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2023 NBA Draft Lottery Results
InsideHoops.comMay 16 2023
May 16, 2023 - Results of the 2023 NBA Draft Lottery: 1) Spurs, 2) Hornets, 3) Blazers, 4) Rockets, 5) Pistons, 6) Magic, 7) Pacers, 8) Wizards, 9) Jazz, 10) Mavericks, 11) Magic, 12) Thunder, 13) Raptors and 14) Pelicans.
"The team and the city that sticks with us and put so much effort and love into the organization, it's just amazing for them to get rewarded," said Spurs Managing Partner Peter J. Holt immediately following the Lottery. "So many folks have been with us a long time and now everybody can feel rewarded and excited. My joy was a 'we' type of fun and joy."
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The Orlando Magic tonight won the 2022 NBA Draft Lottery, which was conducted at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago. The Magic will have the first overall pick in the 2022 NBA Draft, which will be held on Thursday, June 23.
Below are the results from the 2022 NBA Draft Lottery:
1. Orlando
2. Oklahoma City
3. Houston
4. Sacramento
5. Detroit
6. Indiana
7. Portland
8. New Orleans (from Los Angeles Lakers)
9. San Antonio
10. Washington
11. New York
12. Oklahoma City (from LA Clippers)
13. Charlotte
14. Cleveland
Below is the order for the remainder of the first round of the 2022 NBA Draft:
15. Charlotte (from New Orleans)
16. Atlanta
17. Houston (from Brooklyn)
18. Chicago
19. Minnesota
20. San Antonio (from Toronto)
21. Denver
22. Memphis (from Utah)
23. Philadelphia[1]
24. Milwaukee
25. San Antonio (from Boston)
26. Dallas
27. Miami
28. Golden State
29. Memphis
30. Oklahoma City (from Phoenix)
[1] This pick may be conveyed to Brooklyn
Below is the order for the second round of the 2022 NBA Draft:
31. Indiana (from Houston via Cleveland)
32. Orlando
33. Toronto (from Detroit via San Antonio, Washington, and Chicago)
34. Oklahoma City
35. Orlando (from Indiana via Milwaukee)
36. Portland
37. Sacramento
38. San Antonio (from Los Angeles Lakers via Chicago and Washington)
39. Cleveland (from San Antonio via Utah)
40. Minnesota (from Washington via Cleveland)
41. New Orleans
42. New York
43. LA Clippers
44. Atlanta
45. Charlotte
46. Detroit (from Brooklyn)
47. Memphis (from Cleveland via New Orleans and Atlanta)
48. Minnesota
49. Sacramento (from Chicago via Memphis and Detroit)
50. Minnesota (from Denver via Philadelphia)
51. Golden State (from Toronto via Philadelphia)
52. New Orleans (from Utah)
53. Boston
-- Milwaukee (forfeited)
-- Miami (from Philadelphia via Denver; forfeited by Miami)
54. Washington (from Dallas)
55. Golden State
56. Cleveland (from Miami via Indiana)
57. Portland (from Memphis via Utah)
58. Indiana (from Phoenix)
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The Detroit Pistons tonight won the 2021 NBA Draft Lottery, which was conducted at the NBA office in Secaucus, New Jersey. The Pistons will have the first overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft, which will be held on Thursday, July 29.
Below are the results from the 2021 NBA Draft Lottery:
1. Detroit
2. Houston
3. Cleveland
4. Toronto
5. Orlando
6. Oklahoma City
7. Golden State (from Minnesota)
8. Orlando (from Chicago)
9. Sacramento
10. New Orleans
11. Charlotte
12. San Antonio
13. Indiana
14. Golden State
Below is the order for the remainder of the first round for the 2021 NBA Draft:
15. Washington
16. Oklahoma City (from Boston)
17. Memphis
18. Oklahoma City (from Miami via the LA Clippers, Philadelphia, and Phoenix)
19. New York
20. Atlanta
21. New York (from Dallas)
22. Los Angeles Lakers
23. Houston (from Portland)
24. Houston (from Milwaukee)
25. LA Clippers
26. Denver
27. Brooklyn
28. Philadelphia
29. Phoenix
30. Utah
Below is the order for the complete second round for the 2021 NBA Draft:
