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you know for the first time in a long
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time maybe the first time
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ever I really felt like after the NBA
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lottery the fix was it in that it was
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rigged and I'm not one who usually
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abides by the conspiracy theories i'm
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usually one that abides by there's a
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simpler solution a simpler answer than
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the presumption that there's a huge
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cover up and nobody knows anything
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except just a few people and those few
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people kept the secret so close to the
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vest we shall never understand it we
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shall never know it because they'll go
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to their grave with that i'm not usually
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one that believes that specifically in
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sports specifically in sports i'm not
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usually one that abides by the
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conspiracy theories that the fix is in
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the rig is in you can look at all my
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videos on this channel going back to
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officiating the AFC Championship game
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before that i really hesitate to throw
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that stuff around because I know just
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how corrosive that type of thinking can
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be when it obviously is not true but
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when it comes to this NBA draft
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lottery it is really hard to stomach
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that there was not something subversive
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happening instead of just hey the
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Mavericks want it fair and square before
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I get into why I feel that way let me
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know that the Dallas Mavericks did
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everything wrong everything wrong in
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shopping Luca Donic they didn't even
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shop him they just called up one team
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that Nico Harrison happened to have a
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relationship with and Rob Pelinka didn't
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even get the highest value for him just
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sold him to his buddy that didn't feel
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good then you have the outcry around
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Dallas a fan revolt and how do the
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Mavericks answer that fan revolt by
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kicking paying customers out of the
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building for daring questioning the
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integrity of the decision-making around
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there on top of it you see an
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obviously frail plan disintegrate in
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front of our very eyes because well
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would you look at here the always injury
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prone Anthony Davis is injuryprone and
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Kyrie goes down and the whole thing ends
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up imploding and what are Mavericks fans
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left with except this promise that hey
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you know what it's because we're better
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today we're better suited to win a
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championship today and after saying that
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for how long the owner speaks to a
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business conference and admits that the
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trade was not for the not for the
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present but instead the long term so
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which one is it then we spin it forward
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going into the playin games and the
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Maverick's GM Nico Harrison decides to
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have a super secret double probation
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press conference or media availability
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where no recording devices are allowed
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to be on premises and you only get an
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invitation personally to this thing what
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is going on around here and with all of
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these types of crazy bad decisions you
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could look at the Mavericks and say
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they're doing everything in their power
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everything to ruin their own existence
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and it's so bad maybe they want to tank
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the tank the interest in town to move
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the team to Las Vegas that's how bad
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their decisionmaking has been and lo and
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behold we get to an NBA draft lottery
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where the Mavericks having played in the
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playin which I mean kind of amounts to
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somehow wins the NBA draft lottery and
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not only comes out with the most crazy
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mathematical odds ever less than 2%
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chance at landing the number one pick
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but in that number number one pick gets
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a generational talent in Cooper flag
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which one fell swoop helps quiet the den
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of the crowd in Dallas helps flip those
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who said I'll never root for this team
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ever again into well you know Cooper
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Flag and saves the GM's hide because now
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suddenly you add an incredible talent
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like Cooper Flag to a team that minus
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Kyrie Irving who's likely out for the
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foreseeable future of next season does
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have some pieces that you can put around
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Cooper flag so that he's not just a mitz
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in the middle of an island on a lottery
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team that's going to win 10 games a
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year how does something like this happen
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how does something like this happen
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where Nico Harrison having done
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everything wrong everything an
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organization that has spit in the eye of
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fans just gets the ultimate bailout call
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how does it happen and then you add that
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extra layer of well why
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was the the incredibly talented Luca
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Donic not shopped around the highest
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bidder why did Nico Harris decide not to
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open this thing up to the rest of the
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league but instead just do business with
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one guy his buddy from Nike years Rob
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does that just speak to the NBA wanting
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to funnel a star a generational star in
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Luca a major brand to Los Angeles the
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most valuable commodity in the NBA the
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Lakers as LeBron is on his way out the
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door now you supplement that roster with
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the next superstar to take the baton
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from LeBron it feels almost too perfect
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is it possible that all this is is that
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the NBA said we got to do a solid you
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got to do it for us and then will return
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the favor with the draft lottery look
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again I'm not one to believe in all
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those types of crackpot tinfoil hack
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conspiracy theories because I think
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there's always a simpler way to explain
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it but this one boy this one this one
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stinks then maybe it just stinks because
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I didn't want to see Nico get the
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bailout i didn't want to see the
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Mavericks do everything wrong and stick
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a middle finger in the face of their
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fans and get the Cooper flag bailout and
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nor do I want to see a team that is on
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just the outside of the playoffs
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basically in the playoffs with the
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playin rewarded with the number one pick
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that's certainly not how you help bad
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it's not how you save you know the teams
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that are stuck at the bottom and fan
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bases that have been watching losing
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basketball for three five 10 years like
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in Washington instead it's a franchise
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that has played nearly into the playoffs
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and suddenly wins Cooper freaking flag
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it just doesn't sit right it just does
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not sit right it doesn't feel right it
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doesn't look right and sometimes and it
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walks like a duck and it talks like a
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duck and it looks like a duck it might
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just be a favor done by the NBA to the
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Dallas Mavericks for shuffling Luca
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Donic to the Los Angeles Lakers i'm not
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saying but I am saying boy this one
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stinks and let's just say this isn't the
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first time something with the NBA
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lottery has stunk if we go back to 1985
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there was always the conspiracy theory
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that existed still does that Patrick
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Euing's lottery card the New York Knicks
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envelope was frozen put in a freezer
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before the hand of David Stern the hand
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of the NBA could go in there to choose
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it ruffle around in there rustle around
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and feel the crisp frozen envelope
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envelope of the Knicks oh this would be
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the number one pick in the draft and
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wouldn't you know it it's the biggest
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media market in need of a savior and
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much like Cooper Flag here's a
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talent shuffled your way you know there
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have been multiple shady circumstances
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surrounding the NBA draft lottery in
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2016 Dembbe Matumbbo before the lottery
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tweeted a congratulations to the
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Philadelphia 76ers for winning the
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lottery just so happened a couple of
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hours later the Philadelphia 76ers won
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the NBA draft lottery the next year 2017
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the Lakers head coaching job was open
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magic Johnson interviewed Luke Walton
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and assured Luke Walton that the Lakers
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would have a top three pick in the draft
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sweetening the pot for him to take the
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job well that ended up happening the
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Lakers did indeed get a top three pick
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in the draft this was 12 days before the
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draft lottery when you consider just how
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crazy it is that with less than a 2%
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chance of winning the lottery the Dallas
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Mavericks did it to land Cooper flag I
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would just point out 2003 that was the
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year the Cleveland Cavaliers won the
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lottery and won the rights to LeBron
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James and it seemed all too perfect
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right oh yeah right the Cleveland
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Cavaliers just happened to win the
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lottery the year that LeBron a Northeast
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Ohio kid a generational alltime high
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school prodigy is coming out to save the
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day he's from Northeast Ohio the Cavs
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win the lottery uh-huh the NBA did it
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again but note that that year the
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22% chance of winning the lottery
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22% they had the worst record of the NBA
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compare that to this year when the
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Mavericks won it with
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1.8% if you thought it was shady that
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LeBron went to the Cavs this is 10 times
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shadier with a less than 2% chance of
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winning the lottery so a franchise that
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has been the object of ridicule and
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scorn a general manager that for some
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reason only called one GM and seemed to
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not even get a great deal from that GM
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where was Austin Reeves in this package
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just got his hide saved with a less than
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2% chance of winning the lottery and
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landing Cooper flag from
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Duke it just doesn't sit right thanks
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