05-17-2025, 11:32 AM
(05-17-2025, 11:18 AM)SleepingHero Wrote: Definitely feels like "most" NBA executives are mad that Nico lucked his way into a get out of jail free card after pulling one over on them.
I mean how mad must the Jazz be right now? Wizards? Hornets?
I also remember a bunch of NBA executives and scouts saying a certain pro baller from Slovenia couldn't be an all-star because he was slow.
If we assume the NBA lottery is not rigged and different teams in 9th/10th and 11th would still win the lottery the past two years, then Utah especially has only themselves to blame. Wizards and Hornets are just sh*t, but Utah could easily have finished at 9th or 10th last year (probably even lower) and 11th this year, if they competed hard all year.
They were 26-26 and could easily have reached the play-in last year. They also finished 5-25 to tank ONE game below the Nets, who ended up swapping the 3rd pick to Houston.
This season they finished 2-21 and on top were tanking from the start.