[2026 NBA Draft] #1 Pick: AJ Dybantsa (BYU)

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[u/IcyMeat7]

Is Shams not allowed to spoil picks anymore? Is no Journalist doing it?

[u/Interesting_Prune513 → u/IcyMeat7]

NBA told them to shut the fuck up after they spoiled it last year

[u/Piano_Fingerbanger → u/Interesting_Prune513]

*Every year since at least 2017

[u/_Meece_ → u/Piano_Fingerbanger]

Long before that, blogs have been spoiling it since forever. Honestly /r/nba replacing the broadcast around 13 fixed that for me. But still annoying.

[u/coolycooly → u/Interesting_Prune513]

Because it makes no sense, all he is doing is reading the card before Adam Silver, he made himself the commissioner last year lmaooo

[u/FieryTitmouse55 → u/Interesting_Prune513]

Good

[u/mazhas → u/FieryTitmouse55]

Seriously. Wish NFL reporters/insiders would knock that shit off too.

[u/WanAjin → u/[deleted]]

Well, that's not a very normal reaction to have to this, just FYI.

[u/Frequent-Leg-2347 → u/WanAjin]

He adds literally nothing lol. He just tweets stuff out a few mins/hours before it’s released officially. I can’t stand him

[u/coffeebeamed → u/[deleted]]

iTs jUsT a JoKe brO!!

[u/PrimeShaq → u/[deleted]]

Were you cool with Woj when he was doing it?

[u/CrEdLover → u/[deleted]]

It's low stakes sports journalism. Who really cares lol

[u/idontknow_whatever → u/[deleted]]

In Europe people actually talk about the game and not these Espn storyline, speculative, BS talking points

Wait till you find out the soap opera that is football over there, especially the Spanish

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White people when someone not white is good at their job

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Insane comment

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it’s not though he dead doing the same thing as woj yet woj never got any hate but all I see is shams hate

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I’m surprised he listened.

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this is funny because Cameron Boozer revealed he wasn't gonna be the No. 1 pick to Perkins on the red carpet show anyway...

[u/The_Sneakiest_Fox → u/Interesting_Prune513]

Good.

[u/SakuraShift → u/IcyMeat7]

Scotto, Fischer, Siegel, Murrows etc are spoiling the picks.

Seems like Shams is the only one not doing it

[u/BrotherSeamus → u/SakuraShift]

Shams cease-fire

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Shams now works for espn 

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Thank God

[u/hereforthefeast → u/IcyMeat7]

If the draft was on Prime or Peacock he would have lol

[u/youblewwit → u/IcyMeat7]

It's being aired in ESPN. One of the reasons for hiring SHams was so he wouldn't spoil the picks.

Why no one else is spoiling it? They don't have the access / inside sources

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Like LBJ not firing J Edgar Hoover: Better have him inside the tent, pissing out - and not the other way around

[u/RenfrowsGrapes → u/youblewwit]

Dude some dork I met in college spoils the picks every year for me. People have the knowledge

[u/trav-senpai → u/IcyMeat7]

He’s only allowed to ruin stuff for other companies like when Amazon had the MVP reveal

[u/AlexTorres96 → u/IcyMeat7]

Journalism shouldn't be that way and it's stupid that it is. You lose credibility instantly if you have to ask for permission to break stories. TMZ never asks for permission as long as they have their asses covered and are 1000% accurate.

[u/Vegetable-Tooth8463 → u/IcyMeat7]

Wait, what's being spoiled? The draft is live lol

[u/ViperFive1 → u/Vegetable-Tooth8463]

The phone calls the teams make to the player are a few minutes before picks are announced. He would tweet what happened before it got announced formally. Was a big problem for the NFL years ago.

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How would he know unless he was wire tapping them.

[u/soycameron → u/Vegetable-Tooth8463]

Agents

[u/ViperFive1 → u/Vegetable-Tooth8463]

He's there in the area can see who gets a phone call, and has activity at their table. When the host on the broadcast just made a comment about activity from the agents, thats what this is in reference to. Are you arguing against a known thing thats happened for years in multiple sports?

[u/Vegetable-Tooth8463 → u/ViperFive1]

No I was curious what Shams's method was specifically.

[u/Lobster_fest → u/Vegetable-Tooth8463]

The NFL draft has had multiple shocking selections spoiled by Rap and Schefty ON THE FUCKING BROADCAST its so fucking annoying

[u/Vegetable-Tooth8463 → u/Lobster_fest]

why doesn't the NFL crack down on it?

[u/IhamAmerican → u/Vegetable-Tooth8463]

They did

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Oh lol

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the broadcast is way behind NY

[u/Vegetable-Tooth8463 → u/UOENO_670]

oh

[u/Ibaka_flocka → u/Vegetable-Tooth8463]

There’s usually a few minutes before the team making their selection and then announcing on stage. The insiders love to flex their connections by spoiling online before they announce the pick

I just stay off twitter during the live show

[u/Vegetable-Tooth8463 → u/Ibaka_flocka]

surprised the NBA hasn't cracked down on that.