LONGER wrote:Syd-TK3 wrote:How can a coin toss decide a tie between 3 teams?
Am I the only one confused?
http://watch.nba.com/video/channels/nba_tv/2015/04/17/20150417-draft-tiebreaker-drawing.nba
It is balls, not a coin. Also, putting on my tin foil hat, curious how they go from a wide shot where you can see all of the balls bouncing, and cut away to a different close up shot of a single ball being selected. They 'could' be faking this whole 'random' selection process.
Why can't they just be transparent about this, and about the actual draft lottery? The lottery doesn't have to be conducted in a closed room hours before the results are announced. This ping pong ball 'coin flip' should at minimum be one clear uninterrupted shot of the drawing.
Makes me wonder if these billionaire owners just bid against each other behind closed doors to decide who wins these things. Highest bidder gets the prize, but the other owners split the bid pool. Coin flip between three teams? Who wants it more? Denver bids $0, Kings bid $2M, Bucks bid $3M and win it. Bucks draft 8th. Kings bid $0.01, Denver bids $0.00 and the Kings draft 9th. Denver loses and drafts 10th. Then turns the pick over to the Raptors. LOL. (fake up a video and play it for the masses)
Or... Chicago has next to a zero percent chance of winning the lottery one year, but REALLY REALLY wants home boy Rose, so they bid $30M behind the scenes and all of the lottery teams split the pot. Come out from the 'locked room' a few hours later, hand everyone their 'scripts', show the lovely Mallory Edens and that Cleveland dweeb, announce the dweeb (or whomever bid the most) as the winner, and let the masses think it is all on the up and up.
Who knows? These owners are frickin' Billionaires and used to 'fixing' things to get ahead. The only problem is that these guys who are all used to paying up and getting whatever they want, now have to agree to things. Publicly. I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that the ones with the deepest pockets often uses those deep pockets to 'get what they want'. Who knows, lottery 'bidding' might even take place for all picks from 1-13. If they don't want 'tin foil hat' wearing fans to speculate like this, just be 100% transparent, open and honest with the whole process. If there is even one thing we 'have to take your word for' then they might as well just keep the whole process private, skip the sham(?) show and just tweet out the draft order once the bids are over with.
PS James Young!?!? LOL Bilas
