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If Lottery Rigging Exist, Aren't the Jazz Safe?

gomretat said:
If you believe the lottery is rigged, my guess is you would have to believe games are rigged. If either of those are true, why would you be a fan?
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I agree. However the answer is easy. We are fans of TV shows and movies and some weirdos are fans of WWE so the answer to your question would be entertainment I guess.
 
gomretat said:
If you believe the lottery is rigged, my guess is you would have to believe games are rigged. If either of those are true, why would you be a fan?
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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.
 
BENTLEY said:
I believe it’s rigged. Too much smoke, too many improbable odds + head scratching shenanigans/scandals over the decades. And then the draft is done behind closed doors, then a show is presented as if it’s happening live. Nah, cynical me sees corruption everywhere. Gambling is the latest. And in interviews Silver looks opaque & filtered rather than transparent. Conspiracy theories are theories, so I lack the proof necessary to convince anyone who prefers the everything is above board narrative. But too many anomalies over decades betrays my confidence.


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You realize that improbable events happen with regularity. With billions of human interactions and events happening each day, one-in-a-million events occur with regularity. When they happen to us, they seem too improbable and too random, and thus we often seek other explanations, such as conspiracies (or God's hand, but that's another topic).

A friend of mine was killed in a car collision. If she had left home 10 seconds later, or if the person hitting her had, or if thousands of other things had gone just a slight bit differently, she'd still be alive. That she was missing an ingredient to bake her pie, that she'd decide at that moment to run to the store to get it, that she'd be in her car, at that intersection, at the exact time the other vehicle ran a red light and slammed into her was a one in a million chance, but it happened. And low probability events like this happen with regularity. There's no reason behind it. No conspiracy. No greater purpose. Nobody up above pulling the strings. Just dumb, random luck.

Same thing with the NBA draft lottery: dumb random luck where low probability events occasionally happen, along with millions of other low probability events occurring more or less at the same time.

Life is random chance. The NBA lottery is part of life.
 
If the lottery is rigged the jazz are never safe the nba wants its biggest stars going to larger markets over Utah.
 
Max Porter said:
If the lottery is rigged the jazz are never safe the nba wants its biggest stars going to larger markets over Utah.
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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 Thunder are already a dynasty.
 
gomretat said:
If you believe the lottery is rigged, my guess is you would have to believe games are rigged. If either of those are true, why would you be a fan?
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I don't understand this premise. You can easily rig the lottery without the games. Much easier, I'd think.
 
Ok, so if we're going to throw out crazy junk:

- Have Ainge pay the refs to throw games in our opponents favor. This way he doesn't have to mess with Hardy and we still lose.
 
gomretat said:
If you believe the lottery is rigged, my guess is you would have to believe games are rigged. If either of those are true, why would you be a fan?
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Even if you believe only the lottery is rigged I’d question why you’d be a fan.
 
gomretat said:
If you believe the lottery is rigged, my guess is you would have to believe games are rigged. If either of those are true, why would you be a fan?
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I know, right? My ego is wedded to the Jazz and it’s sometimes pretty miserable. Like a bad relationship I hope for the fantasy, in spite of reality screaming at me. I’m delusional.


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