NBA on CBS 1985 NBA Draft Lottery - COMPLETE VERSION

The draft lottery was a good idea. But giving all the teams the same odds was stupid.

I think the lottery should determine all 14 picks(not only the first 3).

Everytime a teams # is drawn, the computer should distribute they're odds to the rest of the lottery conteststants(the process shouldn't take long). This should keep happening untill all 14 teams have had a number drawn.

This gives the element of surprise.

The NBA has been mired in scandal all throughout the Stern tenure, and for good reasons: DAVID STERN IS A SELLOUT AND A MORON WHOSE INCOMPETENCY HAS DILUTED THE NBA!! But this is the first time I've seen this, and I've gotta tell you guys- How was this rigged?The two arguments seem to be he reached down past two other envelopes, and that they were bent. A- It's paper: paper is FLIMSY! Several envelopes in there had bent corners. Plus, if you watch all the selections, he rarely picks the top one.

"Blue chippers such as Wayman Tisdale and Benoit Benjamin" LOL

I have to say that if I was on an jury I would convict the NBA of fixing the draft off of that video. He intensionally reached in, grabed the one with the bent corner, flipped it over to dump the other 2 envelopes off of it and hands it to the guy to place in the #1 slot. Before he sticks his hand in he lets out a sigh and LOOKS into the container. Anyone who was intent on being random turns his head so as to appear to be honest.

Despite coming in dead last in the lottery, the Warriors ended up with Chris Mullin who went on to have a damn good career.

I don't see it.

I hear ya. Hey, remember when the Celtics
'conveniently' got the #1 pick in 1997, thus landing Tim Duncan? Oh wait, that didn't happen, small market San Antonio landed the first pick. I wonder how that fit into Stern's master plan of world domination.

True... they should make the draft like the NFL... teams with the lowest records gets number 1 pick, although some teams may not play as hard at the end of the season.

Headless, I don't think any drafts were fixed after this one here. I don't think Stern would be so dumb to go through the risk of fixing another one like he easily did here with the big envelopes. Let's remember, this guy also changed the rules in the middle of the 02-03 season when it looked like the mighty Lakers would not get home court advantage in the first round (5 seed). He changed the best of 5 format to best of 7 so there would be a smaller chance at an upset. This guy is slime.

Maybe I'm reaching here but 85% of communication is non-verbal and at 5:25 he blows air out his mouth, its the kind of thing a lot of people do when they're nervous about something...say right before entering a classroom to take a test when they know they'll cheat. Or rigging the NBA Draft Lottery. And since this was only his second season as a commish and first doing the lottey I'd imagine he hadn't gotten used to the rule bending he's been doing for a quarter century now

its funny how some of these lottery teams are still lottery teams