It’s lying season.
The NBA draft isn’t until June 21st, and that means we have a little less than a month of misleading, disinformation-spreading, posturing, and outright fabricating, as both the front offices of NBA teams and agents of draft prospects use all the media tools at their disposal to best position themselves. It happens every year, and yet every year most of us fall for it.
So, with that as our lens, let’s take a look at some curious bits from an ESPN article that dropped this morning.
Barring a trade, I’d say Doncic being drafted in the top three is no better than 50-50.