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Favors can be an excellent building block for the Nets. High potential player. Can become a defensive monster a la Howard.
How the heck people still believe the lottery is rigged?
Did The Knicks Rig Another NBA Draft Lottery?
http://tedwilliamshead.com/2010/05/1...ery/#more-1945
All the awfulness that was the New Jersey Nets’ 2009-2010 regular season has spilled into their offseason. With their NBA worst 70 losses, the Nets had a 25% to win the NBA Draft Lottery, however it was the Washington Wizards with only a 10.3% chance, that won the number 1 pick. When David Stern did his best Yolanda Vega impersonation, Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov and the Nets were looking at the number 3 pick in the 2010 draft. And as luck N.J. Nets luck would have it, this draft is widely considered to only have two game changing players in John Wall and Evan Turner, so the Nets will be relegated to selecting a good player instead of a possible franchise player. Many mock drafts and experts believe that the Nets will select Derrick Favors, a talented, 6-foot-9 power forward from Georgia Tech. But Favors is not John Wall or Evan Turner, he isn’t the caliber player that will turn around a franchise. Favors also isn’t the type of player who would entice LeBron James to your franchise.
One would wonder if the New York Knicks had anything to do with the Nets dropping to the #3 pick. If the Nets were to select #1 or possibly #2, they would have a chance to draft John Wall. At number three they have no chance of drafting Wall. We all know that Wall played at the University of Kentucky under coach John Calipari. Calipari is good friends with NBA power broker William Wesley (Find out more about William Wesley here). William Wesley is a close confidant of LeBron James. There have been rumors that for a team to sign LeBron they would need to implement Calipari as their head coach. The Nets have a vacancy at head coach and even though Calipari wasn’t a great success the first time he was the coach and was fired by the Nets in 1998, N.J. would come begging and pleading for Calipari, if it meant that they would get LeBron. If the Nets had gotten their hands on Calipari’s former star player in John Wall, they could then hire John Calipari as their head coach. Now that would make the New Jersey Nets as a top destination for LeBron. The Knicks have moved heaven, earth, and what was believed to be unmovable contracts to clear enough cap space to afford them LeBron James and another max salary free agent such as Chris Bosh or Amare Stoudemire. For them to make all these maneuvers and then have the Newark, soon-to-be Brooklyn Nets snatch LeBron James from them would cripple the once prominent franchise. The mass exodus of Knicks fans and their spending dollars to the Brooklyn Nets would severely damage the Knicks marketability for the foreseeable future.
If the Knicks did have a hand in the Nets lottery debacle, this would probably not be the first time they were involved in NBA Draft conspiracy. The 1985 NBA Draft Lottery was believed to be fixed so that the New York Knicks won the lottery and Patrick Ewing. In the video below you will notice when the attorney throws the seven envelopes into the glass drum, he bangs the fourth one against the side of the drum to create a creased corner. The camera seems to pan away from him hitting the envelope into the glass. Then at the :40 mark of the clip, Stern unlocks it and awkwardly reaches inside for the first envelope (the No. 1 pick). He grabs three envelopes that are bunched together, pretends not to look (although he does) and flips the three envelopes so the one on the bottom ends up in his hand. Then he pulls that envelope out, the Knicks envelope. If you look closely as the commish yanks the Knicks envelope out, there’s a noticeable crease in the corner of the envelope. It’s a small crease, but enough of a fold to notice if you’re trying to select a certain envelope, but not big enough to be seen on a 1985 television. These speculations will definitely keep the conspiracy theorists busy for awhile…
Favors can be an excellent building block for the Nets. High potential player. Can become a defensive monster a la Howard.
How the heck people still believe the lottery is rigged?
Screams Butthurt tbh.
Holy , man. When $tern picks picks up the pile and flips it over, you can see the obvious corner fold in it. And when the attourney tosses them in, he does seem to make it a point to toss the fourth one in differently. Why wouldn't $tern simply pick from the top of the list? He seems to be set on picking that one, even flipping the group over to get to it. I've never seen that clip before, obviously, but damn. Makes you think. And the Knicks GM doesn't seem relieved that they got the first pick... He seems relieved that $tern didn't up the scam, lol.
Anyways, as far as this year goes, if the Nets know what's good for them, they'll pick Greg Monroe. , I'd pick Monroe 2nd over Evan turner.
In terms of the value of the #3 pick, no there's no reason to believe it was rigged. In terms of the LeBron Sweepstakes, NJ not getting the top pick ruins them. No John Wall = No shot at LeBron. One less compe or for NY to worry about.
NY should still worry, what players do they have really? They will need more to win then Just Lebron just saying, but I'm going to laugh when everyone is wrong and he stays with the Cavs
If the Knicks have so much power with the league that they can rig up the Draft Lottery, you'd think they would use that power to put a team on the floor that isn't complete dog .
The envelope is creased in the corner because it flopped around in the big plastic ball. Duh.
Like I said, "What David Stern wants, David Stern gets"
I think someone else actually said that and you posted it without a link.
Then why did Stern want the small market Spurs to sweep the Cavs with Lebron?
Exactly.
It was LeBron against the Spurs, basically
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