How the lottery solved the Adrienne problem

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Condor Adrienne made it perfectly clear he was only ever going to sign for one of the four newest teams: Malmo, Moscow, and the two new expansions which have yet to be revealed (although it's largely no secret where the teams will be). With all four lottery teams having an equal chance to win, and three of them outside of Adrienne's preferred options, there was a lot of debate as to whether these teams would take him at the top of the draft if they won the lottery. That talk is largely irrelevant now, as Malmo won the lottery, the only team to appear both on the list of teams Adrienne would play for and the list of teams that were eligible for the lottery. There were rumors that both of the two new expansion teams had floated around the idea of trading up,  depending on which team had won (with varying degrees of how far talks had gotten, as obviously nothing could be too finalized with the lottery having not taken place). 

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