The Rigged NBA Draft Lottery?

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The NBA Draft Lottery for 2025 has delivered shocking results with the Dallas Mavericks securing the number one pick for Cooper Flagg despite having extremely low odds compared to teams like the Washington Wizards who finished at the bottom for consecutive years. This outcome follows a suspicious pattern where teams receive top picks after significant player movements, raising serious questions about whether the lottery system is truly random or rigged to create marketable storylines.

• Historical pattern shows teams getting first picks after star trades (Cavs after LeBron left, Pelicans after AD left)
• Washington Wizards remained second-worst team for consecutive years yet couldn't secure the top pick
• Dallas Mavericks were merely injured last season, not truly one of the league's worst teams
• Cooper Flagg in Washington could have been marketed as "The American Flagg"
• Pairing Flagg with Luka and Kyrie creates immediate storylines and marketability
• Ernst & Young's auditing process now under scrutiny from skeptical fans
• Spurs secured second pick despite seven teams having worse records

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Like I said, we're going totalk about the 2025 NBA Draft
Lottery recap.
It's a good one.
I'm not going to lie to y'all.
We have a lot of things to talkabout, but, most specifically,
this is the first time where Iactually can say the NBA gave
off its rigged vibes to me likelegitimately rigged vibes, and

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it's quite disgusting reason whyI say this.
The dallas mavericks won thedraft.
Congratulations to themavericks.
By the way, you know, I'msaying this is a wonderful
pickup.
For you guys like I think thisis a storyline that we can
follow for the off season, intothe season and the future.
Problem is, though, where westarted from right, like it was
not the best.

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Keep in mind, ladies andgentlemen, keep in mind we do
have history, where you knowwhat these picks.
They've gone this way a littlebit right.
We got 2010, when the Heatacquired LeBron James, the Cavs
got the first pick Shout outKyrie Irving right.
Then we got 2011, when theClippers got Chris Paul and the

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Hornets got Anthony Davis.
Shout out AD right.
Then we got 2010, when AD wentto my Lakers Well, the Pelicans
they ended up getting Zion withthe number one pick, right.
So you know, know, again, wegot ad in the mix as well.
Then we got to talk about lucaand we traded him for 80, like.

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We have situations, ladies andgentlemen, where the teams we
have seen these teams make picksright after a weird off season
or a weird trade.
Okay, so that has occurred inthe past.
The problem I have is wherethis is coming from.
Again, everybody that I justlisted off is in this mix.
We got Anthony Davis, we gotKyrie Irving okay.

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So it applies to Luka Doncic.
I mean to Cooper Flag now aswell, along with Luka Doncic.
They're all in this mix rightnow.
But this is why I'm this is myproblem, okay, this is my
problem the percentage odds thatwe had for 2024.
Let's, let's go back to 2024real quick.
The Pistons, wizards, hornetsthey were supposed to get the

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number one picks, right.
Notice how the Wizards were atthe number one odds yet again.
They were in the thick ofthings, for the number one odds
Couldn't get it.
Yet again, they were in thethick of things for the number
one odds Couldn't get it.
Let's now go to 2025.
The Wizards are yet again inthe thick of things.
You got the Jazz, the Wizards,the Hornets.
Ladies and gentlemen, these arethe orders in which the worst

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teams are ranked from worst toleast worst.
That's what we're looking atright here.
So when I see the DallasMavericks get first, the Spurs
get second.
Remember, this is where we'recoming from.
Let's look at the Spurs realquick.

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Spurs had a 6% chance atwinning.
There are one, two, three, four, two, three, four, five, six,
seven teams before we get to thespurs.
But they get number two.
All right, cool.
But like the maths, and and,ladies and gentlemen, again, I
really I listed off those weirdtrades that occurred, right,

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right.
So when, like when, the Mavs dothis and they get the number
one pick, does it not sound likethat?
And keep in mind I mentionedthis happened before.
So what's the difference?
Well, the difference is thoseteams that actually did get the
number one pick.
They were at a.