31. Milwaukee (from Houston)
32. New York (from Detroit via the LA Clippers and Philadelphia)
33. Orlando
34. Oklahoma City
35. New Orleans (from Cleveland via Atlanta)
36. Oklahoma City (from Minnesota via Golden State)
37. Detroit (from Toronto via Brooklyn)
38. Chicago (from New Orleans - Order assumes that Chicago exercises its right to swap the #40 pick for the #38 pick.)
39. Sacramento
40. New Orleans (from Chicago - Order assumes that Chicago exercises its right to swap the #40 pick for the #38 pick.
41. San Antonio
42. Detroit (from Charlotte via New York)
43. New Orleans (from Washington via Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Utah)
44. Brooklyn (from Indiana)
45. Boston
46. Toronto (from Memphis via Sacramento)
47. Toronto (from Golden State via Utah and New Orleans)
48. Atlanta (from Miami via Sacramento and Portland)
49. Brooklyn (from Atlanta)
50. Philadelphia (from New York)
51. Memphis (from Portland via Dallas, Detroit, and Cleveland)
52. Detroit (from Los Angeles Lakers via Sacramento, Houston, and Detroit)
53. New Orleans (from Dallas)
54. Indiana (from Milwaukee via Houston and Cleveland)
55. Oklahoma City (from Denver via Golden State and Philadelphia)
56. Charlotte (from LA Clippers)
57. Charlotte (from Brooklyn)
58. New York (from Philadelphia)
59. Brooklyn (from Phoenix)
60. Indiana (from Utah)
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2020 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY
August 20, 2020
The Minnesota Timberwolves tonight won NBA Draft Lottery 2020, which was conducted at the NBA office in Secaucus, New Jersey. The Timberwolves will have the first overall pick in NBA Draft 2020, which is scheduled to be held on Friday, Oct. 16.
Below are the results from NBA Draft Lottery 2020:
1. Minnesota
2. Golden State
3. Charlotte
4. Chicago
5. Cleveland
6. Atlanta
7. Detroit
8. New York
9. Washington
10. Phoenix
11. San Antonio
12. Sacramento
13. New Orleans
14. Boston (from Memphis)
Below is the order for the remainder of the first round and the complete second round for NBA Draft 2020 presented by State Farm:
15. Orlando
16. Portland
17. Minnesota (from Brooklyn via Atlanta)
18. Dallas
19. Brooklyn (from Philadelphia via LA Clippers)
20. Miami
21. Philadelphia (from Oklahoma City via Orlando and Philadelphia)
22. Denver (from Houston)
23. Utah
24. Milwaukee (from Indiana)
25. Oklahoma City (from Denver)
26. Boston
27. New York (from LA Clippers)
28. Los Angeles Lakers
29. Toronto
30. Boston (from Milwaukee via Phoenix)
2020 SECOND ROUND DRAFT CHOICE ORDER
31. Dallas (from Golden State)
32. Charlotte (from Cleveland via LA Clippers and Orlando)
33. Minnesota
34. Philadelphia (from Atlanta)
35. Sacramento (from Detroit via Phoenix)
36. Philadelphia (from New York)
37. Washington (from Chicago)
38. New York (from Charlotte)
39. New Orleans (from Washington via Milwaukee)
40. Memphis (from Phoenix)
41. San Antonio
42. New Orleans
43. Sacramento
44. Chicago (from Memphis)
45. Orlando
46. Portland
47. Boston (from Brooklyn via Charlotte, Orlando and Philadelphia)
48. Golden State (from Dallas via Philadelphia)
49. Philadelphia
50. Atlanta (from Miami via Sacramento, Cleveland and Boston)
51. Golden State (from Utah via Dallas, Detroit and Cleveland)
52. Sacramento (from Houston)
53. Oklahoma City
54. Indiana
55. Brooklyn (from Denver)
56. Charlotte (from Boston)
57. LA Clippers
58. Philadelphia (from Los Angeles Lakers via Orlando)
59. Toronto
60. New Orleans (from Milwaukee)
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2019 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY RESULTS
May 14, 2019
The New Orleans Pelicans won the 2019 NBA Draft Lottery in Chicago today and will have the first overall pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, which will be held on Thursday, June 20 at 7 p.m. ET at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Below are the results from NBA Draft Lottery 2019:
1. New Orleans
2. Memphis
3. New York
4. Los Angeles Lakers
5. Cleveland
6. Phoenix
7. Chicago
8. Atlanta
9. Washington
10. Atlanta (from Dallas)
11. Minnesota
12. Charlotte
13. Miami
14. Boston (from Sacramento via Philadelphia)
USA Today: "The New Orleans Pelicans were fortunate to turn up the franchise-changing ping pong ball to win the No. 1 pick at Tuesday night s NBA draft lottery, despite entering the day with just a 6% chance of winning. They beat out 13 other hopeful teams looking to draft Williamson, the Duke sensation who s the presumptive top pick in June after a highlight-reel freshman season in which he was college basketball s national player of the year."
