The NBA’s competitive landscape hung in the balance during a potential lottery apocalypse on Monday night. The Dallas Mavericks and San Antonio Spurs found themselves as the last two teams standing for the rights to Cooper Flagg on the TV broadcast. The prospect of Flagg teaming up with Victor Wembanyama would have been devastating for the idea of parity that the league has worked to cultivate, pairing the two best prospects of their generation early in their careers.
Instead, the Spurs were drawn at No. 2, meaning the Mavs were somehow the lucky winners of the lottery with only a 1.8 percent chance from the 11th spot in
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