Is the NBA Draft Lottery rigged? Conspiracy theorists just got some fodder if the Philadelphia 76ers end up winning the No. 1 overall pick in the coming draft on Tuesday night.
NBA legend Dikembe Mutombo sent out a tweet that congratulated the 76ers on winning the No. 1 pick in the draft at around 4:45 pm on Tuesday. Except the lottery hadn't even took place yet.
The tweet was deleted within minutes. But things live forever on the Internet.
Screen Grab City pic.twitter.com/unHsWTu6Wf - Alex Ruane (@MightBeGeorge) May 17, 2016
Here's my guess on what happened. Deke or his people saw the Sixers' official account encouraging people to tweet using a #PHILAfirst hashtag (or was even asked nicely by the team) and misunderstood what it actually meant. Or he just forgot there was a lottery all together.
Probably an honest mistake but yikes it looked bad.
He later apologized for wagging the itchy trigger finger early.
Sorry, guys.Got excited about the @sixers odds and got ahead of myself.Still keeping my fingers crossed for tonight. pic.twitter.com/u6bFaNTJml - Dikembe Mutombo (@officialmutombo) May 17, 2016