USA Today: "Previously, the team with the worst record (New York went a league-worst 17-65 this past season) had a 25% chance of getting the top pick. This year the team with the three worst records the Knicks, Cleveland Cavaliers (fifth) and Phoenix Suns (sixth) all had an equal 14% chance at the top pick. But the new system benefited teams near the middle more allowing the Pelicans, Grizzlies and Los Angeles Lakers to move up."
LA Times: "If the Lakers play it right, they can package this fourth pick with some of their kids for a veteran star who could play alongside LeBron James and help attract a free-agent superstar who could instantly turn them back into championship contenders. If the Lakers play it wrong, they will be stuck with the fourth-best player in a three-player draft. They will have a nice prospect, but they re not in the market for nice prospect. They can throw a draft party, but the hugs will be forced and the champagne will remained iced."
2019 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY PREVIEW
The 2019 NBA Draft Lottery will be held in Chicago on Tuesday, May 14. ESPN will air the results live at 8:30 p.m. ET.
The 35th annual NBA Draft Lottery will determine the order of selection for the first 14 picks of the 2019 NBA Draft. Drawings will be conducted to determine the first four picks in the NBA Draft. The remainder of the lottery teams will select in positions five through 14 in inverse order of their 2018-19 regular-season records. The actual lottery procedure will take place in a separate room just before ESPN s national broadcast. Select media members, NBA officials and representatives of the participating teams and the accounting firm of Ernst & Young will be in attendance for the drawings.
Fourteen ping-pong balls numbered 1 through 14 will be placed in a lottery machine. There are 1,001 possible combinations when four balls are drawn out of 14, without regard to their order of selection. Before the lottery, 1,000 of those 1,001 combinations will be assigned to the 14 participating lottery teams.
The lottery machine is manufactured by the Smart Play Company, a leading manufacturer of state lottery machines throughout the United States. Smart Play also weighs, measures and certifies the ping-pong balls before the drawing.
The drawing process occurs in the following manner: All 14 balls are placed in the lottery machine and they are mixed for 20 seconds, and then the first ball is removed. The remaining balls are mixed in the lottery machine for another 10 seconds, and then the second ball is drawn. There is a 10-second mix, and then the third ball is drawn. There is a 10-second mix, and then the fourth ball is drawn. The team that has been assigned that combination will receive the No. 1 pick. The same process is repeated with the same ping-pong balls and lottery machine for the second through fourth picks.
If the same team comes up more than once, the result is discarded and another four-ball combination is selected. Also, if the one unassigned combination is drawn, the result is discarded and the balls are drawn again.
The length of time the balls are mixed is monitored by a timekeeper who faces away from the machine and signals the machine operator after the appropriate amount of time has elapsed.
Darrington Hobson, a partner in the accounting firm of Ernst & Young, oversees the entire lottery process and stuffs and seals the envelopes before bringing them to the studio for the broadcast. The announcement of the lottery results will be made by NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum. A second representative from each participating team will be seated on stage. Neither the Deputy Commissioner nor the team representatives on stage will be informed of the lottery results before the envelopes are opened.
