The 2019 NBA Draft Lottery Thread

[lethalweapon3]

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[Spud2nique]

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Huh what? Why did they give Trae that voice
Omg I’m dyin here that’s awesome. Lebron gets drunk and starts trashing everyone and Dolan yells UR BANNED!

BR should never get rid of this. It’s pretty great. I could watch a half hour show of it. Ok 20 min.

[peoriabird]

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Not bad! Not bad at all!! LOL!

[jayu70]

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Heelarious
Kuz pushing out drunk LBJ and LBJ ripping everyone.
Why they got Trae like the confused kid at the adult table?
Booker wiping the goat pebbles from his shoe.
The 3 next Dirks.
So much in this.

They've been on point this season.

[jayu70]

I guess Jami was getting prepped for the draft:

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[Atlanta Hawk Fan]

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Huh what? Why did they give Trae that voice
Omg I’m dyin here that’s awesome. Lebron gets drunk and starts trashing everyone and Dolan yells UR BANNED!

BR should never get rid of this. It’s pretty great. I could watch a half hour show of it. Ok 20 min.

Co-signed! That was fantastic. Thanks for posting, lethal!

[Spud2nique]

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Huh what? Why did they give Trae that voice
Omg I’m dyin here that’s awesome. Lebron gets drunk and starts trashing everyone and Dolan yells UR BANNED!

BR should never get rid of this. It’s pretty great. I could watch a half hour show of it. Ok 20 min.

Co-signed! That was fantastic. Thanks for posting, lethal!

Indeed!

By the way I’m just putting this out there. Why wasn’t Durant representing the Knicks on the podium instead of Fitz? Might have been funny. Then I remembered that BR is Bay Area based and well..for obvious reasons.

[Spud2nique]

I guess Jami was getting prepped for the draft:

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I love it. She’s like a sponge soaking in bball info and kudos to Schlenky as well. She’s right he seems like he’s got a great basketball mind. Having Nelson as a mentor followed by Jerry West has to have a positive effect on you and it seems like it has.

Having said that,

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[diesel50]

I see some still dont recognize that the draft lottery is rigged. smh

[atlantabbq99]

New conspiracy... NBA gave the 1st and 2nd pick to the two lowest valued teams in the league to avoid another franchise moving.

[Atlanta Hawk Fan]

New conspiracy... NBA gave the 1st and 2nd pick to the two lowest valued teams in the league to avoid another franchise moving.

Not sure if this is tongue in cheek is just illustrating the silliness of claiming conspiracy when the teams that you would benefit in a conspiracy miss out on the top pick.

When a franchise moves it is a big payday for the other owners in the league. Moving isn't a bad thing for the other owners both short-term with the massive payoff when a team gets picked and long-term when moving to a higher revenue market.

[diesel50]

How can you not see the conspiracy. They move to 4 slots the year that Zion comes up? Bottom line is that the NBA has always used the draft lottery to take care of it's owners. Pelicans will lose Davis. For their troubles, they get Williamson. easy.

[Buzzard]

How can you not see the conspiracy. They move to 4 slots the year that Zion comes up? Bottom line is that the NBA has always used the draft lottery to take care of it's owners. Pelicans will lose Davis. For their troubles, they get Williamson. easy.

And if Knicks, Bulls, or Lakers had won the conspiracy would have been to make sure the big markets keep their ratings up. I don't care who won, we could come up with a conspiracy of why. Even us:

1- we've not had a number one pick since 1975 and David Thompson. Conspiracy, it was time to give us one.
2- with new stable ownership and a potential superstar with Trae, we needed to give a team in the southern region something to generate good ratings and a championship buzz over.

[HMFFL]

I see some still dont recognize that the draft lottery is rigged. smh

Fair to say as long as it's done without the public seeing.

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[D21]

How can you not see the conspiracy. They move to 4 slots the year that Zion comes up? Bottom line is that the NBA has always used the draft lottery to take care of it's owners. Pelicans will lose Davis. For their troubles, they get Williamson. easy.

And if Knicks, Bulls, or Lakers had won the conspiracy would have been to make sure the big markets keep their ratings up. I don't care who won, we could come up with a conspiracy of why. Even us:

1- we've not had a number one pick since 1975 and David Thompson. Conspiracy, it was time to give us one.
2- with new stable ownership and a potential superstar with Trae, we needed to give a team in the southern region something to generate good ratings and a championship buzz over.

If that was the case, I'm not sure the second argument would be view like that. There's not a lot of team at the bottom with two future All-Star young like John and Trae. They show that they will be able to lead this team in playoffs by themselves, so why giving them Zion when he would more change a team like NOP ?
In this POV, ATL shows too much potential this year. You have to be awful to watch and they were exciting. NOP were not

On the other side, it's kind of irritating to see two teams that would have been able to compete for a playoffs spot in the West, making changes and tanking as much as they can the second half of the season, being rewarded.

This draft was supposed to be an example of the end of the tanking, and it was only the end of the "tank all season long", but not the end of "show what you are able to do first, then tank as much as you can"


Now, knowing if it's rigged or not would not change a lot for me, but... if it's rigged, I'd like to know how they they do !
The first thing I would check if why the briefcase is not shown with balls, and why it has to stay here during the lottery... maybe a magnetic sensor in the briefcase

[Jamaaliver]

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I'd probably lean towards 4 years of the rookie of my choice.

Now factor in Hawks GM Travis Schlenk’s scouting. He took starter John Collins at No. 19 in the 2017 draft. That was a hit. Schlenk took guard Kevin Huerter at No. 19 in 2018 and he came on the second half of the 2018-19 season and is a keeper.

If you have an eye for talent and can project a player, then you should like your position of having [multiple] first-round picks...My guess is the Hawks have six players not named Zion Williamson and Ja Morant that they really like. Hunter, Duke’s Cam Reddish, Texas Tech’s Jarrett Culver, are among them.

Schlenk has referred to the draft as “swings of the bat”, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. That’s because the more swings, the better chance to barrel one up for a big hit, like Collins. Schlenk likes his swings because he trusts his eye.

Here is something else to keep in mind about this draft. The Hawks are kinda sorta still in a developmental stage. Do they take the best player available, or do they fill needs and look for a swing forward and length? it will likely be the 6-foot-8 Reddish. The question is whether Schlenk has dissected Reddish’ game enough and feels his below average numbers at Duke were an anomaly. The NBA is all about position-less basketball and the Hawks small ball culture could get by with the 6-foot-8 Reddish, and 6-foot-11 Collins on the frontline and three smaller players around them.

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