Brian Windhorst Talks Knicks Conspiracy…

Brian Windhorst Talks Knicks Conspiracy…

Brian wior has been talking New York Knicks conspiracies on his podcast and we have to talk about it so what’s up guys welcome back to Nick digest it’s Chris here and we are going to jump right into this video today because Brian wior has been talking about conspiracy theories with the New York

Knicks pertaining to the draft lottery specifically Zion Williamson and the 2019 NBA draft so let’s just jump right into it guys what Wintour had to say and our favorite Twitter account New York basketball highlights this all lottery conspiracy theories died in the night the Knicks and the Lakers were in the

Final four and Zion and J were in the lottery but the Pelicans and The Grizzlies got picks number one and two Mark Spears then said what about the Spurs getting number one obviously with the wemy year what Wendy said is the NBA is not rigging one of the three smallest

Markets to get one of the top players to what Spears said come on man they made sure Victor went to the safest place Wendy said come on Spears you’re in the Hall of Fame to what Spears said I walked in the room in Chicago and said

He’s going to San Antonio I don’t know why we’re wasting all of our time look I’ll be honest I 100% thought that wemi was going to end up on the Spurs I was saying it all year to my college roommates prior that he was going to be

A San Antonio Spur it was just a match made in heaven I don’t know if the NBA rigged it I don’t know if it was perfect fate but at the end of Pop’s career give him one more like true stud Prospect like Tim Duncan to just really finish it

Off mold him into a guy who can be the franchise player of the Spurs and one of the biggest faces in the NBA over the next 15 years and make the Spurs great once again most NBA fans are used to the San Antonio Spurs being one of the best

Teams in basketball they haven’t been around that long and they’ve made the playoffs almost every single year that they have been they went on a run making I believe 22 straight playoff appearances yeah 22 they made it twice after Timmy retired with DeMar rosen so that was 22 appearances straight before

They started missing the playoffs and then obviously they went into a really a one-year rebuild because they had deante they were kind of hanging on by a threat they trade deante for assets they won the trade because deante didn’t really work out Atlanta and still is not they land

Wepy I almost bet on FanDuel FanDuel by the way sponsor us that um the Spurs were going to get the number one overall pick because you can bet on the draft lottery in New York I’ve never thought about betting on the draft lottery in my life it’s an absolute crap shoot but I

Was about to do it because I was that sure they were going to the Spurs were going to get wemy and I was absolutely right and it’s a shame that I didn’t but really what we’re talking about here is the New York Knicks and these Lottery conspiracies specifically when it

Pertains to Zion Williamson now an article from 2020 in CBS Sports when talking about the lottery and the 2019 NBA draft said many conspiracy theorists expected New York to win the draft lottery not only because the Knicks are the top odds but also because they’re a huge market and they’d be able to

Maximize the star power of Zion Williamson one of the top prospects to come along in years instead the Pelicans won it so fans couldn’t cry out foul and claim the league rig the draft if anything fans might have raised their eyebrows the large leap the Lakers made but last year’s draw didn’t exactly

Stink of corruption now the Lakers were able to jump into the top four meaning they’d get to keep their pick and then used it in a trade to grab Anthony Davis now we all knew Davis was leaving we all knew it was almost certainly the Lakers

There was a basically a 99% chance that other 1% being the Knicks because the Pelicans really wanted to pair Zion and RJ together after they got the first pick but we all knew it was the Lakers we all knew LeBron was going to get his wish and get Anthony Davis on his team

So they could contend for a championship that they would later win a year after getting Davis the Lakers jumped into that that was sus and not only that but the Lakers had to get a top three or four pick two years prior involving the Lonzo ball

Draft Lonzo an LA native who went to UCLA and Magic Johnson then president of basketball operations for the team said we already know that we will be getting our draft pick this was two days before that draft lottery so clearly things have been a little fishy with the Los

Angeles Lakers especially since knowing that LeBron James could very well have been in play to become a Laker and then try to make the Lakers great and win them a championship after years and years of their worst Dark Age period in their franchise history little weird and

When it pertains to the New York Knicks there is an argument and I’m going to go out and say I do not think the draft lottery would was rigged in 2019 I think things just went the way they went and there’s nothing you could really say

About it outside of the fact that it sucked for the Knicks they didn’t get Zion h i mean Zion you know has been injury prone but still it would have been cool um I’m kind of happy they didn’t things have worked out really well for us anyway but still you know at

The time at the time we all wanted them we were all being told Zion ktie and Kyrie were going to come to the Knicks we got none of them we ended up with RJ Barrett and Julius Randle who would have known that would have worked out better

Not me not any of us but look there’s an argument to say that it makes more sense to give the Z the I almost said the Zion Pelican to give the Pelican Zion because they were losing ad the last time they lost their single star player

In Chris Paul there is a photo of Anthony Davis the top prospect who was sure fire the number one overall pick same thing as Zan Williamson this was exactly seven years prior wearing a New Orleans Hornet hat when taking a photo with some fan when

He’s sitting in a car now is it weird he’s wearing a New Orleans Hornet hat the team would later draft him of course not except for the fact that it was two weeks prior to the NBA draft that’s or the NBA draft lottery excuse me we knew

They knew the NBA owned the Hornets because their owners went bankrupt you’re telling me that’s not suspicious no it is especially because the NBA owned the Hornets they rigged the draft the Hornets got the Hornets then Pelicans got Anthony Davis through rigging I’m 100% certain of it David

