[Zach Lowe] Inside the Drawing Room, Lottery Reactions, and Heartbreak for Boston With Bill Simmons {Riveting Account of the Live Lottery from Zach Lowe. The Bulls needed the last ball to be an 8. It was a 7.}
May 13, 2025
Also worth noting: Unless you think Zach is making up this whole story, there is no way they can fake this thing. Unless you can cook up some elaborate scheme with weighted ping pong balls.
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Man I didn’t need to see this 😭💔
The idea the lottery is currently rigged makes me think most people just don’t understand how odds work. I say this because I do not understand how odds works and think the lottery is rigged.
I think it’s rigged because every team that trades a star to team with LeBron in LA immediately gets a 1st overall pick. Also you can never tell me that the AD draft wasnt part of the sale for New Orleans
Is it possible the bulls are cursed? Like, yeah they have probably the worst owner in sports and an incompetent front office, but it seems like they’re always on the wrong end of stuff like this.
I find it way more plausible that the NBA can rig the ping pong balls than the idea that the Mavs luck into the 1st pick the same season they gift LA Luka to team with LeBron. That shit jas happened way too many times to be random chance.
I find it way more plausible that the NBA can rig the ping pong balls than the idea that the Mavs luck into the 1st pick the same season they gift LA Luka to team with LeBron. That shit jas happened way too many times to be random chance.
I became an NBA lottery conspiracy theorist the day that the Bulls won the Derrick Rose sweepstakes. There’s just too much going on for that to be a coincidence, or blind luck, in my opinion. That one doesn’t pass the smell test.
FUUUUUUUUCK! Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck!!!!!!!!! At least we’re not picking 7th again /s
I just think the Luka trade was so absurdly and obviously stupid and their explanations for it so obviously nonsensical that I genuinely find the backroom deal draft rigging explanation more plausible.
And there are plenty of ways you could if not outright rig the balls, heavily bias them.
this literally means nothing. a lot of teams were one ball away from winning
So many people even half believing in this grand conspiracy is why we are cooked and we keep electing obvious charlatans just because they tell us our insane half baked thoughts are just as worthy as actual facts.
If you think the lottery is rigged, you have to take the good ( D ROSE) with the bad (Mavs fucking us). I just think the universe is against us. We weren’t getting that pick if it was a 20 sided die and the Mavs needed a 20.
They would have rolled a 20
13 comments
Man I didn’t need to see this 😭💔
The idea the lottery is currently rigged makes me think most people just don’t understand how odds work. I say this because I do not understand how odds works and think the lottery is rigged.
I think it’s rigged because every team that trades a star to team with LeBron in LA immediately gets a 1st overall pick. Also you can never tell me that the AD draft wasnt part of the sale for New Orleans
Is it possible the bulls are cursed? Like, yeah they have probably the worst owner in sports and an incompetent front office, but it seems like they’re always on the wrong end of stuff like this.
I find it way more plausible that the NBA can rig the ping pong balls than the idea that the Mavs luck into the 1st pick the same season they gift LA Luka to team with LeBron. That shit jas happened way too many times to be random chance.
I find it way more plausible that the NBA can rig the ping pong balls than the idea that the Mavs luck into the 1st pick the same season they gift LA Luka to team with LeBron. That shit jas happened way too many times to be random chance.
I became an NBA lottery conspiracy theorist the day that the Bulls won the Derrick Rose sweepstakes. There’s just too much going on for that to be a coincidence, or blind luck, in my opinion. That one doesn’t pass the smell test.
FUUUUUUUUCK! Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck!!!!!!!!! At least we’re not picking 7th again /s
I just think the Luka trade was so absurdly and obviously stupid and their explanations for it so obviously nonsensical that I genuinely find the backroom deal draft rigging explanation more plausible.
And there are plenty of ways you could if not outright rig the balls, heavily bias them.
this literally means nothing. a lot of teams were one ball away from winning
So many people even half believing in this grand conspiracy is why we are cooked and we keep electing obvious charlatans just because they tell us our insane half baked thoughts are just as worthy as actual facts.
If you think the lottery is rigged, you have to take the good ( D ROSE) with the bad (Mavs fucking us). I just think the universe is against us. We weren’t getting that pick if it was a 20 sided die and the Mavs needed a 20.
They would have rolled a 20
Ok I was ok yesterday but this made that hurt