2023 DRAFT: Mavs take Lively, OMP, sign Mike Miles to 2-way, sign Jordan Walker

[Reunion Mav]

The lottery is not rigged. But statistics do run true to form and not to the expectations of those who don’t understand statistics. Some have posted the actual odds of one or more teams passing us. Those odds are not small. Statistics are truly random but most of us don’t understand that either. Having some teams, obviously including the Mavs not do well in multiple years absolutely happens in random draws. Statistics give us odds but have little to do with any one drawing and have absolutely nothing to do with conspiracy theories.
Research Design class in Grad School.

NBA powers might enjoy a bad outcome for us but they have no power to cause it.

PS. There is also nothing in statistics that would prevent the random draw from favoring us this time. In a random draw there is no such thing as being due. There is also nothing that prevents this particular random draw from being #1. 
Go ahead. Have a small amount of appropriate hope.