Ston was still the commissioner it was his final Act to just truly make sure the NBA stays with some level of parody and that it still makes the amount of money that it makes we know that’s not the only draft that David Stern rigged because the one time we got the first

Overall pick when the odds were pretty much even I believe to get the draft back then it was the first ever draft lottery David Stern I mean there’s a million YouTube videos on here the best one is by Mike Cora that David Stern I mean he digs in he all the envelopes get

Dropped in one of them gets banged off the side of the little spinny wheel thing that they put all the envelopes in that envelope was the Knicks the corner was bent there’s a rumor that it was frozen so Stern could feel it David Stern reaches in flips over the the

Envelopes drops the bottom one takes the Knicks one that was originally on the bottom and opens it up to give the New York Knicks Patrick Ying one of the biggest most hyped up prospects in history of basketball to this day even though that was now 39 years ago so it’s

Just something to be aware of that the NBA has rigged the draft before and it made sense that when losing their one star again the Pelicans would get another one in Zion Williamson as the Knicks could still get a top something pick whether it was two or three I don’t

Think they were planning on rigging it for Memphis I think they just rigged number one if you had to say it was rigged but it wasn’t rigged I think it was just luck of the draw they all had a 14% a lot of or three teams had a 14%

Chance the pelon’s not one of them they locked into it and that happens in the lottery the Spurs they locked into it probably who knows maybe I think so I don’t think Silver’s rigging drafts but you don’t know the argument against it is that the Cavs get the dra the first overall pick

All the time the LeBron one probably r the Derrik Rose draft probably riged but the Zion Williamson draft with the New York Knicks probably not riged now the draft lottery has evolved over the years before 1985 the league used to decide the top overall pick by holding a

Competitive coin flip with the worst team in each conference but the first Lottery was held in 1985 didn’t take long for controversy to show up as I already talked about Ying was the consensus coveted prize in the 85 draft class he was pretty much guaranteed to be a superstar coming out of Georgetown

Absolutely was wouldn’t it be nice if you went to a big Market team like the Knicks to help boost the League’s overall marketability pretty ideal again that draft class was rigged but if you look in 2019 this does not look like a rigged draft I’m sorry but the Knicks

Still would have gotten the first overall pick it would have made more put Zion on the Knicks and give a box office highlight real star like johnar to the Pelicans as a constellation prize it just would have made more sense financially putting Zion on a almost

Cursed on a really bad Knicks team would have absolutely made the NBA more money than putting Zion on the Pelicans and just keeping another team afloat they could have survived they got Brandon Ingram he was enough of a star that things would have worked out just fine

For the Pelicans they just would have been a not too marketable team and a not too marketable Basketball City because the New Orleans is small and they care about the Saints more the Knicks ended up with RJ Barrett and you know what things didn’t

Not work out for them if you look at the stats here there is something very clear to notice there’s two NBA Allstars who have both made the allstar game two times and then there is RJ Barrett now I love RJ Barrett I always will love RJ

Barrett for his time with the Knicks but he is the worst player out of these three despite the fact that he is way more the most available player now RJ’s big problem was inconsistency over his New York Knicks career he has got gotten that together in the short time he has

Played with the Toronto Raptors so far and I do hope it works out for RJ completely I love RJ I have nothing against him and he did help the Knicks get better in more ways than one not just the trade but the times in the playoffs he had a great playoff performance in

2023 it all worked out just fine for the Knicks Knicks end up getting Randall he blossoms I think most people in the NBA nowadays would say like most fans would say yeah I’d rather have Julius Randle than Zion Williamson because Randall and obviously it’s a little little ironic to

Say it right now considering the Nicks Pelicans game that will have happened last night when you see this video is featuring Zion Williamson with an injured Julius Randall but usually randle’s healthy he’s been a basically a tank for the Knicks and Zion Williamson has been not a tank for the New Orleans

Pelicans he’s played in less than 200 games and he got drafted in 2019 was four years ago he’s in his Fifth Season he missed an entire season missed most of his rookie year we know the deal I think the Knicks got the better end of this I don’t think the

Knicks got it rigged this year but it is an interesting conspiracy for Windor to bring up and I do think he’s correct the Knicks and the Lakers were in the top two it was such an easy chance to give Zion to one of the two biggest markets

In basketball and it’s not like it was the Nets and the Clippers it was the Knicks and the Lakers two of the three most viable franchises in basketball the other being the Golden State Warriors who are the most valuable shout out to Joe Lup for absolutely being a wonderful

Businessman it wasn’t r but it does leave a lot to be wondered about how the NBA draft is and if the Knicks blow up will they ever get it rigged for them again do you guys think so do you think the NBA draft is rigged this is kind of

A fun video I mean it’s about the Knicks but it’s so not really about the Knicks and it was fun to make because though I do love the New York Knicks I love the NBA as a whole love doing these videos let me know if you think the NBA would

Ever rig the draft for the Knicks again if the Knicks get bad once again that we’re not getting bad anytime soon because we have number 11 Jaylen Brunson no one else is ever going to wear number 11 for the New York Knicks again the same way that no one else should ever

Wear number seven for the New York Knicks again have a great day guys like And subscribe to the channel means the world to me shout out to the fan I met today he awesome guy met him right outside of a Starbucks have a great day guys go Nick

Brian Windhorst talked on his podcast about how the New York Knicks are potential proof that the draft lottery has not been rigged in some time and Chris Gallagher discusses.

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