2025 NBA Draft Lottery Thread

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Posted on: Mon, 05/12/2025 - 2:50am #1268205

OhCanada-
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Ideally I would like to see Toronto win the lottery, trade Ingram and other picks and assets for Giannis and then wait for SGA to get upset with OKC for not resigning their players and demand a trade. Realistically though Brooklyn is going to win the lottery, San Antoniom or Houston is going to move into the top 4. Thats my prediction. They need Flagg in a big American market.
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Posted on: Mon, 05/12/2025 - 3:52am #1268207

NorrinRadd
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I hope the order of the first 7 are 1 HOU 2 SAN 3 SAN 4 DAL (All Texas) 5 TOR 6 BKN 7 OKC
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Posted on: Mon, 05/12/2025 - 4:22am #1268208

Hitster
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If Spurs get 2 and 3 who do they take?
Would Houston take 2 and 3 for 1?
I’d like Toronto to be in top 4 to keep Oh Canada happy. Utah winning the lottery I’m okay with. Maybe Chicago gets in the top 4 and lets say Philly to give them a boost. I don’t want Houston to get a top 4 pick as it is via the Suns. But otherwise pretty neutral,
If Giannis is in play then things become interesting but any deal won’t happen before draft night I’d guess. The Pelicans could be watching closely as they have rights to swap for 26 and 27 I think.
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Posted on: Mon, 05/12/2025 - 6:19am #1268213

OhCanada-
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This is fucking bullshit.
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Posted on: Mon, 05/12/2025 - 6:25am #1268214

NorrinRadd
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rigged??? Dallas lets go of Luka and gets the first pick…
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Posted on: Mon, 05/12/2025 - 6:26am #1268215

BothTeamsPlayedHard-
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Let the conspiracy theories fly!
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Posted on: Mon, 05/12/2025 - 6:26am #1268216

OhCanada-
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Fucking rigged. I fucking knew it. They made a deal with the owners top send Luka to LA for the #1 pick. Its fucking fake and Im done with it.
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Posted on: Mon, 05/12/2025 - 6:45am #1268217

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OhCanada, even if they threw in the top overall pick, it still wasn’t equal value for Luka. The league will probably post the boring video of the actual lottery process on their youtube page shortly. I’m pretty sure it has happened before.
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Posted on: Mon, 05/12/2025 - 7:07am #1268218

Hitster
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Cooper has potential to be better than Luka iMO.
Luka and AD as a frontcourt is very exciting.
I guess the Spurs take Harper and run him and Fox as their backcourt. They look legit now.
Philly can have a look at Ace, VJ and Tre.
NOP can add a very good player at 4.
Utah will still get a quality guy at 5.
Toronto falling to 9th could make getting Maluach or Queen an issue. They have the pick via Pacers so could possibly trade up.
I’ve got to adjust my first round mock and I do promise to get a 2nd round one up this week too.
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Posted on: Mon, 05/12/2025 - 7:18am #1268219

OhCanada-
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BTPH works for the NBA for sure. This confirms it.
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Posted on: Mon, 05/12/2025 - 7:29am #1268220

BothTeamsPlayedHard-
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No, I just have fully embraced my love for bad but trying teams moving up past the tank armies in the lottery. If the Sixers had to give their pick to the Thunder, it would have been perfect.
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Posted on: Mon, 05/12/2025 - 7:37am #1268221

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Okay I’ve calmed down a bit but I’m gonna tell you why I’m upset now.
It doesn’t upset me that Toronto ended up with the 9th pick. It doesn’t even matter where Toronto picks. The Raptors have a thorough international scouting regiment in place that rivals any North American sports franchise and has been scouting all of this years draft prospects for years and has a complete analysis on them that I highly doubt the 76ers, Nets, Pelicans etc. have. They also pick players that fit their development system so they will be fine at 9.
What upsets me is as a consumer and active audience member or participant I am being told that Dallas had a 1.8 percent chance at winning the lottery. 50 to 1 odds. And they won. And then you have all these broadcasters literally saying things like “the world works in mysterious ways” and trying to sell me on how this thing isnt rigged. And the audacity to give the Spurs the 2nd pick on top of that.
This is #1 bullshit.
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- Posted on: Mon, 05/12/2025 - 5:01pm #1268239
  
  Gronounours
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  “Dallas had a 1.8 percent chance at winning the lottery. 50 to 1 odds. And they won.”
  So what. Coincidences are part of life, and only seem “suspicious” because we don’t make a mental note each time nothing unexpected happens. Our brain is bad at statistics, and tends to see patterns where there are none, that’s all.
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  - Posted on: Tue, 05/13/2025 - 2:48am #1268243
    
    OhCanada-
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    But it happens every three years. Pelicans get Zion when they trade Davis to LA. Rose to his hometown Toronto. Seattle gets KD when relocating to OKC. Suns got the 1st pick when they sold. Lebron to hometown Cleveland. Itzs just too convienient.
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Posted on: Mon, 05/12/2025 - 7:37am #1268222

Hitster
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Cooper pretty much nailed on to be RoY if he plays full season I’d think. He will do a fair bit of ball carrying and could be 2nd top scorer behind AD on Dallas roster.
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Posted on: Mon, 05/12/2025 - 7:39am #1268223

OhCanada-
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Im not gonna lie though I like the fit with Flagg in Dallas. I dont mind the Spurs getting as much assets or talent around Wemby as possible because I enjoy watching him play. So it should defenitely be entertaining.
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Posted on: Mon, 05/12/2025 - 8:26am #1268227

blazermann322
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Can’t believe the mavs won , I haven’t commented in years damn
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Posted on: Mon, 05/12/2025 - 12:50pm #1268238

Heroescantdie
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Me too, I haven’t comment in ages, but wow. Maybe commish agreed to trade Luka to La La Land for a bigger market and Nico agreed with a guarantee of Flagg. Lol, Wow, portland, Utah, wiz and others will still be bad, Welp, I think we will see them for the Dybantsa Peterson sweepstakes
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Posted on: Mon, 05/12/2025 - 11:53pm #1268241

BothTeamsPlayedHard-
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCxgXS7EBI0
It won’t stop the conspiracy theories as long as there are podcasts, but it at least makes the conspiracy theories more and more absurd.
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Posted on: Tue, 05/13/2025 - 3:47am #1268246

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Ainge will take as long as it takes to rebuild Utah, Washington are in early rebuild too. They got Sarr last year and will add a good player this year. Portland were above 0.500 for the 2nd half of the season and have some good young players. They will have cap space in due course too,
I don’t believe conspiracy theories as the likes of Chicago would have had more draft luck in recent years if that was the case. The Knicks haven’t won the draft in 40 years or is that because no-one likes their owner.
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Posted on: Tue, 05/13/2025 - 12:08pm #1268274

Cynthia
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I had to come out of retirement for this one. RIGGED
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- Posted on: Tue, 05/13/2025 - 12:13pm #1268275
  
  NorrinRadd
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  Hahahaha!!!! I was hoping your OKC would pick 7th…
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