Zion's contest proves the NBA does not handle anything



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If NBA Commissioner Adam Silver was forced to swallow truth serum and score a list of teams, in order to win the NBA draw last Tuesday and get the rights to Zion Williamson or Ja Morant, here is a general estimate of how it would be:

1. New York

2. Los Angeles Lakers

3. Chicago

4. Washington

5. Atlanta

6. Dallas

7. Miami

8. Phoenix

9. Cleveland

10. Minnesota

11. (tie) Charlotte / Sacramento / Vipers of the Rio Grande Valley

14. (tie) Memphis / New Orleans / Do we still have a team in Vancouver?

Yet, teams that finished # 1 and # 2 are likely to get the two most promising prospects for scouts, and supporters and sponsors flout the most?

The pelicans of New Orleans and the Memphis Grizzlies.

The two smaller markets of the league. The two least valuable franchises. Two cities that the NBA could essentially treat as Oscar fillers – you're lucky to have a team, but you're here only because we have a schedule of 82 games and that someone must be the Washington Generals, shut up or we will deceive another municipality by building a new stadium.

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Zion Williamson of Duke arrives for the draw of the NBA Tuesday in Chicago. (AP Photo / Nuccio DiNuzzo)

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So, once and for all, can we please put aside the ridiculous concept that the NBA is "repairing" or "faking" anything, or even that it is not? supposed opinion of the league office really weighs on something, especially the lottery project?

Conspiracy theories are fun and NBA conspiracy theories, because they are unimportant and have no impact on the real world, are particularly fun.

They are just not true.

Even the most conspirators among us would agree that Silver is, at the very least, a competent commissioner. Many would judge his intelligence, his keen sense of work and his ability to move things further than that, in fact.

Well, why, if he is so good at everything else, would it be so bad to deceive the draw that he found himself with Zion in New Orleans and Ja in Memphis?

Look, if he wanted that to be done for the Knicks or the Lakers, it would have been done.

In doing so, you risk a glamorous dream job, which earns tens of millions of dollars a year for decades in a federal prison, while going down in history as a crazy sportsman of all time. But hey, if you really believe he was obsessed with help in New York, why did not he do it?

The NBA would like to conquer the biggest markets? Of course, probably. It's an affair after all. Still, we have one final square this year featuring Portland, Milwaukee and Toronto. Why did not the so-called league-controlled referees help Philadelphia and Boston? The Sixers needed, literally, another loose ball foul and won the seventh game. One. Did not arrive

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Sometimes the games are decided by the smart wickets and the rebound mode of the ball (lottery or leather) or, in the case of Kawhi Leonard, rebounds rebounding.

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Perhaps Adam Silver also likes to drink powerful hurricanes early in the morning on a downtown street and is at risk of being charged to make sure that New Orleans and Memphis, places that are proud to offer such an experience, are relevant

That's about all the conspirators have right now. Maybe they should put a G League team in Roswell.

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