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dubaholic1 Star Player
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fiendishoc Star Player
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Posted: Tue May 17, 2016 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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They do have the highest ever odds of getting #1 I think. |
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http://deadspin.com/sixers-claim-that-dikembe-mutombo-didnt-reveal-a-grand-1777204187?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Deadspin_twitter
Quote: | Sixers Claim That Dikembe Mutombo Didn't Reveal A Grand NBA Draft Conspiracy
The NBA draft lottery is at 8 p.m. EDT tonight in New York City. At 4:36 p.m., Dikembe Mutombo tweeted his congratulations to his former team, the Philadelphia 76ers, for winning the lottery and “grabbing the #1 spot.” Mutombo apologized and clarified that he had tweeted too soon and was just getting amped for the lottery, as I assume all Sixers fans are right now.
Dikembe Mutombo Deletes Tweet Congratulating 76ers On Winning NBA Draft Lottery
The NBA draft lottery is tonight at 8 p.m., but Dikembe Mutombo’s Twitter account couldn’t wait…
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Mutombo is a known humanitarian and he’s been awarded three honorary doctorate degrees, so the reasonable takeaway here is that he simply mistweeted and did not accidentally spill the beans about some grand NBA draft lottery conspiracy. However, being a naturally suspicious bunch, we reached out to the Sixers’ (very helpful) PR director Michael Preston and asked if Mutombo accidentally pulled the lid off a damning, vast draft lottery-rigging scandal.
Patrick 6:03 PM
to: michaelpreston
Hi Michael,
I am a journalist with Deadspin, and I’m curious about Dikembe Mutombo’s tweet congratulating the team on winning the draft lottery. Did he accidentally break news that the team had found out they’d won?
Thanks
Michael Preston 6:28 PM
to: me
Hi Patrick - Believe Dikembe followed up with a tweet explaining that he got ahead of himself looking forward to tonight based the probability. The actual drawing has yet to take place. I’m on-site here in NYC and anxiously awaiting the outcome tonight like everyone else (including Dikembe). Thanks!
Patrick 6:31 PM
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Okay cool, so, just to be clear, you’re saying that Dikembe Mutombo does not have proprietary information regarding a grand conspiracy to rig the lottery?
Michael 6:51 PM
to: me
That is correct.
Well, there it is; we would prefer to think Preston isn’t telling the truth, but we’ll all find out soon enough (unless Mutombo’s tweet inadvertently leads the powers that be to change up their carefully-laid plans, in which case, who knows what could happen?). |
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Huey Lewis & The News Star Player
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rwongega Franchise Player
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Posted: Tue May 17, 2016 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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Dikembe revealed the fix |
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Posted: Tue May 17, 2016 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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rwongega wrote: | Next week's headline: Dikembe Mutombo mysteriously found dead in hotel room. |
I hope not 2016 has been brutal already.... |
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fiendishoc wrote: | They do have the highest ever odds of getting #1 I think. |
Aren't their odds of getting the #1 the same as any other team with the worse record in previous years (after the odds changes post Webber draft)? |
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Posted: Wed May 18, 2016 10:07 am Post subject: |
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To be fair to conspiracy theorists, NBA does have an incentive to fix things like this to make sure certain markets are competitive. |
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Posted: Wed May 18, 2016 10:10 am Post subject: |
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shnxx wrote: | To be fair to conspiracy theorists, NBA does have an incentive to fix things like this to make sure certain markets are competitive. |
Then the Lakers would get the #1 pick every year. |
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Posted: Wed May 18, 2016 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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shnxx wrote: | To be fair to conspiracy theorists, NBA does have an incentive to fix things like this to make sure certain markets are competitive. |
Eh. If you believe in conspiracy theories, you don't need any logic or reasoning to justify them to yourself. That's why conspiracy theorists can always rationalize why contradictory outcomes are part of the same conspiracy. |
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rwongega Franchise Player
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vanexelent wrote: | shnxx wrote: | To be fair to conspiracy theorists, NBA does have an incentive to fix things like this to make sure certain markets are competitive. |
Then the Lakers would get the #1 pick every year. |
Well, we don't know what benefits the league as a whole.
Perhaps they found that the league revenue goes up when there are more small market teams that are competitive? Who knows.
I'm not a conspiracy theory thumper and I don't think that's what is going on here with Mutombo (can you imagine that you'd run a league-wide conspiracy and Mutombo is one of the guys you let in on the plan??), but unlike an international or nation-wide conspiracy in the governments, this is just a (albeit very big) basketball league.
Fixing something like the draft wouldn't need more than 2-20 people to keep quiet.
Certainly not outside the realm of possibility. |
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Posted: Wed May 18, 2016 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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doesn't make sense. the other teams wouldn't allow the fix. mark cuban, for instance |
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Posted: Wed May 18, 2016 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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Just imagine if Magic was the one that tweeted congratulations to Lakers for #1 pick and we got it. |
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rwongega Franchise Player
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Posted: Wed May 18, 2016 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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Wouldn't the lottery played live be a highly rated event? I am so surprised they haven't done this yet. _________________ Because we're better than you! |
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Posted: Wed May 18, 2016 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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Oliver Reed wrote: | Wouldn't the lottery played live be a highly rated event? I am so surprised they haven't done this yet. |
It's in reverse order. That's why they don't.
People will stop watching after the first three because at that point the order will be known for the rest.
By showing it in the order they do now, there is "excitement" up until the very last two announcements, the top two picks. _________________ Kobe |
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 9:07 am Post subject: |
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rwongega wrote: | Next week's headline: Dikembe Mutombo mysteriously found dead in hotel room. |
Ruled a suicide by gun shot to the back of the head. |
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 9:08 am Post subject: |
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Do they draw the balls live? I was just listening on the radio? I thought they might do the lottery ball drawing in a back room with the reps from each team and then they go on air and do the countdown. |
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