Event 2025 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY, COMBINE, AND DRAFT

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    Damn, I thought that would get rid of you.
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    You’re more than free to block me. It’s an easy click.
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    At least he got there. Dame never sniffed the finals.
     
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    Either does purgatory. Which is where we are at.

    Our team sucks. Not good enough for the playoffs, and we probably wont be for at least half a decade. Accept it. I have.
     
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    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    I used to be a huge fan too, but the NBA has gone to shit. It's become an exclusive members club where only a few teams are allowed to succeed and win championships. And, it's fucking obvious.

    Still, a Blazers fan of course. But, it just gets harder knowing they will never be allowed to win anything.
     
    Chris Craig, May 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    He probably would have had he not been a Blazer
     
    Chris Craig, May 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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    The team around Luka got him there. There is that all important word TEAM again.
     
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    We will always be in some purgatory or the other.
     
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    Watch the Mavs trade the #1 pick to the Lakers for Lebron.
     
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    As pissed off as we are for not moving up 10 places....the top 3 teams must be devastated in THIS draft to ALL drop out of the top 3.

    ....Also F those other teams.
     
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    The league doesn't wan't tanking. They can't reward it.
     
    Chris Craig, May 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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    They also aren't picking at 11
     
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    There is luck. Curry getting injured. Shit beyond anyone's control. Like who wins lottery.

    Chicago is a much bigger media market than Dallas, if it was fixed Bulls get pick.
     
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    Since Meyers Leonard.
     
    SharpesTriumph, May 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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    Watch SlyPokerDog become Blazers starting center!
     
    crandc, May 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Some things I thought about once the rage went away (I'm joking about the rage part).

    It's kind of pointless to complain about how they finish the season now, as the last 2 lotto winners were both a part of the play-in.

    The league should eliminate those teams as potential lotto picks, IMHO.

    Also, when LeBron left the Cavs, they got the #1 pick.

    When Anthony Davis was traded from the Pelicans, they got the #1 pick.

    The Mavs gift the Lakers their best player (and arguably a top 5 player in the league), and they get the # 1 pick.

    Portland trades their best player and their reward? The 7th pick.

    Thankfully there's no guarantee in life, but JFC, the league really has a weird way about making things fair.

    I'd really be pissed if I was a Jazz, Wizards or Hornets fan.
     
    julius, May 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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    You were complaint about the Spurs winning the lottery when this thread started. The didn't
    Now it's Dallas? No matter who won it thered be a bunch of crazy conspiracy posts.
     
    SharpesTriumph, May 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Maybe step away from the ledge?

    Team was a whole 12 games out of the playoffs (and 3 games from the play-in). They aren't an old team on the way out, they're a young team in the 2nd year of an actual re-start.

    This place overreacts to every fucking thing. It's maddening.
     
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    I just threw up in my mouth...
     
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    It's laughable... Flat earth trump supporting brainwashed people around here.
     
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