Following James and his son, the NBA was exposed to manipulating the draft behind the scenes, and the 2025 No. 1 pick signing has caused controversy

The son inherits his father's business, which is an inevitable reality in the whole world.

As the saying goes, "Why did our family lose to your 10-year hard work for three generations?"

For the NBA, this is understandable. The NBA draft is an exam for freshmen. Since it is an exam, it is inevitable to eliminate cheating and backdoor behavior.

The 2024 NBA draft was criticized as one of the darkest draft years in NBA history, with the Los Angeles Lakers picking Brownie with the 55th pick, which filled the NBA with nepotism accusations.

With Brownie's strength, he is not qualified to participate in the draft. ESPN's official website even directly deleted Brownie's name in the simulation draft.

This made James furious, claiming that he scolded ESPN for not speculating on the future of a college athlete in the form of a mock draft, but James openly took away a place in the second round pick.

Generally speaking, draft players in the late second round also do not get a four-year guaranteed team contract, while Brownie received a four-year guaranteed contract worth nearly $8 million.

Although James and Ricci Paul never admit to manipulating the draft, this has become a recognized topic in the NBA. Even GPT answers this way. American famous A-Smith even bombards James during the live broadcast every day.

Results The 2025 draft was also very good.

Teams that were eliminated in the past, especially those with draft picks, would deliberately make a bad move. What’s embarrassing is that none of the three bad teams played last season won the top three picks.

The Mavericks had a 1.8% chance of winning the No. 1 pick. Harrison and other Mavericks executives were ecstatic, and the media revealed the scene of their crazy celebration.

fans joked that before they came out, the Mavericks' senior executives began to celebrate.

And Dallas won the No. 1 pick in the NBA and WNBA this year!

This result surprised many people and triggered conspiracy theories. Before the trading day deadline, Nico Harrison unexpectedly traded Doncic to the Lakers, causing the entire league to scold the Mavericks' senior executives, and fans blocked the door every day to call for the firing of the Nick.

Now, the Dongmei Switch seems to be a "strategic" move.

According to ESPN, this is the first time Dallas has obtained this position since 1985, and they are ready to chase Cooper Flag. Cooper is a popular draft this year and was once optimistic about his talent as compared to the Spurs.

Cooper performed well during the Paris Olympics and was the number one seed of Captain America's second team. He stood at the upper hand many times in the training camp.

Xiao Hua is a master in selling NBA TV broadcast rights. In 2024, he created a brilliant record with a huge deal of US$77 billion in 2011. The strength of Amazon, NBC Universal and ESPN is undoubtedly high, but when it comes to draft lottery, Adam and Xiao Hua are starting to get nervous.

Former NFL star posted directly on social networks saying, Dear NBA fans, this is a safe zone. Is the NBA draft lottery manipulated? Why?

On North American social networks, it is full of criticism of Xiao Hua, which all implies that there is behind the scenes of the NBA draft.

The Mavericks have been mysterious since they changed their old club. The former boss Mark Cuban has been at the helm of the Mavericks since 2000, and sold the team without warning in 2023. The equity transaction is worth US$3.5 billion!

The Mavericks' new boss is Patrick Dumont, the son-in-law of the American Jewish wealthy businessman Adelson's family (his family is also the founder of the Mavericks). Their family controls the largest gambling company in the United States! This has also led to the NBA's increasingly linked link with the US gambling industry.

Patrick also posted on social networks to celebrate the team's No. 1 pick, although the comments are full of criticism.

This article was originally edited by Yitu Sports

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