Event 2025 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY, COMBINE, AND DRAFT

prior to being drafted, Kobe let it be known via his agent that if his draft rights ended up with anyone besides the Lakers he would enroll at UNC and that team would lose his draft rights. This was openly spoken about prior to the draft and I heard interviews with several NBA GMs who were in the lotto confirming this including the Warrior GM Dave Twardzic & Nets Assistant GM John Nash... I also heard an interview with UNC coach Dean Smith saying the same thing. The NBA changed their rules following this to prevent it from happening again where now teams hold onto those rights

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POR did develop

 

POR got better through chemistry. Winning is a skill.

 

And to show you I am not made of stone, I am trying to reframe it all in a positive fucking light.

 

Execrable owner, bad GM, really bad coach, and a corrupt league. Are we having fun yet?

 

Sure, with players like Ayton. Williams, Simons, Grant, Thybulle. Guys that might not even be on the team next year.

If we won games playing our core and young guys together as many minutes as we could, then great.

 

Had Portland won lottery, fans of 13 other teams would be screaming it's rigged! Portland had only 1.8% chance. No way it was just luck. Adam Silver is Jewish. Portland traded for an Israeli player, putting him in a city where he would not face intense media scrutiny. Jody Allen has Paul's billions to bribe with. Clearly fix is in. NBA is corrupt.

 

Yeah, so Utah and Washington are probably eager to make that trade then...

 

Oh yeah, he was clamoring to play in Utah, CHA, or WAS…

 

so much wrong with this post. When they "won" it was the later 2/3rds of the season when Deni took the reigns. Ayton and Grant missed much of that stretch. Williams and Thybulle barely played all year. Simons is still young. They "won" at about a 50% clip from Christmas on playing the young guys a ton of minutes... so great right?!? The young core should be better next season, I'm excited to see how much better

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Nothing preventing Flagg from withdrawing and going back to Duke for a year. He can try again next year

 

Grant playing his last 18 games of the season from January through early March the Blazers won 12 games.

The last ten games Ayton played, we won 8 out of 10 games.

For a team in our position, there is no reason for us to have those kinds of players playing meaningful minutes.

 

Everyone knows POR played their best without Grant and Ayton. We know now what the team has in Tou and Deni. Sharpe showed glimpses and Scoot a few too. That is what the season was and that was a positive. All I am saying is UTA sucked ass and didn’t get Flagg

 

I don't wish harm to Flagg. Nothing against him. But what if he has a major injury? Or turns out to be a college star who doesn't cut it in NBA, like Christian Laettner or Mike Dunleavy Jr ? Would you all say NBA deliberately sent him to Dallas knowing he would be a bust?

 

At least 75% of the teams are in purgatory every year. I think this year 15/16 teams of 30 finished above 500. And that usually is the case very year too. And as most years there only 5-6 teams at most that are dominate contenders. The league is strictly built off of playoff hype and for a chance that a mediocre team at best could shock the world. Just about every pro league in sports have expanded playoffs knowing they were missing target fans.

 

It’s huge. I was looking yesterday and it’s like the 4th biggest market.

 

If the fake show wanted trade Doncic back to Dallas, would you give up #1?

 

Nothing except the rules. By declaring for the draft he can’t go back to college. If he goes and plays overseas the Mavs still own his NBA rights

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no opinion about Marks, but this season Simons-Ayton-Grant combined for 157 games. And, they combined for 157 starts. That was Billups and he'll be back. Does anybody really believe he's going to bench any of those 3 players if they are still Blazers? One of Avdija/Sharpe will likely be a backup, along with Clingan & Scoot

 

the deadline for withdrawing from the draft is June 15, so theoretically, Flagg could return to Duke



I have no clue about Flagg's arrangements, if any, with an agent. He has apperaed in a commercial but I don't believe that's disqualifying