Could the fix be in again??

[nickagneta]

Basketball in NY is bad and has been for a while. Mike D'Antoni came in last year and he might be a good start but after seeing other superstars light up MSG like a Christmas tree with huge scoring nights and big wins, its pretty obvious that the Knicks are going to need help to bring great basketball back to the Big Apple.

Enter the 2010 free agent season and tonight's draft lottery. Rumors have been swirling for months and months regarding the ultimate destination of one King James and New York has been mentioned quite a bit with LeBron even teasing about it on occassion. But will LeBron go to a team where there will be no other decent player to play with?

Enter tonight's draft lottery. The Knicks hold a 2.8% chance of landing the #1 pick and getting Blake Griffin. Could the fix be in once again so that a budding future superstar is in New York to make LeBron's decision easier?

Yeah, yeah, I know, the Patrick Ewing draft wasn't fixed and the NBA is on the level and doesn't fix game outcomes or draft lottery outcomes. But, if they did, would this be a way to try to establish New York as a viable basketball city once again?

The Knicks will have Gallinari, Curry, Jeffries, Chandler and probably David Lee back in 2010-11 and will have a ton of cap space. Maybe even enough for two superstars that off season. Could LeBron be enticed to go to NY if he is going to have a base of Blake Griffin, David Lee, Wilson Chandler, Danilo Galllinari, and maybe someone like D Wade or Joe Johnson? Could the first steps at returning basketball to the mother of all media markets already in the works and will be unveiled tonight when the Knicks win the top pick?

Yeah, I know. I'm a crazy conspiracy theorist!!!

But if the Knicks do win the lottery tonight, how many are going to be calling me crazy tomorrow?

[Rondo_is_better]

If the Knicks win the draft lottery, I'm taking my tinfoil hat and moving to Mexico where they can't trace me.

[cordobes]

But if the Knicks do win the lottery tonight, how many are going to be calling me crazy tomorrow?

Present.

Just out of curiosity, how do you think it's possible to rig the draft lottery, unless there's a collusion between every team in the league? It's ping-pong balls in a bin, teams representatives are in the room and it isn't even the NBA conducting the process but an accounting company.

[cdif911]

If the Knicks win the draft lottery, I'm taking my tinfoil hat and moving to Mexico where they can't trace me.

I'm with ya

[cdif911]

altho if the Knicks win it they'll probably draft some Euro who's out of the league in 2 years...even if they don't win it they'll do that =)

[Roy Hobbs]

I never really understood the "Stern wants the Knicks to win" conspiracies.  The Knicks didn't move up in 2003, 2005, or 2008 when they had lottery picks, or at any time since the Ewing draft.  If Stern is so hell-bent on getting the Knicks championships, wouldn't he have delivered Lebron ('03), CP3 ('05), or Derrick Rose ('08) to the Knicks?  Why is Griffin the one?

[Smitty77]

How about MJ and the Bobcats winning it tonight with only a .7% chance?  Watch out for the unexpected tonight:-)))))

[RebusRankin]

OKC will win so they can select Griffin.

[nickagneta]

But if the Knicks do win the lottery tonight, how many are going to be calling me crazy tomorrow?

Present.

Just out of curiosity, how do you think it's possible to rig the draft lottery, unless there's a collusion between every team in the league? It's ping-pong balls in a bin, teams representatives are in the room and it isn't even the NBA conducting the process but an accounting company.

Actually, I don't.

I don't even believe that the Ewing lottery was fixed.

But my 20 year old son who goes to school with way to many New Yorkers at Umass Amherst was telling me that they are all convinced that Stern and the NBA will do everything and anything to get Lebron into a Knicks uniform. I thought it might make for fun banter.

As for Roy's question about Stern wanting the Knicks to win, I think the whole thing comes down to the NBA needing a presence in New York for financial reasons. Oh the ratings are okay when LeBron and Kobe are on but if NY had a superduper star, the ratig in NEW York would be off the charts come playoff season and that has to mean something.

[Roy Hobbs]

As for Roy's question about Stern wanting the Knicks to win, I think the whole thing comes down to the NBA needing a presence in New York for financial reasons. Oh the ratings are okay when LeBron and Kobe are on but if NY had a superduper star, the ratig in NEW York would be off the charts come playoff season and that has to mean something.

I understand the need to have a contending Knicks team.  If the league is conspiring, though, why not just send Lebron to the Knicks in '03, then? 

[Casperian]

But if the Knicks do win the lottery tonight, how many are going to be calling me crazy tomorrow?

Present.

Just out of curiosity, how do you think it's possible to rig the draft lottery, unless there's a collusion between every team in the league? It's ping-pong balls in a bin, teams representatives are in the room and it isn't even the NBA conducting the process but an accounting company.

Well, there are ways to rig a lottery. Balls with different weights, magnets, pneumatic systems. And a succesful NY Knicks franchise is good for the whole NBA, and the NBA is all about money, from the Clippers to the Wizards, so the "everyone would have to be involved" argument doesnīt really count, imo.

However, I donīt believe these "Knicks get top pick" conspiracy theories.
Wouldnīt it been much better if they won it last year, to have the most exciting PG prospect in the last 20 years under D`Antoni? Or the year before that, a draft with an allegedly game-changing big man and an incredible forward talent in Durant?

No, the lottery isnīt rigged.
If the Knicks win it this year, theyīre just lucky, thatīs it.

[ToppersBsktball10]

well Wilson Chandlers decent haha but who knows i wouldnt be surprised though, stern's that much of a scumbag