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cool story, hansel
In case some of you are unfamiliar with statistics or have a proclivity to believe conspiracy theories...the NBA lottery does not provide teams with the worst record a good chance to get the number one pick, only the best chance to claim the first pick.
Most of you who believe the lottery is rigged should look at the record of the nba lottery: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_Draft_Lottery
For those of you too ignorant/lazy to read through the simple wikipedia article, I will provide some simple cliffnotes:
- since introducing the weighted lottery system in 1990, the team with the worst record received the first pick only twice (8.7%)
- statistically speaking, the first round pick falls the the 4th seed on average
- I am drunk and still smarter than then the people claiming the NBA fixes the draft.
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cool story, hansel
Correction: The team with the worst record has won the #1 three times (1990 Nets, 2003 Cavs, 2004 Magic). But yeah, it's been rare.
Tbh it's not as if the draft classes post-Admiral and pre-Shaq were worth it
So why did the NBA decide to give us Tim Duncan instead of the Celtics?
Weird-ass way to rig a lottery.
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