2025 draft thread: THE MAVS SELECT COOPER FLAGG

[Mavs2021]

I would've thought that, too, before I dug in over the past few days. I just don't think it's possible.

Further, I don't think the motivations are as clear as conspiracy theorists believe. Sooo many conflicting agendas would have to find common purpose to pull it off. It's so far-fetched I don't even think it's worth wondering about, personally.

I saw the Zach Lowe podcast about the draft room and the procedure. I don´t know whether they use the same 14 balls to draw each of the four numbers, but say they just enter 14 balls into the machine and draw one, then the other 13 balls get released from the bowl. Afterwards the next 14 balls are entered into the bowl and the next ball is drawn. Under those circumstances you only need to manipulate one ball for each drawing, make it heavier and magnetic whatever. I also don´t know how the numbers are aligned to the odds. Maybe the Mavs have a winning ticket for certain combinations that you don´t even need to fix all four drawings. I don´t know whether they did fix it, but I 100% believe it can be done.

At the end of the day the lottery odds were 

Mavs 1.8% (after Luka left to Lakers)
Cavs 2.8% (after LeBron left to Miami)
Cavs 1.7% (after LeBron returns)
Pelicans 6% (after AD left to Lakers)

So four of the five lowest probability winners of the lottery in the last 15 years have lined up perfectly with four of the most traumatic events of the last 15 years. 

It´s not the "normal" Wizards, Blazers, Hornets or Jazz franchises that landed those 1.8% odds in that year. No it´s the exact traumatized franchise in that exact year that landed those exact low probability odds. And it did not happen once, no it happened four times in 15 years.