Not when there’s gambling involved.
Not when there’s big marketing money involved. And again, why would half the league and multiple billionaires conspire to get one random team the first pick. Silver works for the owners, not the other way around.
People also pick and choose when they choose to do it.
I used to believe in such things until I grew up and understood how randomness, business, and the law works. And that shyt always leaks. The mf Mossad, CIA, Chinese communist party, Irans revolutionary guard and them leak. But one single aspect of the of one single subset of the entertainment business is more secretive than any factor in the world. And that’s the nba draft