Barstool Nate Believes The NBA Draft Lottery Is Rigged I BMitch & Finlay

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Barstool Nate is beyond frustrated after the Wizards fell all the way to No. 6 in the NBA Draft Lottery.

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00:00We can talk is the NBA lottery rigged probably,

00:03but, I mean, why are they rigging it against us?

00:06We need something for this poor Wizards team.

00:09And they have such a good young core,

00:12and Cooper Flagg was just supposed to put us over the top,

00:14and just now we have the sixth pick, and who knows, who cares?

00:18It's just more doom and gloom for our poor Wiz.

00:21Yeah, I mean, I wanted to dive deeper on that

00:22because we had John Hollinger on earlier,

00:25and of course he's going to give the more correct answer of,

00:27you know, politically correct answer to saying it's not rigged,

00:30and he obviously has had the inner working,

00:32so I understand his answer there,

00:34but you just look at all the coincidences,

00:36or, you know, quote-unquote coincidences,

00:39where Dallas does this, and then they get Cooper Flagg,

00:42and you just go all throughout history.

00:44I mean, regardless of whether it is or isn't,

00:48they don't do themselves any favors by how this thing goes on,

00:51and then 1.8% chance, and they pick first,

00:54and the Wizards had a 14% chance, and they're picking sixth.

00:58It's just absurd.

00:59If we lost a billion games over the last two years,

01:02we get con canoople.

01:04It's just like, what are we even doing at this point?

01:07Like, just blow up the NBA and start over again.

01:10I'm just, it's so frustrating.

01:12I just know how many people in D.C. love basketball

01:16and just are dying for something good to happen to this franchise,

01:20and then, you know, we do the whole tank thing

01:24and bring in the right GM and this and that

01:26and have the young core, and we're just dying to get Cooper Flagg,

01:30and they just hand it to Dallas.

01:33It's insane.

01:34That's what's so weird to me is the fact that

01:37if you're going to gift it to someone,

01:39this place is a hoop place.

01:41Like, the DMV loves hoops, and I get that it's more high school,

01:44but it's because the professional landscape has been so bad.

01:46The Wiz have had juice at various times.

01:49The Gill years, like, Wizards games had serious juice.

01:53And even the John Wall era, dude.

01:55Like, when things go right, or even, like, moderately right,

01:59like, oh, we're competing for the five seed.

02:01Hell yeah, I'm in.

02:03Like, there can be real excitement in that building.

02:07I have seen it.

02:08And I don't think it's rigged.

02:13Wake up, JP. Wake up.

02:15All right, all right, all right.

02:17But I also understand why it's so easy to think it's rigged.

02:21Like, it's just, there are so many things that happen

02:25at such an outrageous...

02:27You mean, like, Cleveland getting LeBron?

02:29Yeah, I'm sure that was coincidence.

02:33But if you're the league, wouldn't you rather the Knicks get LeBron?

02:36Like, the problem is, with conspiracy theories,

02:39you don't have to, like, really be able to hold water.

02:43You just have to point something that's interesting

02:45and then pull the thread.

02:46But even if it's not the conspiracy theories,

02:48it's the fact that the Wizards had a 50% chance

02:52after being the second-worst team in the league last year,

02:54which I was totally on board with,

02:56the way that they were going about it.

02:57They had a 50% chance of picking fifth or sixth.

03:00Like, why is that even possible?

03:02Or why is that even such a high percentage,

03:04regardless of whether you think they're gifting Cooper Flagg to Dallas or not?

03:08I hate the structure of the new lottery.

03:11I'm with you here.

03:12If you truly want to talk why they would rig it against the Wizards if they did,

03:17it would be to say,

03:18hey, look, tanking doesn't work.

03:20Like, that would be their reason.

03:22And, you know,

03:23if they go, eh, it's just the Wizards.

03:25We can screw them over.

03:26Nobody will care.

03:27But it's just so flawed because look at the teams that were there, right?

03:30The best chances were Charlotte, Utah, and Washington.

03:34And they say, well, you don't, tanking shouldn't be encouraged.

03:36And I understand the premise there, except for the fact,

03:39how were the Wizards then supposed to get a superstar

03:41in a superstar-driven league?

03:43Kevin Durant was probably the best opportunity

03:46they had to get a superstar here in free agency.

03:48He didn't want to come here.

03:49They're not trading for someone because you trade for a superstar.

03:52They only become available because they have baggage,

03:55whether they're old, whether they're injured,

03:57whether they're disgruntled.

03:58And so the best way to do it is through the draft.

04:00And then the NBA looks at you and says,

04:02screw you for trying to get a top pick.

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