Adam Silver
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760 appearances
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7 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 26 Jun
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Okay.
So I would never rig the draft lottery.
And my predecessor, David Stern, never rigged the draft lottery.
Although there were many, as you guys know, rumors, stories around the frozen envelope for years that I commit.
It's entirely on the level.
It's audited every year by fancy accounting firms and
It's like it's and there's video of what happens in the room.
So I would never engage in anything like that.
Um, you're from Chicago.
Yeah.
We got a lot of guys.
Let's round 1.8 to 2%, all right?
So the team with the best odds in our current system has a 14% chance.
and Dallas had a 2% chance.
So I get it, you know, 2% is 2%, 14% is 14%, but it's not like when people hear lottery, they make it seem like something that was won in like the mega million or whatever.
No, it's 2% and 2% things happen, you know, and 14% things happen.
So, but having said all that,
This will be the last year of the draft lottery under this current system.
Okay.
all right uh interesting idea i i just to defend the league for a second on the 65 games it wasn't quite arbitrary i mean so that's 80 of games in the season and that was collectively bargained with the players association again it's zero sum there's gonna be same number of players who are all nba there's going to be a defensive player of the year mvp etc and the feeling was
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