Hornets Screwed in NBA Draft Lottey...Again

[panthersphan]

Adam Silver is no more than a mod boss. Under the table handshake with Dallas … force them to move Luka to the Lakers (viewership is way down, LeBron is about to retire; they need their new star in a Lakers uniform to carry the league). So Silver gets them to move Luka to LA in exchange they’ll receive the #1 pick Cooper Flagg.

It’s so obvious it’s insulting. This league is a fuginggggg joke. Always has been. Ewing, LeBron, Kyrie (after LeBron leaves Cleveland), etc etc etc. It is literally pro wrestling with a ball and hoop.

Edited May 13 by panthersphan

[33inNC]

Just now, panthersphan said:

Adam Silver is no more than a mod boss. Under the table handshake with Dallas … force them to move Luka to the Lakers (LeBron is aging; they need their new star to carry the league). So Silver gets them to move Luka to LA in exchange they’ll receive the #1 pick Cooper Flagg.

It’s so obvious it’s insulting. This league is a fuginggggg joke. Always has been. Ewing, LeBron, Kyrie (after LeBron leaves Cleveland), etc etc etc. It is literally pro wrestling with a ball and hoop.

Adam Silver is the biggest fraud in all of "pro" sports. The NBA is now a joke of a league that is banking on people to just love basketball and ignore reality. 

[Butterflyj30]

This happens every single year it's not fair

[WUnderhill]

I’d love for the league to go down but I doubt it will. Fans of bigger market teams don’t have the same experience as we do. If we all stop supporting the league, and by proxy the Hornets, all that happens is the Hornets get moved…again. I get so disgusted hearing the media talk about non flagship teams anytime they get lucky enough to land a star. The star basically always leaves and it is always framed as the team’s fault for not building around the star when it’s the players who run the league and decide which city to play grab ass in. Milwaukee drafted and developed Giannis and won a championship and have bent over backwards doing everything Giannis wants to make him happy from coaches to players, and all I hear is how Giannis deserves a better franchise. That’s right, get fuged Milwaukee and your fans. And of course that better franchise is going to be someplace the NBA has basically seeded with draft picks.

[ForJimmy]

Just get rid of the stupid lottery. Every fan knows it’s nonsense at this point. We also need to trade away Ball at this point and draft a PG to develop with Miller, Williams, and whatever we get for Ball. 

[djp14]

10 minutes ago, WUnderhill said:

Fans of bigger market teams don’t have the same experience as we do. 

Thing is, we can't even blame it on being a small market. OKC is a smaller market than Charlotte, and they're competing. Just need solid ownership and a good front office. We've never had good ownership, and our last good GM was Bob Bass.

[Shocker]

I am done with this league.  No integrity and I will totally enjoy its downfall.  

[Shocker]

57 minutes ago, ForJimmy said:

Just get rid of the stupid lottery. Every fan knows it’s nonsense at this point. We also need to trade away Ball at this point and draft a PG to develop with Miller, Williams, and whatever we get for Ball. 

LOL…right.  They have this exactly like they want it.  They will never change now

[WUnderhill]

1 hour ago, djp14 said:

Thing is, we can't even blame it on being a small market. OKC is a smaller market than Charlotte, and they're competing. Just need solid ownership and a good front office. We've never had good ownership, and our last good GM was Bob Bass.

That’s kind of the point though. OKC was lucky enough to get the #2 pick for KD instead of the #1 pick for Oden and they did a fantastic job building around him. And what happens? He leaves to ring chase in larger markets and they have nothing to show for it. They are definitely a better drafting team than the Hornets, but it still comes down to the only shot we have is lucking into a generational player in the draft and winning before they leave, and that chance is diminished by the rigged lottery system.

[OceanPanther]

I’d rather the teams that tank the season, be rewarded, getting first pick if you’re the worst .. not this bs 

but it’s the nba,, no one cares except for about 6 teams 

[Daddy_Uncle]

It's just annoying that some fan bases like the Mavs and Spurs are so spoiled by the NBA then there's fan bases like ours that get kicked and spit on by the league

[carpanfan96]

The odds of Dallas, SA, 76ers, Cha top 4 was 1 in 4115 or 0.000243%.

[mrcompletely11]

so twitter is telling me that last nights results had a .09% chance of happening

 

LOL fug you NBA you are not even trying to hide it anymore

[djp14]

9 hours ago, WUnderhill said:

That’s kind of the point though. OKC was lucky enough to get the #2 pick for KD instead of the #1 pick for Oden and they did a fantastic job building around him. And what happens? He leaves to ring chase in larger markets and they have nothing to show for it. They are definitely a better drafting team than the Hornets, but it still comes down to the only shot we have is lucking into a generational player in the draft and winning before they leave, and that chance is diminished by the rigged lottery system.

Well, I was referring to the current OKC team. Who is their generational player? SGA? The Hornets were the ones who drafted him, at #11. And then traded him immediately. And even if he leaves OKC, they won 68 games this year, and are currently 2 games away from the conference finals. So, they've got a chance, which is something we've never said about the Hornets. My point being, even if the odds weren't stacked against us (which they are), we'd manage to screw it up anyway.

Even if the lottery was legit, it's just a bad, bad look for the NBA. We've heard scattered "rigged" claims before, but last night everyone seemed to be in agreement. Even Mavs fans.

Edited May 13 by djp14