BTW, what happened to Zion? Knicks are getting hurt before we can even fix the lottery to draft them.
the nba will not allow the knicks to get zion, all these knick fans that are penciling him in as a future knick are crazy deluded
the nba fixing lotteries every now and then is a bad secret. the whole reason why they changed up the lotto odds this year is to 'even up the odds' across the board, to: 1 - deter teams from tanking and 2 - (my own theory) make things look less suspicious when a team 'somehow' makes a crazy jump up the lotto board
how bad would it look like for the nba to have a tanking team like the knicks end up with the 1st pick after rolling out these new odds to try and prevent that very thing? it would be such a bad look for them, and one they are going to prevent at all costs.
it's likelier the league gives the knicks the lowest possible pick they can get as opposed to a top 1 - 4 pick as an example to other teams that tanking shouldn't be done and won't help anymore.