Bill Simmons
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I might know Mike Smeltz.
Keep going.
It's obvious the Warriors are winning the lottery.
All the factors line up.
Adam Silver wants to punish the tanking teams.
Well, the Warriors aren't a tanking team.
The league doesn't want to waste Steph's last few years.
They want to keep the Warriors a marquee franchise.
Gifting the Warriors the top pick lets the team either add Peterson or DeBansa to juice the Warriors core or they trade it like the Cavs did for Giannis or LeBron signs there.
Steph, Giannis, LeBron, Draymond, and Bronny as a starting five, he suggested.
I love this.
So, Golden State, if they lose the first playing game, they would have a 2% chance for number one.
They would have a 9.4% chance for top four.
Your thoughts?
Well, I was thinking funniest...
funniest rigged lottery outcomes where we'd be like, Oh my God, I can't believe they did that.
That was so blatant.
Gold States won Indiana winning, even though they have like 50, 50 odds to get it, but to bone over the Clippers from getting a pick between five and nine, that would be pretty funny.
Dallas getting it again.
What if they just won back to back?