Finishing last in the National Basketball Association (NBA) this year has an upside, as that would mean having the best lottery odds to get the first pick in the draft.
And that, undoubtedly, means drafting Victor Wembanyama. He's a 7-foot-4 player from France who plays and shoots like a guard. His ceiling (if he doesn't bump his head on it) is really high.
He's wearing number 32, if you hadn't been able to figure that out.
I'm not a big basketball fan, but I pay attention to it, and pay attention to excellence in the sport. Wembanyama is very likely to be an excellent player, with the potential to completely change the fortunes of the downtrodden team that drafts him.
Thus, it is not surprising to see a team attempting to be even more downtrodden to improve their draft position, even if that's not approved of by the league.
Quoting the article:
By the way, the Detroit Pistons had the worst record in the league this season, and the San Antonio Spurs had the second-worst record."In its statement, the league said it found the Mavericks to have demonstrated 'through actions and public statements' the organization's desire to lose the game in order to improve its chances of keeping its first-round pick.
'I know that many of our NBA teams are salivating at the notion that potentially through our lottery that they could get (Wembanyama), so they should all still compete very hard next season,' [NBA Commissioner Adam] Silver said in October."
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