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JuveJay

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Lol. Cavs are in trouble. Spida maybe missing out, and getting a sense of deja-vu.

I'm shitting bricks a bit for the draft lottery. I've accepted #5 and Tre Johnson or VJ Edgecombe, anything else will be a bonus from here. The lottery has not once been friendly to the Jazz, and I'm full on board with the conspiracy theories (lmao) and expect either Spurs or a big market team like Brooklyn to get top 2, either that or Dallas help for Luka!
 

JuveJay

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Oh wow. I. Am. So. Surprised. Tell me this shit isn't rigged.

Listening to some stats, the odds for the top 3 being DAL, SAN, PHI was 0.014%.

Jazz needed the #1 ball to show to move up, in the 16 draws (none of which we're allowed to see, for some reason) they didn't draw the #1 ball once. Odds of that are 0.15%.

The league opens itself up for all sorts of conspiracy theories and criticism, because it all looks so suspect.

Isn't great for the league sending the best two picks to the West when it's stacked. Having Spurs move up every year and be able to assemble a super team. I suspect the league wants super teams and big market fans happy, ok.
 
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Ronn

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Oh wow. I. Am. So. Surprised. Tell me this shit isn't rigged.

Listening to some stats, the odds for the top 3 being DAL, SAN, PHI was 0.014%.

Jazz needed the #1 ball to show to move up, in the 16 draws (none of which we're allowed to see, for some reason) they didn't draw the #1 ball once. Odds of that are 0.15%.

The league opens itself up for all sorts of conspiracy theories and criticism, because it all looks so suspect.

Isn't great for the league sending the best two picks to the West when it's stacked. Having Spurs move up every year and be able to assemble a super team. I suspect the league wants super teams and big market fans happy, ok.
Probabilities of specific combos are never high. But I completely understand where conspiracy theorists are coming from. Mavs getting the #1 pick is not different than Hawks getting it last year, but Spurs being in top 4 3 years in a row is either very lucky or suspicious.
 

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