With the rights to Zion Williamson at stake, having the Pelicans and Grizzlies defy the odds to get the first and second overall picks doesn't seem like the ideal outcome for league executives, but that didn't stop some determined conspiracy theorists.
NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum announces that the New Orleans Pelicans won the first pick in the draft. By Des Bieler Des Bieler Sports reporter covering national topics, including fantasy football, as well as supporting coverage of D.C.-area teams Email Bio Follow May 15 at 12:33 AM When Tuesday’s NBA draft lottery show reached the point where the Knicks and Lakers were among just four teams left in the running for the No. 1 pick, conspiracy theorists were in full throat.
In other words, it doesn’t appear that Tuesday brought the ideal outcome for league executives. All of which leaves the question: Still think the draft lottery is rigged?— Josh Eberley 🇨🇦 May 15, 2019 It’s a question that, unfortunately for the NBA, merits asking, because an awful lot of people not otherwise inclined to don tinfoil hats seem to be of the opinion that the league has, in fact, manipulated outcomes in the past to its perceived benefit.
Among those completely convinced the latter result would come to pass was ESPN analyst and former NBA player Richard Jefferson, who said on “The Jump” a few hours before the lottery show aired, “I guarantee the Knicks will get the No. 1 pick in the draft. … Knick fans, I’m telling you — set up the party, get everything going, start buying the jerseys, you guys are going to get Zion Williamson.”
— Bryan Kalbrosky May 15, 2019 And it’s not like the Knicks haven’t been in dire need of some good fortune, if not divine intervention, given that the team has the NBA’s worst record over the past 18 years. So it seems awfully strange that a league supposedly eager to arrange things to its benefit, with headquarters in New York, wouldn’t throw its biggest market a bone at any point in the past 34 years.
Along those lines, in the Pelicans and Grizzlies getting the first two picks over the Knicks and Lakers, some claimed they saw the ever-devious hand of the NBA trying to throw everyone off the scent. As such, that amounted to a reply to this tweeted request from The Athletic’s David Aldridge: “I would LOVE to hear all your conspiracy theories about how the NBA rigged this for New Orleans and Memphis to go 1-2 in the draft rather than two of its seminal franchises.
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