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Despite entering the lottery with only 1.8% probabilities, the Dallas Mavericks landed The superior selection For this year’s NBA draft.
The unexpected result caused innumerable theories worldwide. Many floated theories that suggested that the NBA granted the MAVs a favor after the team changed to the Luka Doncic superstar to the Los Angeles Lakers in February. Dallas will now have the opportunity to write Duke Cooper Flagg.
The former Lakers star, Shaquille O’Neal, became one of the last high profile figures in the debate. The four -time NBA champion recalled a 1992 story about the late NBA Commissioner, David Stern.
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Shaquille O’Neal is interviewed during the Pointsbet built differently in the Hall Media event on August 28, 2022 in Sydney. (Brett Hemmings/Getty images for TLA)
O’Neal, who was recruited by Orlando Magic in 1992, said that Stern approached him before the draft lottery that year and asked about his favorite destination of the NBA.
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“[He] He took me to the side. “Do you want to play where it’s cold or where it’s hot?” O’Neal said. “I asked me that. I told him, ‘hot’ and then smiled and I smiled.”
The former NBA Commissioner, David Stern, a member of the 2014 induced class at the basketball hall, listens to a question during a press conference at Springfield, Massachusetts, on August 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, Archive)
A few months later, O’Neal observed how Orlando, Charlotte and Minnesota obtained the three best teams.
“Minnesota was number 3. Charlotte was number 2 and then Orlando, Florida, was number 1,” he said. “I thought (while doing a questioning face). I didn’t think much about that. You listen to many of these conspiracy theories. There are many situations that can make these things sound good.”
O’Neal said he wanted to avoid using the phrase “conspiracy theory”, but he did describe the situation as “very interesting.”
