NBA Draft 2025 under fire after Mavericks land Cooper Flagg with 1.8% odds
When the Dallas Mavericks logo appeared at No. 1, it felt like a plot twist.The Mavericks won the 2025 NBA Draft Lottery with just a 1.8% chance, earning the right to select Cooper Flagg. Within 24 hours, speculation moved beyond social media and into ownership circles.How the lottery result sparked league-wide skepticismInvestigative journalist Pablo Torre said on the "Chapo Trap House" podcast that two NBA owners privately told him they believed the lottery was fixed.Mavericks Cooper Flagg makes grown men look like kids with a powerful dunk"This was obviously fixed," Torre recalled them saying. He added that those owners questioned whether NBA commissioner Adam Silver had remained fully detached from the process.There is no evidence that the lottery was manipulated.The NBA Draft Lottery is conducted in a secured room overseen by Ernst & Young, the independent accounting firm that supervises […]