In 1985, the NBA (National Basketball Association) held its draft lottery. There are many reasons why this draft lottery was fixed for the New York Knicks.

The NBA had this HUGE prospect coming out of Georgetown University. This man’s name was Patrick Ewing, he was a 7 foot unit. He was All American for 3 years in a row, led Georgetown to 3 NCAA championships, and finally won it all in 1984.  Not only that he was named ‘Most Outstanding Player of the 1984 NCAA Championships’.

Patrick was for sure the first overall pick, and the question was “Where is he going?” And why not a big name team in a big name city, The New York Knicks.

Another reason is the way the card was placed inside the envelope inside the drum. n on the side of it, creating a crease/dent in the corner of the card.

Then to follow that up the drum was then ‘mixed’. After watching the 85′ draft lottery many times, it started with an Accountant from Ernst And Whinney(Jack Wagner). He placed the seven cards into the drum, and it seems like nothing weird happened. Howeever, watching it slowly, once the 4th card was being put into the drum, it was sort of throw was mixed

David Stern opens the drum and grabs 3 envelopes that are bunched together, proceeds to pretend not to look, which I believe he does. Then David flips the three cards over, revealing the bottom creased card in his hand, which so happens to be the Knicks envelope which gives them the first overall pick.

The last reason why the 85′ draft lottery was fixed is due to the ‘Frozen Envelope’. This reason may seem weaker but it can still be true, but as it goes, the envelope with the Knicks logo on it was left in the fridge or freezer a couple hours before the lottery.

This could be a possibility because if you think that the bent card was just a coincidence, not only that during the early 1980s the NBA had a cocaine problem. So when the lottery ended Stern stated that he was happy that the fans were talking about the lottery and not cocaine. Also rumors have it that Mr Stern said that he wanted a good team in New York, so why not give them a ‘once in a decade’ talent.

That is why the 1985 draft was fixed for the New York Knicks.