The TWolves, Pacers, and Jazz would make me have to shut up with my conspiracy belief for a year
REALLY hard to believe in a conspiracy if you understand how the lotto works.
I know this has been debated many times over the years, but the league makes these owners pretty [dang] rich, so the idea that they would shut their pie holes to toe the company line doesn't seem that far fetched.
Money talks bull**** hit walks, the greatest PR disaster the NBA would have faced would be their number one guy (Lebron) tarnishing their image, amazing how the Cavs win the lottery 3 out of 4 years.
The league is bigger than 3 or 4 owners being butthurt that they didn't win the lottery in those years.
Guess what they receive a little Christmas bonus in the mail down the road to smooth things over, happens all the time.
Again... if you understand how the draft lottery works, it's REALLY hard to believe in a conspiracy theory.
As for the idea that they are all willing participants, it's hard to buy that when you realize that the value of these individual businesses are tied heavily to the star power on the team.
There are reps from each team present during the lotto... as well as 5 members of the media. So they'd have to consistently buy off the media as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKI-fToATpQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg-zwcX1sU8
I am fully aware of how the lottery works. I have seen the behind the scenes footage before.
I stated that the owners are fully compensated for going along with the program.
Who chose the 5 media reps, was it the league?
The Bucks sold recently for 550 mil, the Hawks 750 mil, what star power do those franchises have , little or none.
Their values have gone up ten fold over the last decade, just by being part of the show.
Let's get Dan Gilbert's son to be a pawn and have a feel good story about those picks, what a lucky little kid. 
The league and there spin doctors are laughing all the way to the bank.
Have heard that theory before... that the league is basically the WWE and everyone is in on it. The league fixes the lottery. The refs fix the games. The champions are decided.
Fine. If you're the type of person who believes that, just be thankful that the league put Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen on our team in 2008 and fixed the playoffs so we could face off against the Lakers and win a championship. Hopefully at some point the league will decide to give Boston another push. If you subscribe to that tinhattery, might as well just accept and embrace that the NBA is full-blown fraudulent sports entertainment and enjoy it. I don't understand how anyone can take that kind of stance and then act like their favorite franchise is the victim of some grand conspiracy. If everyone is in on it, then everyone is in on it.
The Boston Celtics are top 5 in national popularity. There is incentive for the team to be good. There is incentive for the media to write about them. It's illogical for the Celtics to be intentionally slighted.
I never said that it was rigged against Boston, I said that it is rigged to maintain and increase profits throughout the league.Boston got scheduled for a tonne of national games that season, had the big 3 on covers of season previews, they were being hyped up prior to the season.
The league had nothing to do with putting KG and Ray on the team.
It is a known fact that they try and extend playoffs series whenever possible.
Players have even joked about it over the years.
Read the Jordan rules , Barkley quote about the Bulls - 76ers series.
How many times do road teams have there best defenders get whistled with quick fouls to take them out of the game.you think that is just a coincidence , please.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?autoplay=1&v=5MhmGyZ7KF0Your buddy Bill Simmons called it.
The Lakers were hyped so much with Nash,Gasol,Kobe & Dwight, what would happen if they didn't even make the playoffs?
It is just a big farce, the phantom calls,makeup calls.
How many times have people spoke about Lebron and his lack of fouls being called against him, the guy is one of the most physical players out there and for years only has 1 or 2 called against him,coincidence , please,the only reason the guy gets called in the playoffs is due to fact that they at least want to seem somewhat unbiased in their national TV games in front of a bigger audiences.
Even Larry Bird was all over the league in the 84 finals about game 6 and how they wanted to extend the series for maxuim exposure.
Nothing that they do to get that almighty dollar surprises me.
I just roll my eyes.
Why did Rasheed Wallace get called for all those T's , the guy was not stupid, he knew what their game was, he was just making a point to these frauds , sorry company men.
Go Celtics, get that star player to get those star calls, sell those jerseys and bring home banner 18
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