Game Thread NBA Draft Lottery - May 12, 2025

[Coach Ellis]

I don’t think the lottery is rigged, but I do think it’s a garbage system.

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

If a team is going to bottom out and tank, then the team really needs to do it for 3 or 4 years and spread their risk that picks won't pan out, regardless of which picks they get.

 

[NUMBERICA]

The Jazz have no choice but to draft the second coming of Jokic now: Danny Wolf.

(I’m 45% kidding)

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

I don’t think the lottery is rigged, but I do think it’s a garbage system.

I think some picks are pre-set and others are random. Hence, the league can say that "picks are random" and claim plausible deniability.

 

[jazznik]

Cleveland and New Orleans were situations where the local team was in meltdown and needed immediate help.
San Antonio was allegedly a preferred destination by Wembanyama's camp.
The Orlando pick probably wasn't rigged.

Oh, so Orlando getting Penny, Shaq, Dwight, and Paolo are just happy coincidences, huh?

 

[Tanktastic]

Not sure why you think there are 14 lottery balls.

Because there are 14 lottery balls.

Maybe educate yourself.

 

[jom2003]

Uhhh, he doesnt want a random odds event happening for betting? That sounds like exactly what betting wants.

What they want is for their participants to believe that the odds are random so they are more willing to put their money on it. If everyone believe it's rigged and odds are not random people will not be as willing to participate and they will lose money. Like next year no one will put their money on us or Charlotte to win the lottery again cuz how bad it looked this year and that's money lost that they otherwise could've made.

 

[Bodhi]

View: https://twitter.com/andyblarsen/status/1922082135730536615

Odd, I really expected an NBA GM to say the lottery was rigged. I’m out of ammo now.

 

[Tanktastic]

Like next year no one will put their money on us or Charlotte to win the lottery again cuz how bad it looked this year and that's money lost that they otherwise could've made.

Betting on the lottery order is probably like 0,000001 % compared to actual game betting.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

What they want is for their participants to believe that the odds are random so they are more willing to put their money on it. If everyone believe it's rigged and odds are not random people will not be as willing to participate and they will lose money. Like next year no one will put their money on us or Charlotte to win the lottery again cuz how bad it looked this year and that's money lost that they otherwise could've made.

Ok, but let's just say everyone buys into it being rigged. There where at least 3 teams you could make a "rigged" case for. I even heard people saying Utah was rigged cuz he's white. So people would still bet

 

[NUMBERICA]

Did anyone see how absolutely non-plussed Cooper was when the camera went to him? Lol

The Mavericks are still an absolute **** show. I guess they earned this since organizational incompetence seems to be what gets rewarded (unless you’re the Spurs).

 

[Ferguson_Mellochill]

Oh, so Orlando getting Penny, Shaq, Dwight, and Paolo are just happy coincidences, huh?

You can argue that getting Shaq and Penny back-to-back helped an entirely new franchise (from expansion) get off the ground.

There doesn't appear to be a clear rationale to rig the Paolo/Chet/Jabari draft, at least not a rationale that's obvious.