Because the NBA can say and do what they please , unless they show it I will always think it's rigged.
As a non-Brooklyn fan, I still wanted you guys to get Davis. Would have been cool to have a couple NY teams set up good for the future. If it was rigged I think Stern would have thrown a top 3 to Brooklyn so they could have kept it.
I'm trying to think of a plan B if Deron left but it would require signing a shit load of players. Sign Steve Nash to 2 years 15 million (7.5 mil per year) Extend Wallace to 3 years 30 million (10 mil per year) Re-sign Lopez to 4 years 44 million (11 mil per year) Sign Chris Kaman to 3 years 25.5 million (8.5 mil per year) We have about 39 million in cap space (I believe), those FAs take up 37 million. Having a roster of Nash Brooks Wallace Lopez (move him to PF) Kaman Would be solid, not flashy at all but solid. Probably a 6-8 seed, although its nowhere near exciting. Thats without including a possible sign in trade if Deron wants to leave.
I'd love to have two teams reppin NY in the playoffs. It'll be interesting to see how the battle lines are drawn outside of NYC. Will NJ and LI root for Brooklyn, or will the Knicks still run the metro area in general until BK starts playing well on a consistent basis?
You got reps from all 30 teams and more importantly independent auditors who certainly don't want to lose their CPA license...
Well does auditor necessarily mean CPA? I work for a company that has bill auditors and there's no way those fucking mooks have CPAs.
My theory if the NBA lottery was rigged was that the Knicks when they kept their picks would have won it more, TOR and MIL and CLE would have NEVER won them.
Nets fans have no luck...who trades a lottery pick for Gerald Wallace?? They could have had Barnes/Sullinger/Jones I guess they want pieces to lure FA, no rebuild mode anymore...They need to trade Lopez and re-do that roster with new faces
Independent auditors (like the ones used by the NBA) are CPAs... These are the type of auditors that go over a company's books, procedures, governance and subject to various national and state laws in addition to private organization crap. No rigging occurs, even though many NBA fans think so.
Ernst and Young is the auditing company that watches over the NBA lottery process. It depends what level of staff was watching over the process, but I know for a fact that a lot of the associates that work for Ernst and Young are not CPA's. It's the same across the big four. Most seniors are CPA's, and I would imagine that all managers are CPA's. But all of that is missing the point. CPA's are professional accountants with proficiencies in tax, audit, and other financial services. They know next to nothing about the technology of a lottery machine, and would not be able to catch any mechanism that would compromise the way a lottery machine works. Now if Ernst and Young hired technology specialists to help them, it would be a different story. But the fact that the lottery is performed behind closed doors is very sketchy. With all the "security" that the NBA has with the auditors and team reps from every team, you would think that they would be confident in showing the drawing. All I know is that if Orlando wins the first overall pick next year after Howard leaves, you would be a fool to think the lottery is not rigged.
Every year fans claim the lottery is rigged, regardless of which team wins it. And every year people yell rigged after the lottery, but are curiously unable to predict the results accurately.
Exactly. We got one break 27 years ago and people still act like there's some kind of conspiracy. Never mind the fact the NBA fucked us a hundred times while Ewing was here and we haven't had much luck since then. If they were going to rig it this year, why Portland? Wouldn't they want to get Brooklyn off on a good foot and hope to have two good New York teams?
Portland is going to get really good. They should trade one of their lottery picks , like the 11th pick for savy young player that they need. Or they can draft Kendall Marshall with 11th pick and get a star at 7
Well Bleacher Report agrees with me on the conspiracy thing so I'm changing my stance, there is absolutely 100% no chance in hell this thing is rigged.
Good! I take shit all the time for supporting the Devils and Islanders (Im from New Jersey the Devils take the cake) but as a less-than die hard fan of Hockey I feel like I should be able to support two local teams. (I would love to be an Islander fan, because I'm sick in the head, but I can't root for a team from Long Island over a team from New Jersey). Hopefully if people start doing this with basketball it's more justifiable?
I'm anything but a "die hard" basketball fan. I like the game but feel like the NBA can be pretty lame... same few teams always winning, players being taken care of by refs, etc. But for Brooklyn to get a legit professional sports franchise for me is incredible. Lived here my whole life and never thought I'd see it happen. I got a Nets hat a few week ago and I've been wearing it ever since. It's a pride thing. The fact that the arena is bringing new events too like concerts, wrestling, etc. is amazing. I'll always have a place for the Knicks but the Nets might be my favorite.
:lol: What's funny about the rigged thing is, as I've said, no one does any good predicting the "rigged" events. Remember crooked ref Tim Donaghy? After writing his book full of lies, he went "tout" (means selling your picks), claiming of course he could tell you what would happen because the other refs were crooked too. What happened? He was an utter failure. A complete loser. A bad gambler and a scumbag. And the people so certain that the lottery is rigged don't seem to know who it will be rigged for. They just say it's rigged, and then when they see which team won, they explain why it would be rigged for that team (they curiously couldn't predict that team before the lottery). I think it's very unlikely that the lottery is "rigged", and if it is, the NBA has been doing a terrible job. Look at the cities that have won top picks and explain to me why the Knicks haven't had much luck in the lottery and why the league let such an incompetent ruin the Knicks for so many years. The league doesn't want a NY team to be successful? Duncan and Robinson were two of the biggest prizes ever and San Antonio won both of those lotteries. I bet no one was predicting those years that the NBA would rig it for San Antonio.
This is a great point. If you say it's rigged and you know why, you should be able to call it beforehand.
