SuperBad wrote:I wouldn’t think rigging the draft lottery as a punishable crime, franchisees have to stick together, I don’t think it ruins the NBA at all, it makes it better, I definitely think this Detroit Pistons core will come together for a championship in the next 4 years, even if coop ended up with Wemby. It’s not the end of the world, he’s forcing the owners hand to spend more and put together better rosters, that’s a win for all true basketball fans, and only a loss to the casual ones. We waited our time these teams need to as well.
Massively misrepresenting your business model for the sake of making more dollars falls squarely into the category of fraud on both the federal and the state levels, and this would be an absolutely massive case of fraud. We're talking congressional grand juries and a hardcore FBI investigation, with the owners and NBA front office put front and center.