Yeah this isn't San an...Dallas h town and even Austin are fine in the women department. Some people will always just believe the nba is not rigged. The nba could own the Hornets for the next 5 years and win the lottery every time and they will still be "too cool" for conspiracies.
Let's hope Le$ finally realizes that we could have been nearly done rebuilding if he would let Morey do his job... The Hornets have completed 80% of rebuilding in 12 months....
this is a joke. david stern finger prints all over this lottery. including shafting houston...Again, in the process. this is the one time i wish the fed would step in and put a clown in jail.
I've noticed it's not so much that we keep getting #14, but that we can't seem to pick quality with that pick, but damned if we can't find hidden treasures in the 2nd round. I think we should trade our #14 for 2 or 3 2nd rounders - we'd be better off.
327 million dollars to rig a lottery. The commissioner did well. Someone post that list that shows all the nba draft rigs. Rose from Chicago and they win the number one pick when the bulls stop selling out post Michael effect and they only have the number 7 spot. Lebron from Cleveland... Alright hopefully the rockets can get Dwight because all the game changers will be gone by 12-13 unless someone falls.
At this point you have got to stop following the team. This is a voluntary proposition. It's clearly too much for you.
just stop and think for a second. Would it make any sense for Stern to rig this lottery on purpose for new orleans' benefit knowing that it would look very suspicious? He would be a dumbass if he rigged the lottery for new orleans
Ok, I have to ask...how did Houston get shafted again? Does that fact that the winning combination came from one of the 995 (out of 1000) combinations that the Rockets didn't hold really surprise you? If one of our 5 combinations had won it would have been the biggest longshot in NBA lottery history.
By no means am I saying the lottery was rigged. However, what you are saying doesn't make sense at all. Bottom line is, the Hornets won the lottery. Does it look very suspicious? Maybe to some. Is anything going to happen to Stern? No. Consider the possibility it was in fact rigged. Would anyone know? Is anything going to happen to Stern? Consider this. No one wanted to buy the Hornets for a very long time. Stern just could not sell them. Gordon was leaving and the team would be in shambles. What owner would want to invest in that? Perhaps selling the owner on the prospect of the #1 pick and two promising players moving forward would be enough to secure a buyer. Not advocating anything, just giving a reason for the possibility. The Hornets in fact won the lottery.... Nothing is going to happen to Stern whether he had a hand in it or not.
how does it not make sense? if he wanted to avoid suspicion to that exact scenario u mentioned above, why would he award new orleans w/ the number 1 pick and only furthur increase suspicion. why not just give it to the bobcats?
It isn't a scenario. It actually happened. New Orleans has the #1 pick. All I'm saying is that nothing more than suspicion will come from this, no matter the motives behind it.
The question everybody should be asking is: "why wouldn't it be rigged??" The NBA is already full of controversy and Stern has never been part of any investigation whatsoever. The guy can do what he wants, the NBA is run mafia-like so again: why not or why would'nt Stern do it. Nobody's going to call him out or else they will get fined and if they go further blackballed, fired or something along those lines.
Crap. Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap. No freakin' luck, and the NBA owned team gets the number #1 pick. What a ****ing surprise.
Which thread would be best to ask and discuss who the Rockets should be targeting with the 14th and 16th picks?
Here, here. I dont see why thats a problem at all. Why does there have to be a secretive process at all? It should be out in the open thats for sure. Nobody knows how they make this selection and see it personally. I think something like that fans and the teams representatives should definitely see the process.
