Event 2025 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY, COMBINE, AND DRAFT

You don’t understand why the Lakers or Mavs would do it?

If Dallas really didn’t want Luka and they wanted to reset with a star on a rookie deal, they now have their next great white hope (funny how it always seems to be a white guy in Dallas.)

You guys keep acting like getting Luka is about this season. Lebron is 40. They had no young stars and no prospects for the future. Now they have a 26 year old superstar. The Lakers can go out and sign other players.

The owners want those fat tv deals to continue. They benefit from having a superstar in LA.

 

If the owners really care so much about fairness, why is it that Cuban is the only owner who has actively fought the league about their corrupt reffing? Have you guys seriously not seen the refs steal games or series from teams? And it’s never in the favor of the little guy. The underdog. It’s always for the mega superstar or teams like the Lakers.

 

Corrupt refs do not necessarily mean the league is behind it.

Every finals isn't won by the largest 5 media markets in the league.

 

If OKC wins the finals this year it'll be interesting to hear the new conspiracy justifications.

 

They didn’t get Flagg, but Spurs adding a talent like Bailey or Harper can’t be good for the rest of the league.

 

So right now we have Denver, Minnesota, OKC, Cleveland, Indiana in the playoffs but there's a grand conspiracy to help the big markets?

Knicks and Nets are by far biggest market. How many finals have they been in the last decade, or decades prior?

 

I’ve seen your haircut FAMS…… I’d ease up on the whole “dipshits” thing! #BAM

 

So the NBA has a conspiracy to give high lottery picks to a small market like the Spurs then have the small market Thunder play in the finals.

The evolving rational of these conspiracy is great.

Maybe next year the NBA will have a conspiracy where the Blazers win it all just to keep people guessing!

 

I enjoy all of the conspiracy talk as much as the next man, but in the end, it doesn't really matter (sing it!)

We're small market fans in a league that has preferred large markets. I'm not going to change my fandom, regardless.

 

I like it that despite the fact that San Antonio is a small media market people on here refer to them as an example of these huge conspiracies. Just doesn't make sense and where is your fucking evidence to make such outlandish claims. Oh yeah, it's 2025 so people can just say whatever the fuck they want, no matter how silly and not worry for one second about having substance to back up their wild ideas.

Great job continuing our current culture of baseless conspiracies. @Chris Craig and @Natebishop3 you guys keep doing the terrible work of eroding confidence in things without a shred of proof that those things are corrupt.

Your argument is as I understand it: Some things in the world are corrupt and you don't like the way things are going in the NBA... so the NBA is one of those corrupt things, no evidence needed.

 

He was injured son. The only reason they made it that far was BECAUSE of him.

 

Nuggets Bucks Raptors won titles last few years.

Yeah Warriors have won 4.... But they had 40 years of irrelevant sucking before that. Knicks had multiple decades without winning anything.

Meanwhile the Spurs won 5 titles and Pistons 3. West looks like it'll be dominated by OKC and the Spurs the next decade.

Markets certainly have an advantage - but it was more historically with extra revenue and free agency destinations. NBA has made rules changes to basically take away those advantages. Teams don't sign max free agents nowadays.

Will be interested how the conspiracy evolves.

 

@Natebishop3 to add to your thoughts, dont forget, Dallas let Brunson just walk. Who picked him up? NY. Another big market needing a star. Randle wasn't it. So Is it possible Dallas was told to let Jalen walk and trade Luka and we will get you Flagg? Gets two allstars moved to major markets both in need of a younger face for the long term.
Just sayin…

 

The Knicks haven't won one in over 50 years.

Knicks have won 2.
Lakers have won 17.
Clippers have won none.
Chicago has won 6.
Philly has won 3.
Dallas has won 1.

Milwaukee, Toronto and Denver have won 3 out of the last 6 titles.

OKC and Denver have strong chances of winning this year.

I know ya'll are mad, but come on now.

We should be more mad we didn't lose more games for more chances.

 

The philosopher Karl Popper argued that the mark of a science was falsifiablity. If you theory can "explain" everything, no matter what happens, then it's not a good theory, it's bullshit.
OKC loses - "see, it's a small-market team, of course the league made them lose"
OKC wins - "see, they let them win to take the heat off and obscure their corruption"

I will assume your tongue was in your cheek.