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My point and statement are not hard to understand

 

The league is RIGGED!

Ayton got ejected because his elbow slipped while trying to guard Sengun in the post and his elbow slightly connected to Sengun's head. It was completely unintentional and everyone can see it from the replay.

OKC trips players, hooks their arms to foul bait, jump and flail when someone is 1 feet away from them, and no suspensions, fines, or ejections. Totally rigged, IMO!

 

Ayo is an exact Jrue Holiday replica.

I think he's going to get $25 million

 

I asked what "right now" meant. Also not hard to understand. And point about the injury situation both teams and the effect the cap situation will have on them this summer, whereas it would be pretty hard for the Lakers not to improve. You want to just state or bemoan the obvious?

 

Again what I said speaks for itself

 

Whatever .... forget it. Sheesh!

 

Flattening out the bottom 10 spots takes out the incentive to actively tank to be the worst of the worst. There’s no extra prizes for losing 65 games as there is for losing 50.

Then whoever is in the play in has a varying chance of winning the lottery. I do think they should leave it top 14 and final seeding should include who doesn’t make the playoffs. You don’t want a year like this year where Boston could of made the playin and then got Tatum back a few weeks before rounded in shape and did some damage in the playoffs while getting a shot at the 1st pick.

Either way this should take away the heavy incentive to tank for the worst teams, they can still try to develop young guys and win some games because the bottom 10 have had their lottery chances flattened.

 

this is kind of what i meant. making it in as a 7 seed would be sweet in this case, and pretty much every year there are a couple teams in the play-in that are very dangerous and just there due to injuries (this year, gs could have been that, we've been that a couple times, and orlando is that this year).

it's interesting that they want to flatten odds moreso than expand the lotto. or that they're not considering expanding. if the worst record is still guaranteed a top-5 pick, you still have a race to the bottom. statistically/historically, after pick #5, the expected value drops off. we still only lotto for 3, right? or is it 4 now? anyway, knocking that down a peg or two would really take the wind out of the serious tank sails, imo.

i'd rather that than allow a 7-seed a shot at the #1 overall pick.