Gee, You Don't Suppose That Was Fixed...

[CatMan72]

If a team is willing to endure the pain and financial loss associated with tanking a season, they deserve the # 1 pick.

[CatMan72]

umad? Don't be mad man, maybe Charlotte will have a chance at #1 next year!

Glad you are keeping track of my life though its inaccurate.

LOL, you thought you could hide by changing your screen name.

[God]

hide by changing my screen name? the hell are you talking about you dumbass? If i was gonna hide under a screen name i think i wouldve chosen a little something different.

[Stroupe-a-loop]

A live lottery drawing is a heck of a lot more transparent then what they have now, right???

I don't care about the TV quality, I think the NBA could take the hit on ratings for this 30 min show in the name of transparency.

Each team GM could be given a chance to verify the balls are okay before they start and they could watch as the balls are drawn and the #'s are verified.

Is that so hard? Is the NBA that desperate for ratings during the playoffs?

If you had all the GMs come in or some appointed representative counting ping pong balls, you could not put it on television. It would be the biggest cluster fug ever with the dude from Portland wanting a recount on his teams balls and the cat from Golden State trying to start a brawl because he ended up picking 5th. I'm going to predict it would be like british parliment which is actually kind of awesome, but pretty embarrasing for the league. It would also take hours.

Maybe you could stream it online, but the NBA likes the drama surrounding the event, so they do it like this. Plus, like I said: it's billions of dollars. If they wanted to rig it, they'd still rig the damn thing.

[CatMan72]

i like to support my local teams, nothing wrong with that. I support the colts too. Until the Bobcats make it clear they want to win they don't deserve anyone as a fan, they are lucky idiots pay to go see the garbage games.

Uh huh... just funny how your support seems to coincide with which teams are up/down at any particular moment.

You just said:

They had a fair chance at it and yall just lost. It's the way the cookie crumbles, now enjoy your role player!

So it's our role player, unless he turns out to be good, then he'll be yours too, right?

[God]

Like I said if the Bobcats wanna show some support to their fans and act like they WANT to do something other than being a heaping pile of horseshit, people might come around eventually. Leave it at that.

[RedMage138]

All I'm saying is, there's absolutely no reason not to hold the lottery in public. It doesn't need to be a secret thing. Let us watch the Ping Pong balls fly.

[CatMan72]

If you had all the GMs come in or some appointed representative counting ping pong balls, you could not put it on television. It would be the biggest cluster fug ever with the dude from Portland wanting a recount on his teams balls and the cat from Golden State trying to start a brawl because he ended up picking 5th. I'm going to predict it would be like british parliment which is actually kind of awesome, but pretty embarrasing for the league. It would also take hours.

Maybe you could stream it online, but the NBA likes the drama surrounding the event, so they do it like this. Plus, like I said: it's billions of dollars. If they wanted to rig it, they'd still rig the damn thing.

Pssst, you could have each eligible GM verify the balls before the TV show started and they would each have a reasonable time limit in which to verify the balls are okay... there are only 14 balls.

When the TV show starts, you start drawing the balls and checking the chart with all the GM's watching.

Would it be perfect? No, but it would be MUCH more credible than the current process.

[RedMage138]

Whatever, you know you would be saying something along those lines if somebody else had won. If New Orleans was so obvious, show me the thread where everybody agreed they were going to win it.

You should read what Bill Simmons wrote earlier today about the conspiracy factor.

New Orleans (83 out of 100)

We might as well start here: For two more months, THE LEAGUE OWNS THE FREAKING TEAM!!!!! Saints* owner Tom Benson doesn’t assume control until July. It's true. So why doesn’t this rate 100 out of 100? Many connected people believe Benson bought the Hornets because of Bountygate — as a way to divert everyone’s attention in New Orleans from one of the most damaging scandals in NFL history. How else can you explain Benson lowballing the NBA for the past year, then suddenly blinking and agreeing to Stern’s price? You know, unless they promised him Anthony Davis as part of the deal.

(Wait a second … )

New Orleans (93 out of 100)

That's better.

[CatMan72]

hide by changing my screen name? the hell are you talking about you dumbass? If i was gonna hide under a screen name i think i wouldve chosen a little something different.

U mad now? LOL

[Panthercougar68]

All I'm saying is, there's absolutely no reason not to hold the lottery in public. It doesn't need to be a secret thing. Let us watch the Ping Pong balls fly.

Then you get evidence out in the public ;)

[God]

nope not mad at all. just putting an idiot in his place, its fun for me.

[Stroupe-a-loop]

Pssst, you could have each eligible GM verify the balls before the TV show started and they would each have a reasonable time limit in which to verify the balls are okay... there are only 14 balls.

Jesus? Are you drunk? If there are 14 balls, how would teams (like the bobcats) have a weighted chance (25% in this case) of getting the 1st pick? If there were just 14 balls, that would mean that every team would have a 1 in 14 chance of getting the top pick.

I mean, do you people think that machine they show behind the pretty lady with 14 balls in it is the machine they use? GAH!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_Draft_Lottery#Process

We had 250 balls in there this year. Not one of fourteen.

You should read what Bill Simmons wrote earlier today about the conspiracy factor.

New Orleans (83 out of 100)

We might as well start here: For two more months, THE LEAGUE OWNS THE FREAKING TEAM!!!!! Saints** owner Tom Benson doesn’t assume control until July. It's true. So why doesn’t this rate 100 out of 100? Many connected people believe Benson bought the Hornets because of Bountygate — as a way to divert everyone’s attention in New Orleans from one of the most damaging scandals in NFL history. How else can you explain Benson lowballing the NBA for the past year, then suddenly blinking and agreeing to Stern’s price? You know, unless they promised him Anthony Davis as part of the deal.

(Wait a second … )

New Orleans (93 out of 100)

That's better.

Dude, why would the NBA sell the team before the Draft Lottery if they were going to fix it? They would just wait until the team had the most popular player to come out college in years and sell it for more. Or do you think they just promise to fix the draft to every group of investors and hope one group sees that as enough reason to buy it? That's horrible logic. Also, Bill Simmons is a terrible sports writer that spends a majority of his time talking about an Entourage movie and making references to Teen Wolf.

And that's all I can stand. I'm out.

[CatMan72]

nope not mad at all. just putting an idiot in his place, its fun for me.

You showed up to troll this thread and got called out, don't be mad.

BTW, wrestling is pretty cool (if you're 12).