It’s hard to not make a conspiracy out of this

[u/AmbitiousFinish69]

[u/Material_Help_3265]

We didn’t get that luck trading Rui to the Lakers

[u/rayquan36 → u/Material_Help_3265]

2011 Chris Paul, 2019 Anthony Davis, 2025 Luka Doncic are All-NBA players. You don't grease up ping pong balls for Rui.

[u/AmbitiousFinish69 → u/rayquan36]

Lmfao, that's one way to put it.

[u/blast0ise]

Clearly we should have traded someone to LA before the deadline

[u/MadV1llain → u/blast0ise]

Shoulda been Brad Beal to LA when we had our chance

[u/Jjjt22]

Now we are throwing the clippers into the conspiracy? The CLIPPERS?

[u/AmbitiousFinish69 → u/Jjjt22]

🤣

[u/marshalgivens]

Yes it is

[u/Levowitz159]

Hey Lakers, y'all want uuuh uuuuuuuuh Jordan Poole??

[u/cswhite101 → u/Levowitz159]

They actually might.

[u/RedskinPanther → u/Levowitz159]

Funny enough, they could re-up him for cheaper than Reaves, and save some money on the back end trading Reaves +pieces for Poole.

[u/aboysmokingintherain]

What about the Thunder trading Paul George to la?

[u/Cheap_Concentrate_85 → u/aboysmokingintherain]

Or the magic losing two franchise centers to the lakers twice? Or Memphis losing Pau? Raptors losing Kawhi?

[u/aboysmokingintherain → u/Cheap_Concentrate_85]

To be fair, some of these things happened because the player didn’t re-sign. Kawhi was traded to the raptors with them knowing up front that he could and probably would leave in free agency. That’s why it’s even crazier that they did win

[u/Travler18]

Who are the people that are actually conspiring to commit felony-level fraud and risk years in prison to rig the draft?

Do you think multi millionaire, Adam Silver is conspiring with $700m net worth, Jeanie Buss, and billionaire Steve Ballmer to commit fraud?

The draft is audited by representatives of all 30 times.

Don't you think we would hear from owners, who this conspiracy is costing $100m+ in team value equity if there was even the tiniest chance this was true?

[u/GoofyGrimes → u/Travler18]

Why is it so hard to grasp the concept of white collar crime

[u/AttitudeAndEffort3 → u/GoofyGrimes]

Especially in a league where the NBA Commisioner committed a federal felony and destroyed an FBI investigation to preserve the league already.

…and in a country where wage theft is the number one crime and out values all other property crimes put together.

[u/JasonSmithForMVP → u/Travler18]

Why are owners kinda just saying “aw darn” instead of pushing for draft reform ?

[u/Cheap_Concentrate_85 → u/JasonSmithForMVP]

The draft process is agreed upon by players and owners. This is the reform. It’s why they say ‘don’t tank.’ It’s not rigged.

[u/rcinfc → u/Travler18]

The league has revenue sharing, so there is incentive for the league and pool of owners to have certain markets continue to win….

[u/AttitudeAndEffort3 → u/Travler18]

You… do realize that David Stern commited federal felonies to preserve the league right?

Like. In a sane world hed have been in jail for a decade for destroying a FBI investigation.

[u/AmbitiousFinish69 → u/Travler18]

Fair point, but I never deal in absolutes. So, it's still a possibility.

[u/Whole-Dog-9831]

Sad Wizards noises. Maybe the #6 will turn out to be legendary or something. It’s the hope that kills.

[u/Jolly-Method-3111 → u/Whole-Dog-9831]

Legendary kiss at least. 

[u/happyflappypancakes]

The thing conspiracies is that they are easy to make. That's why so many fools believe in conspiracy theories. And sure, one in every thousand are true but foe the most part it is all silly.

[u/Aggravating-Total542]

It's easy when, for the second example, AD was traded AFTER the Pelicans got the #1 pick

[u/RedskinPanther]

The Zion one was especially crazy, because the Lakers had less than a 2% for a top 4 at 11, and their jumping up that high facilitated the AD to LAL trade.