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Smith: Raptors hoping to beat odds in NBA draft lottery
More lottery articles as we await for tommarow's 8pm start...
This one from D. Smith via thestar.com Quote:
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So Casey is representing :clapping:
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No way Brooklyn doesn't move up...... I would bet my first born on it....
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Mhmm :D come on 3.5%!
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Toronto Raptors hoping to beat odds in NBA draft lottery
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1. you would have to have a core group of people at the top of the league who are involved in this. Assuming it was rigged for some time, you would end up with quite a few people that have a very strong blackmailing tool at their disposal everytime they have more to lose by not using the tool. 2. you would have to get the accounting firm to cooperate with you. Again, that means more than a handful of people (the turnover rate within the accounting firm is probably high, so every few years you would have to deal with different people). You would also have to provide a VERY strong incentive to the accounting firm to risk their reputation, and you would also have to hide this incentive. We're talking at least 10s of millions of dollars (let's just say that somebody like PWC would not risk their reputation for 500k ...). 3. they would have to have a really strong reason to do it. Even if it only costs them 2-3 million dollars a year to cheat, what do they really have to gain. Would sending the #1 pick to the right team really make the NBA that much more profitable, to the point of covering the costs and compensating for the huge risks of this leaking out to the media? It just makes no sense, the NBA would have to be really stupid to do it AND really clever to pull it off. |
i think you're under the impression that people at an account firm care
i'm also under the impression that you've never heard of a non-disclosure agreement if it's something they wanted to do, it would be very easy for them. i'm neither a believer of it being fixed or not fixed, i'm just curious why it isn't done live. |
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It's a hell of a gameplan that colangelo and co. have: Hope of winning a lottery in which they have little chance. hahaha. |
Does anyone have the odds of moving up but not getting first? Is that even possible still?
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As far as the accounting firm, you MUST be joking. The very existence of an audit firm is tied to their reputation. They are hired for the explicit purpose to ensure the draft is not rigged. If they fail (and worse, they are part of the cover-up), they will almost certainly go bankrupt. Even if they don't lose all their clients right away, they would be sued by every team who ever was part of the lottery and didn't win ... Look up Arthur Andersen to see what a major scandal does to an audit firm. They used to be as big as PWC or Ernst and Young a decade ago. And finally, the draft is public, there's media in the draft room to observe the process. Why would they televise it anyway, everything is done in a computer, they press a button and the results are spit out - it probably takes a milisecond. Which btw means that the programmers would have to be part of the conspiracy as well. And again, why would they do it - what can they possibly gain from it? Not to mention that if they are doing it, how come NYK or Boston didn't win the lottery in all the years they've been in it? How come they sent lebron to Cleveland of all places, and now they send Davis to NO rather than to NJ? |
I don't disagree moremilk, and I'm not into the conspiracy, but what if another Arthur Andersen was involved? Inexplicably stupid and corrupt shit is pretty epidemic these days, all the much more so amongst professions that require the best reputation.
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i'm sure a non-disclosure agreement specifically drafted to cover-up fraud would hold up in court...
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its fun to bitch about it though!!!
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