The fact that small market teams have been doing relatively well after going through the draft process (including us) should reduce our suspicions that rigging lottery is a thing. Just check the video of the lottery. A LOT of reputations are on the line in this process and Nico's Harrison's fate is certainly not worth it to all these people to bend over & give Flagg to Dallas. At the same time, I think these coincidences are not great for the League. LA will always be fine in the long term (plus Luka is not charismatic and has a lot of competition for the face of the league pendant.) The league tries hard to maintain the notion of fairness of the game. I think they should start doing peer review of its executives/ownership and if the review is sh*t for too long for a single organization, then league has a right to reorg it in some way (eg fire Nico Harrison & or maybe even temporarily take over managing for Ranadive's & Jordan's types) so fans can feel that they have recourse.
I freaking knew it!! Called this in February but I didn’t want to believe they would go through with it. They actually did it!
The league is set up. If this guy knew, so did everyone else involved. All of the trade rumors and negotiating, and this or that, is theater.
