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  • 5/13/2025
Sure, it benefited the Mavs for the first time ever, but this year's NBA Draft Lottery has a lot of NBA fans convinced the whole thing is rigged, especially after the team traded Luka Doncic earlier this year. What do you think? Kevin seems convinced the whole thing was set up months ago.
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00:00you know who the ceo of the dallas mavericks is it's rick welts all right rick welts
00:22was the person in charge of the nba draft lottery back in 1985
00:29which if you'll remember that is very conspiracy in terms of people thinking that was the frozen
00:38envelope patrick ewing to the nicks lottery and so i can't help but let my mind wander when i'm like
00:45hold on so the guy who was our ceo now might have been at the center of a draft conspiracy 40 years
00:53ago now i realize cooler heads might be like that wasn't rigged then and it's not rigged now and i
00:58get that but i'm on the other side i have bought into this conspiracy theory i told mike yesterday
01:05i now believe that the collusion with the nba was we gotta get luka or maybe it was any number of
01:13stars but they were like we gotta get a big star to los angeles maybe because of the departure of
01:19lebron sagging tv ratings whatever you think the reason is and maybe they hit up a couple of
01:23different clubs but the mavericks bid on it and this was the rest of the deal i now believe that

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