The Mavs Defy the Odds: Is the NBA Lottery Rigged?

Spending my middle school years in DFW, I lived for Mavericks games. I cheered on Dirk Nowitzki’s fadeaways and marveled at how our scrappy team battled NBA giants. But in 2025, I’m sitting here, jaw dropped, trying to make sense of the NBA Draft Lottery. The Mavericks traded Luka Dončić, a generational superstar, to the Lakers in a deal that felt like a betrayal and possibly the dumbest move in NBA history. And for what? Because he was getting fat? Then, against a measly 1.8% chance, they land the #1 pick to draft Cooper Flagg? Come on, NBA. You’re telling me this is pure luck? Fans on X aren’t buying it, and neither am I. This smells like another chapter in the league’s history of lottery conspiracies, where big markets like LA get the goods while smaller ones like Utah get the shaft.

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The Accountant 2 Review

I was a big fan of the first Accountant movie. An autistic accountant who’s also a trained assassin? Sounds nuts, but Ben Affleck and Anna Kendrick made it work. Christian Wolff was intense, the action was killer, and the story stuck with you. So I was stoked when I heard about The Accountant 2, hoping it’d bring the same heat. It’s got some of the juice that made the first movie great, like solid fights and brotherly love, but it ultimately holds itself back from reaching those heights again.

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Saints, Sinners, and Shedeur Sanders

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Rendering of the Fairview Texas Temple

I was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2018, just as President Russell M. Nelson took the helm. Since then he’s announced nearly 200 temples worldwide. As a Texan and a member, I’m proud one is planned near Dallas-Fort Worth: the Fairview Texas Temple. But not everyone feels the same way. Texas means “Friend,” yet Fairview’s venom toward neighbors who just want to worship feels like a betrayal of our state’s heart, exposing hypocrisy at best and outright religious bigotry at worst.

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