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They were a bad team.
The Mavs were injured.
The team injuries derailed thembut they were kind of close to
making it to the playoffs.
But that team gets the numberone pick.
I do understand Nico Harringtongetting death threats and you

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want to maybe try to save theman's life.
I do hear that.
Adam Silver, I understand youtrying to be a hero, but we are
taking away from the game.
I've been saying and preachingthat the Washington Wizards were
going to get the number onepick and draft Cooper Flagg when
he was going to be coined theAmerican Flagg.
That's right.
Cooper Flagg is supposed to beon the American flag.
That's right.
Cooper flag is supposed to beon the Washington Wizards,

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ladies and gentlemen, becausethey deservedly, or they
deserved, the right to acquirehim, to draft him.
They have sucked for so longLike that is trash.
The 76ers they could have gottenin the mix a little bit for the
one spot.
I would have heard that Becauseyou know what they were at the

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bottom of the barrel the Hornets, although I wouldn't have
wanted it to happen because Iwish better for Coop, because
the Hornets organization is justa piss boy, but they could have
gotten them.
Again they've been at thebottom of the barrel.
The Jazz not getting them istough.
They're the worst team.

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And the Wizards is worsebecause you know what?
They were number two, secondfrom the bottom for back-to-back
years.
They saw 14% and the NBA saiduh-uh, like we got to start
looking at the NBA.
We got to look at the NBA andhonestly, we may even have to
question EY a little bit.
Like isn't Ernst Young, theauditors, somebody over there

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cheating bro?
I'm telling you right now theDallas Mavericks cannot have
acquired Cooper Flagg becauseKyrie Irving, cooper Flagg,
anthony Davis, even if we got ADand Kyrie injured, you still
sell the fan base on CooperFlagg, which he'll get a bucket.
He'll dominate right.
But now you have a solid triowhich can work for the present

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and the future.
So I think the Dallas Mavericksare doing some things.
But also, keep in mind too,this storyline automatically
puts Cooper Flag in comparisonto Luka Doncic.
So I'm excited because you alsogot Kyrie, who has now played
with both players and he's alsopart of the brotherhood.

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Both of them are Koop and Kyrie.
So you know you got some Dukefans out there who are going to
be following the DallasMavericks Also.
Keep in mind too, the jerseysare blue, so you know what I'm
saying.
It might be odd Like we got somewonderful things to follow, but
it's just giving me riggedvibes that the Dallas Mavericks
won.
It really truly does.

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It really does Terrible optics.
Again, this does affect thefuture of the NBA, but how about
from an NBA product standpoint?
Because now we got enough dataout here to suggest that you
know what y'all are rigging.
These lotteries and thisauditor that y'all have ain't
really worth a damn.
If's what, that's what.
If somebody said that I can't bemad at that statement.
Right, like the wizards shouldhave drafted cooper flag, would

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have had jordan pool, get ashooting guard.
Block cool bali, cooper flag,alexar, you can.
You can package that for thefuture, because block cool bali,
alexar are part of the french,are part of the french team.
So when they go to the olympics, it's going to A and they have
to go up against their teammatein Cooper Flagg, where he can be
coined.
The American Flagg, like I said, would have been solid, but

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again though, he's on theMavericks apparently.
So kudos.
But yeah, it's just wild.
I wouldn't have assumed, Iwouldn't have guessed he would
have gotten the number one pick,like not him, the Mavericks
Like I would.
I knew Cooper.
I knew Cooper was going numberone.
That was easy.
Anybody with a brain knew hewas going number one.

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But yeah, this right here I'mbaffled, but I am definitely
curious what y'all thought aboutthis trade.
What y'all thought about thistrade?
I'm sorry about thisacquisition Because for a second
too, I was thinking theMavericks might be able to sell
and trade Cooper Flagg and get aGiannis Antetokounmpo.

(08:27):
Now you got Giannis and AD Ooh.
But again, I think you do wantto keep Cooper Flagg and I think
the Mavericks are doing rightby keeping Cooper Flagg.
So we have to pay attention toCooper Flagg for a multitude of
reasons One, because of the team.
Two, because of who theMavericks just traded.
And three, because he's thenumber one pick.
Four, because he went to Duke.
There's so many reasons tofollow Cooper Flagg, so I'm
going to be looking and payingattention to this.

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But yeah, this lottery was wild.
It provided a lot of storylines.
I give y'all credit, nba, y'alldid y'all things in terms of
entertainment value.
But yeah, this was crazy.
But, ladies and gentlemen, Iwant to know what y'all all
thought about this lottery,because a couple of other teams
should have won the lottery, ifwe're being honest, but the
Mavericks did get it, so that iswhat it is.

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