Recent content by Ferguson_Mellochill

Svi was 1-8 and -24 in 19 minutes. Are the Jazz certain they can't get that type of production from somebody else?

My point is, I wonder what the Jazz see that the other 7 teams didn't.

Jazz are can-tank-erous.

The NBA is a sports entertainment enterprise. They never promised a completely and objectively fair sport. Their job is to make money for the owners and stakeholders, including the media companies that pay billions for the broadcast rights. The name of the game is to win interest from the casual...

See what the ratings in the NBA Finals look like when OKC is a prohibitive favorite for the next 3+ years. See how much interest in the league there is from casual fans if there aren't other superstar players in a position to contend for the Finals.

Because that's part of the challenge of developing a championship team. It's part of the game.

Jazz are the 8th team that Svi has played for.

Svi isn't gun shy.

Naw, Jazz just need to lose a lot of games. They don't need to completely embarrass themselves

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The problem with Utah is that the fans support the team no matter how bad the team is. This doesn't create an incentive to boost the Jazz in the lottery. However, this year could be the exception. Like the OP says, it's not about helping the Jazz, it's about not helping the Thunder when the...

Your guess is a logical fallacy and is wrong in my case. The draft lottery is controlled by a single machine. Whereas, the outcomes of games have enough different variables that the outcome can only be influenced, rather than set.

Below is what I said last March in this thread --- https://jazzfanz.com/threads/is-the-nba-draft-lottery-rigged.226042/page-2#post-2514648 I just didn't think the league would be so brazen as to send Cooper Flagg to Dallas. If you're the league, did you want the Thunder to add Derik Queen...

I went on record last year re: the Sixers. I'll go on record this year as well. The league has a vested interest in not giving the Thunder another top-10 pick when they're far-and-away the best team in the league and they're already going to receive the Clippers pick in the top 10.

There's a backstory to some of those lottery outcomes you've mentioned. For example, Lebron moved from Cleveland to LA, the NBA's #1 media market. That's a win-win for the league and for Lebron potentially. However, the Lakers' team isn't well put together and misses the playoffs in Lebron's...