the sixers and spurs both jumped which confirmed to me that im cursed. this year the three times that i dont want to see jump are: thunder, warriors, and mavs

therefore, at least one of the thunder, warriors, or mavs will jump

Did people not call the Mavs first pick immediately after trade news broke?