NY Knicks with a 90% chance for #1 pick

Sure, just like when they had 90% at the #1 pick when Yao was supposed to turn around the Knicks or the next year when the league fixed the draft to put Lebron in NY.

 

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The Magic have won the lotto 3 times.

The Spurs, Nets, 76ers, Bucks, Clippers, & Bulls have won twice.

The Knicks won once, and that was 24 years ago when there was a 1:7 chance.

I doubt its fixed to benefit the Knicks.

 

Lotto won't be fixed, one of the couple times I felt it had to be fixed was back in 2007.

 

Let's see. Houston got Yao. Cleveland got Lebron. SA got Duncan. Magic got Shaq/DH...

If anything, it's like the basketball lottery gods are spiting the big market teams by screwing them out of high picks. i.e. Duncan draft + Boston.

 

Griffin goes to LA. The 2nd largest market, while NY gets screwed for messing up for so many years.

 

Too bad the Clippers won it. What a waste.

 

I would think that letting OKC win for Blake Griffin just one year after Chicago got paired with hometown guy Derrick Rose would've been way too obvious.