Game Thread NBA Draft Lottery - May 12, 2025
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An exciting player just got sent to one of the biggest TV markets in the NBA. The ratings will improve lmao
Just put it this way: If you were in charge of a $100 billion global media product like the NBA, what would you do? How would you allow league-altering draft prospects to be handed out?
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I honestly wouldnt care all that much. Flagg could go anywhere and its going to be good for the NBA. It's not rigged. It's just a stupid system.
Thank you for mentioning this.
Flattening the odds is not, has not, and never will be the answer to anything. The answer is creating a system with clear rules that prevents tanking and teams from amassing hoards of top picks. The lottery has objectively failed.
Tanktastic
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Put it this way: You want to rig the lottery so you invite dozens of independent journalists from all possible media outlets to personally witness the lottery taking place.
And I'm willing to bet very few of you even have the faintest idea how the lottery actually works, and envision some frozen envelopes.
stormkoopacv03
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This is complete bs. I knew it was going to happen, but remained hopeful. It hurts when you already know its not going to end well.
George W
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biggest lol of the thread for me. every time I think of Cody Williams it's an instant laugh
- George
Dallas falling completely apart while fans riot and yell "Fire Nico!" on national TV is a bad look for the league. Something needed to be done. The league needs to protect its image and the value of its franchises. That's enough rationale to throw them a bone.
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Especially considering it's pretty obvious the league will make sure someone else gets ahead when the jazz seem to have a chance at anything like this. Without late lottery or late first-round luck we won't get anywhere. That's frankly all we've ever had. Stockton and Malone both were #13 picks. Mitchell was too. Gobert was 27. Those were all cases of luck over providence. Until we get another luck over providence pick we'll be at the bottom of the barrel. The league showed today that we won't be allowed at the top. Maybe if we have a shot in a draft without such a clear-cut generational talent we'll be allowed #2 or something. But otherwise it's all the luck of how we draft. We can't afford to be the team that drafts so poorly as we have in the past if we want to be able to compete. No more picks like Trey or Kanter or DedEx. We have to hit it out of the park. But realistically it's to the league's overall advantage for anyone but the Jazz to win it all. We don't bring them more money, almost literally every other team with a deep playoff run will bring in more money for the league. I think they realized that for real after our back to back finals runs. So that's it, for the league to make the most money possible we are always going to draw the short straw.
Shad
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The last 3 years have been the worse Jazz basketball I've ever seen in 30 years. The Jefferson/Corbin era was rough but this takes the cake by far. We started tanking 2 years later for whatever reason. We re-signed players because our owner liked them. Are we really going to sit Kessler, Sexton, Lauri, and Clarkson again for most of the season?
.... and then to do what? Pay Kessler 30 million a year for a team that's dead last in defense every year? There is no way you sign Kessler for 30 million when we're going to be bottom 5 again
.... and then to do what? Pay Kessler 30 million a year for a team that's dead last in defense every year? There is no way you sign Kessler for 30 million when we're going to be bottom 5 again