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!
