Lipoli390 wrote: ↑Tue May 13, 2025 6:08 pm
Quote from ESPN report on last night’s lottery:
Sources told ESPN that Patrick Dumont, who just finished his first year as the Mavs' governor, considers the opportunity to be in position to draft a generational talent such as Flagg a "gift." While Dumont has given Harrison great leeway to run basketball operations, the governor has final decision on all personnel matters.
I don’t know anything about Patrick Dumont, but he’s spot on calling it a gift. Question is — a gift from whom? Was it God or Adam Silver? Hmm.
Lol, no question this was a big "gift" for the Mavs! I'm not going to speculate on the source of the gift, but I will throw out one fact about Adam Silver. Even though he grew up in NY, his college roommate at Duke said Adam never missed an episode of Dallas every Friday night .
Ah. The plot thickens. And of course, JFK was killed in Dallas. I’ll let you connect the rest of the dots. . But I do have a hard time believing that the Mavs’ lottery gift last night was mere providence. And then there was the Mavs’ inexplicable failure to shop Luka before making an obviously one-sided trade in favor or the Lakers.
How many teams have jumped from 1.7% to number 1 pick? I can think of at least 3 times that has happened in the 40 years of the draft. The great thing about conspiracy theories is that the human mind can twist and shape any fact to fit any narrative. Gotta love the way the NBA does the lottery. How long before the NFL had their own to add another prime time event out of season for more TV money?
DNatagal wrote: ↑Wed May 14, 2025 9:54 am
How many teams have jumped from 1.7% to number 1 pick? I can think of at least 3 times that has happened in the 40 years of the draft. The great thing about conspiracy theories is that the human mind can twist and shape any fact to fit any narrative. Gotta love the way the NBA does the lottery. How long before the NFL had their own to add another prime time event out of season for more TV money?
They could squash most of the theories if it was transparent. They use to have ping pong balls supposedly live, which was better. There are ways to rig that, prefilm it, have the machines somehow rigged. Etc..
Anytime something is completely secret, how can anyone trust the process? It's just too easy to make money and rig it. They don't want the Wizards or some other bottom feeder to have Coop. It's better TV to have Dallas have him. Easy money.
Now I didn't watch the process so I am assuming they didn't have a live in person audience with say 20 thousand people with ping pong balls. I would trust that process quite a bit. You could even have 6 machines for team names then a 7th that picks a number 1-6.
DNatagal wrote: ↑Wed May 14, 2025 9:54 am
How many teams have jumped from 1.7% to number 1 pick? I can think of at least 3 times that has happened in the 40 years of the draft. The great thing about conspiracy theories is that the human mind can twist and shape any fact to fit any narrative. Gotta love the way the NBA does the lottery. How long before the NFL had their own to add another prime time event out of season for more TV money?
They could squash most of the theories if it was transparent. They use to have ping pong balls supposedly live, which was better. There are ways to rig that, prefilm it, have the machines somehow rigged. Etc..
Anytime something is completely secret, how can anyone trust the process? It's just too easy to make money and rig it. They don't want the Wizards or some other bottom feeder to have Coop. It's better TV to have Dallas have him. Easy money.
Now I didn't watch the process so I am assuming they didn't have a live in person audience with say 20 thousand people with ping pong balls. I would trust that process quite a bit. You could even have 6 machines for team names then a 7th that picks a number 1-6.
FNG just wrote a pretty thoughtful post on the process as he literally has inside knowledge. Did you even bother to read it?
I think it's cool we actually have someone on this board that used to work for the audit firm that oversees the lottery and was willing to take the time to write about it here.
DNatagal wrote: ↑Wed May 14, 2025 9:54 am
How many teams have jumped from 1.7% to number 1 pick? I can think of at least 3 times that has happened in the 40 years of the draft. The great thing about conspiracy theories is that the human mind can twist and shape any fact to fit any narrative. Gotta love the way the NBA does the lottery. How long before the NFL had their own to add another prime time event out of season for more TV money?
They could squash most of the theories if it was transparent. They use to have ping pong balls supposedly live, which was better. There are ways to rig that, prefilm it, have the machines somehow rigged. Etc..
