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JJ Jansen on tanking


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1 hour ago, kungfoodude said:

I will say that the NBA lottery has been so obviously corrupt for years that it is disgraceful.

Yeah NBA could do the result live and on screen if they wanted to but they'd rather have guys go where they want

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there is a reason the NFL is more successful than the NBA and there is a reason they easily stole holiday games from them.  The NFL model works better of making every team relevant essentially all the time.  

and that lottery is crooked.  Can't convince me they don't rig it to aid certain teams/markets where it matters.

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When the Pelicans were temporarily owned by the NBA in 2019, they had a 6% chance of winning the lottery.  Remarkably, obviously an act of diving intervention, they won the lottery.  This increased the value of the Pelicans. 

 

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23 minutes ago, toldozer said:

Yeah NBA could do the result live and on screen if they wanted to but they'd rather have guys go where they want

thats the bizarre part of this, if they wanted a show and not have conspiracy theorist raging today, why not simply show the balls being loaded into the tank and then have a 3rd party pull the balls?  They bring this poo on themselves.  The number floating today was .01% of what that outcome was last night.  Thats fuging bullshit. 

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