Emergency Pod: HISTORIC NBA Draft Lottery – Mavs’ CRAZY Jump

Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN's Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon to talk a historic NBA Draft Lottery including the Mavs climbing all the way up to the top pick, the 76ers lucky jump and the Spurs rising again. Plus, with the flattened lottery odds what are teams like the Jazz & Wizards supposed to do? All that and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome this emergency edition of the Hoop Collective podcast.
0:09.0	We talk about the NBA McMahon.
0:12.7	Somebody's got another book coming out, joining us from Madison Square Garden.
0:18.2	We broke him off from doing the Knicks Celtics playoff game in the John Condon press room at the
0:27.0	Mads Square Gardens, Timonteps.
0:28.6	The book is going to be on the fixed 2025 lottery if my text messages are going to have to say
0:32.7	about it.
0:33.1	Joining us from Dallas, Texas, where he's soon to get on the plane for Oklahoma City for game
0:36.9	five of the Nuggets Thunder uh, Thunder series, Van McMahon.
0:41.3	Howdy, partners, listen. There might be a bunch of conspiracy theories out there, but
0:45.5	that dumbass one about the Mavs are moving to Vegas, I think, went kapit tonight.
0:50.4	Okay, let me ask you this. Please, because my phone is blowing up too.
0:55.9	What is the conspiracy?
0:59.0	I mean, I know the conspiracy theory is that allegedly was fixed for the Mavericks.
1:01.0	Please explain the conspiracy to me.
1:06.2	I mean, the conspiracy is that look, okay, I don't want to explain the conspiracy. No, I understand.
1:06.8	We can explain.
1:07.5	The conspiracy theory in 10 seconds would be that a team that's fan base had completely turned on and shut off the franchise just with given a complete lifeline by getting a generational prospect to show up immediately after the train straight away.
1:20.5	The fan bases in Washington and Utah and Charlotte that have to shut off that franchise, those don't care about.
1:30.2	I have a very long speech about the lottery rules,
1:35.9	but I will save that for a second. Wendy, there's a little bit of a difference between,
1:40.8	hey, your team's just been bad or recently got bad, has been bad for a little while,
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