NPDS - Mavericks win the NBA Draft Lottery! RIGGED!? Celtics lose to Jalen Brunson, and lose Tatum! Kyle Tucker to the Dodgers in 2026!? (Episode 1275)

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Dan Le Batard

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘NICO’ as in Nico Harrison as in the Dallas Mavericks as in Cooper Flagg as in Luka Doncic as in the NBA Draft Lottery. What a night. Was it all rigged? Did Adam Silver do this? Fans are furious. Never moved up in the lottery before. Never won the draft lottery. 4th lowest chances ever. It’s crazy! (10:40) Is Giannis on the move? Could he be going to the Spurs? They have the pieces to do something like that. Does Giannis even want out? Can the Bucks build a team around him? (17:20) Knicks Tape took over again. Jalen Brunson is so good. Knicks took a 3-1 lead. Jayson Tatum likely tore his achilles. Bad bad bad. (26:40) The Minnesota Timberwolves are up 3-1 now. Anthony Edwards got it done. Jimmy Butler was nowhere to be found. (31:40) Review: Nonnas. (34:40) Michael Jordan is back in the NBA. No, not like that. On NBC! (42:30) So You Wanna Talk to Samson!? Are the Dodgers going to sign Kyle Tucker!? (49:20) NPPOD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Nico, that's the nothing.
0:16.0	That's the nothing personal word of the day.
0:18.7	It is Tuesday, May 13th, 2025, and there is no happier person on earth this morning than Nico Harrison.
0:29.4	Nico Harrison, the beleaguered head of basketball operations for the Dallas Mavericks, having suffered through a trade went bad, viral and bad,
0:41.9	telling us that I love the trade. I didn't realize any of you liked Luca this much. I didn't
0:48.6	realize it would be such a big deal, but defense wins championships. We've got Anthony Davis. We're a better team, not just for now,
0:56.3	but for later. And people leaving Dallas in droves, dropping season tickets, Mark Cuban,
1:02.6	furious, the team not performing to the point that they were in the NBA lottery. Now, they weren't so bad because they only had
1:14.2	a 1.8% chance of getting the top pick. They had an 8.5% chance of moving up, which they had never
1:23.1	done in their lottery history, but only 1.8% of getting the top pick.
1:29.3	So the NBA lottery starts 7 p.m. live. It's a TV event. There's no, is it
1:36.2	dibbing, coca? There's no dibbing going on between Mark Tatum and the players, even though
1:41.2	they have players there. And there is, why they're there is funny to me.
1:45.7	They want to see where they're playing, except only Cooper Flagg knows where he was going to
1:50.4	play, wherever the first pick was.
1:53.3	Utah, Charlotte, Wizards, 14% chance of their tank working.
2:00.4	And all I kept thinking the whole time is Cooper flag in
2:03.0	Washington, NG-T-H, baby. If Jordan still own the Hornets, maybe there's a chance the Hornets
2:09.5	would get the first pick, but nah, I don't see that happening. The Jazz, that's possible.
2:16.2	The Jazz has been good, never won a title.
2:18.4	Utah's a burgeoning sports town.
2:21.0	Trying to get a major league baseball team.
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