I know it's easy to point to the draft lottery and say it's rigged when things like this happen, but it's audited by a reputable audit firm, Ernst and Young who I doubt want to become the next Arthur Andersen of Enron infamy. Plus executives from the rival teams also witness the lottery process. The days of frozen envelopes are no more.
It sucks the inept Mavs leadership lucked into the top pick, but I was half expecting Houston to move with our pick and have that hanging over our heads for the next 15 plus years. There's still plenty of opportunities for that to happen in the coming draft lotteries.