The NBA Draft Lottery is on Monday night time with Cooper Flagg being the largest prize since, nicely … okay, Victor Wembanyama two years in the past — however nonetheless, Flagg is a large deal.
Flagg is likely to be one of the best U.S.-born prospect since LeBron James, garnering comparisons to Scottie Pippen, Jayson Tatum, and Grant Hill by way of his size and all-around enjoying potential. So with stakes like this on the road it’s solely pure to imagine that the complete lottery course of goes to be rigged in an effort to guarantee solely a staff the NBA needs to have Flagg will truly get him.
Learn our newest mock draft earlier than the lottery right here. We additionally ranked one of the best and worst touchdown spots for Flagg. Fortunately we’re in luck, as a result of there are stable conspiracies behind each single lottery staff that might win on Monday night time. So to avoid wasting your Twitter fingers a while, we’ve obtained all of your theories proper right here for you.
The NBA must dispel it’s “large market bias” narrative, and placing Flagg in Utah achieves simply that. Additionally it coincides properly with the house owners of the Jazz (and now the Utah Mammoth) increasing their area to make Salt Lake Metropolis a much bigger sports activities vacation spot. Like placing Wemby on the Spurs, Flagg on the Jazz achieves related objectives.
The Wizards have been lagging woefully behind in attendance for a big market and Flagg can change that. It’s an awesome sports activities narrative to have the Wizards and Commanders rising from the ashes on the identical time, and the NBA wants to leap on that hype bandwagon.
Charlotte Hornets
Adam Silver met with the house owners of the Hornets near the tip of the common season to listen to about their area growth plans. The NBA has all the time had a comfortable spot for the Charlotte market, placing the NBA All-Star recreation within the metropolis in 2019 and loving the hyperlink between the staff and J. Cole. Flagg might be the lacking piece to make this staff truly good, and Charlotte has been robbed of the No. 1 decide a number of instances previously.
New Orleans Pelicans
Two large causes right here: The Saints are going to be in the bathroom after Derek Carr stunningly retired, and this might simply be pre-payment on a deal to ship Zion Williamson to a significant market. We’ve seen this previously. Keep in mind when New Orleans was gifted Anthony Davis proper after the Chris Paul commerce?
The phrase “too large to fail” applies right here. After all the NBA goes to discover a method to route Flagg to Philly and make the Sixers a phenom once more. The entire Paul George fiasco blew up of their faces, and it’s unclear if Joel Embiid can keep wholesome. This can be a contingency plan so the staff can construct a future large three round Jared McCain, Tyrese Maxey and Cooper Flagg if wanted.
It’s not okay to have a staff be on the planet’s largest media market and wrestle as a lot because the Nets do — particularly when the Knicks have lastly discovered their kind. The NBA wants a Knicks-Nets rivalry to be a factor, and in an effort to obtain that Brooklyn wants a star. Is there something extra completely Brooklyn {that a} lanky basketball star from Maine? The hipsters are going to like him.
It’s a dicey time in world politics and the NBA must currie as a lot favor with the Canadian authorities as doable. This franchise was constructed off Vince Carter developing from North Carolina, now we do it once more with Flagg heading North from Duke.
That is too apparent. Flagg and Wemby is a advertising and marketing dream. The brand new Large Two in Texas. A Gen Z Duncan and Robinson. The alternatives write themselves.
This can be a nice alternative to take the already good Rockets and push them into the stratosphere (forgive the pun). It might additionally take lots of consideration off the Mavericks to allow them to make a extra quiet transfer to Las Vegas.
Sending Damian Lillard to the Bucks did the NBA a significant stable, even when it didn’t work out. This can be a fee on that commerce, and provides Portland a significant star to construct round.
That is apparent. Nico Harrison gifted Luka Doncic to the Lakers, so the NBA items Cooper Flagg to the Mavs.
Chicago Bulls
An enormous market staff on the cusp of successful. Additionally an opportunity to make vital inroads with the Catholic market by making Pope Leo XIV comfortable that his staff has a star.
It’s time to strike whereas the iron is sizzling for the NBA. The Falcons and Braves are down dangerous, so by boosting the Hawks to the moon they may also help declare the most important market within the Southeast. It’s all about constructing the model and making the Hawks a sizzling commodity.