Anytime something is completely secret, how can anyone trust the process? It's just too easy to make money and rig it. They don't want the Wizards or some other bottom feeder to have Coop. It's better TV to have Dallas have him. Easy money.
Now I didn't watch the process so I am assuming they didn't have a live in person audience with say 20 thousand people with ping pong balls. I would trust that process quite a bit. You could even have 6 machines for team names then a 7th that picks a number 1-6.
FNG just wrote a pretty thoughtful post on the process as he literally has inside knowledge. Did you even bother to read it?
I think it's cool we actually have someone on this board that used to work for the audit firm that oversees the lottery and was willing to take the time to write about it here.
BULLSHIT!
The 4th most prominent brand color for the Dallas Mavericks is SILVER. This is fact. How can you not see the connection?
Yet here we have Q putting his head further in the sand (or another unspeakable place) instead. Shame.
DNatagal wrote: ↑Wed May 14, 2025 9:54 am
How many teams have jumped from 1.7% to number 1 pick? I can think of at least 3 times that has happened in the 40 years of the draft. The great thing about conspiracy theories is that the human mind can twist and shape any fact to fit any narrative. Gotta love the way the NBA does the lottery. How long before the NFL had their own to add another prime time event out of season for more TV money?
They could squash most of the theories if it was transparent. They use to have ping pong balls supposedly live, which was better. There are ways to rig that, prefilm it, have the machines somehow rigged. Etc..
Anytime something is completely secret, how can anyone trust the process? It's just too easy to make money and rig it. They don't want the Wizards or some other bottom feeder to have Coop. It's better TV to have Dallas have him. Easy money.
Now I didn't watch the process so I am assuming they didn't have a live in person audience with say 20 thousand people with ping pong balls. I would trust that process quite a bit. You could even have 6 machines for team names then a 7th that picks a number 1-6.
FNG just wrote a pretty thoughtful post on the process as he literally has inside knowledge. Did you even bother to read it?
I think it's cool we actually have someone on this board that used to work for the audit firm that oversees the lottery and was willing to take the time to write about it here.
I did after and his word is trustworthy. However, He didn't really say how directly he was involved either. It's easy to have friends/co-workers and think that they would do no harm. A little cash bundle in an envelope can make people do things.
Now I'm not saying I think it's rigged or not. IDK. I'm just saying they could have a live in person audience and it would be difficult to rig it, if they TRULY wanted it to be transparent. I don't think they do!!!
They could squash most of the theories if it was transparent. They use to have ping pong balls supposedly live, which was better. There are ways to rig that, prefilm it, have the machines somehow rigged. Etc..
Anytime something is completely secret, how can anyone trust the process? It's just too easy to make money and rig it. They don't want the Wizards or some other bottom feeder to have Coop. It's better TV to have Dallas have him. Easy money.
Now I didn't watch the process so I am assuming they didn't have a live in person audience with say 20 thousand people with ping pong balls. I would trust that process quite a bit. You could even have 6 machines for team names then a 7th that picks a number 1-6.
FNG just wrote a pretty thoughtful post on the process as he literally has inside knowledge. Did you even bother to read it?
I think it's cool we actually have someone on this board that used to work for the audit firm that oversees the lottery and was willing to take the time to write about it here.
BULLSHIT!
The 4th most prominent brand color for the Dallas Mavericks is SILVER. This is fact. How can you not see the connection?
Yet here we have Q putting his head further in the sand (or another unspeakable place) instead. Shame.
FNG if you need help for a possible imposter syndrome after realizations from this thread I know if some good trainings on LinkedIn.
Eurovision is happening this weekend and there are folks that have questioned whether or not that event is rigged even though they have a process run by a firm with various protocols like FNG talked about. Could someone be compromised? Sure. Eurovision there is less at stake than the NBA draft in a year teams can win Cooper Flag but it's interesting to compare when both events have chatter about them having some possibility of some level of being fixed.
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. But I do have a hard time believing that the Mavs’ lottery gift last night was mere providence. And then there was the Mavs’ inexplicable failure to shop Luka before making an obviously one-sided trade in favor or the Lakers.
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