The team whose logo is in the last envelope opened will have the No. 1 pick in the 2019 NBA Draft, to be held on Thursday, June 20 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
2019 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY ODDS
The NBA draft lottery odds for team-by-team selections changed this year. The team with the worst record used to have a better shot at the No.1 pick. Now, things are way more balanced, and as you can see below, if an NBA team only cares about the top pick in the draft, having the worst record isn't too much of an advantage anymore.
Below are the team odds at winning the top pick in the NBA draft lottery:
UPDATED NBA DRAFT LOTTERY ODDS FOR 2019
Team No. 1 Pick
Team 1 14.0%
Team 2 14.0%
Team 3 14.0%
Team 4 12.5%
Team 5 10.5%
Team 6 9.0%
Team 7 7.5%
Team 8 6.0%
Team 9 4.5%
Team 10 3.0%
Team 11 2.0%
Team 12 1.5%
Team 13 1.0%
Team 14 0.5%
Team Record Win% Lottery Odds New York 17-65 .207 14.0% Cleveland 19-63 .232 14.0% Phoenix 19-63 .232 14.0% Chicago 22-60 .268 12.5% Atlanta 29-53 .354 10.5% Washington 32-50 .390 9.0% New Orleans 33-49 .402 6.0% Memphis1 33-49 .402 6.0% Dallas2 33-49 .402 6.0% Minnesota 36-46 .439 3.0% L.A. Lakers 37-45 .451 2.0% Charlotte 39-43 .476 1.0% Miami 39-43 .476 1.0% Sacramento (to Boston or Philadelphia)3 39-43 .476 1.0%
InsideHoops.com will post results live as they happen, plus complete recaps Tuesday night and additional coverage on Wednesday.
Related Link: NBA Draft Order
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2018 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY
The 2018 NBA Draft Lottery took place May 15 in Chicago. This is what determines the order of lottery pick selection for the 2018 NBA Draft. NBA teams that fail to make the playoffs are called "lottery teams." The first 14 picks in the Draft are called "lottery picks." Further explanation is below.
2018 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY RESULTS
For the first time in franchise history, the Phoenix Suns were awarded the first overall pick in the NBA Draft, winning the 2018 NBA Draft Lottery held tonight in Chicago. The Suns had a 25.0 percent probability of winning the No. 1 pick in the 2018 NBA Draft, highest of any team participating in the Lottery.
This is a historic night for the Phoenix Suns, said General Manager Ryan McDonough. Those of us in the room in Chicago felt the tension, then it was an unbelievable feeling to see it revealed that we received the No. 1 selection. In the illustrious history of the franchise, we ve never had the first overall pick and to bring it home in such a loaded draft at an important point in time for our franchise, it s incredible.
The Suns, who will draft for the 51st time this year, have never before drafted higher than second overall, most recently selecting Armen Gilliam with the second pick of the 1987 NBA Draft. The Suns also used the second overall pick to select Neal Walk in 1969, given the No. 2 pick on March 19, 1969, after losing a coin flip with Milwaukee to determine which team received the No. 1 pick and, eventually, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
By hitting on their 25.0 percent chance to win the top pick, this is the fourth consecutive Lottery in which the team with the highest probability of winning the No. 1 pick won it. Prior to this now four-year run, the team with the best odds of winning the first pick hadn t done so in 10 straight Lotteries from 2005-2014.
The 2018 NBA Draft will be held on Thursday, June 21, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and televised on ESPN at 7 p.m. ET.
The 2018 NBA Draft Lottery results are below:
1. Phoenix
2. Sacramento
3. Atlanta
4. Memphis
5. Dallas
6. Orlando
7. Chicago
8. Cleveland (from Brooklyn via Boston)
9. New York
10. Philadelphia (from Los Angeles Lakers via Phoenix)
11. Charlotte
12. LA Clippers (from Detroit)
13. LA Clippers
14. Denver
The Suns own four overall selections in the 2018 NBA Draft, including two of the top 16 and three of the top 31. In addition to the No. 1 overall pick, the Suns possess the No. 16 (via Miami), No. 31 and No. 59 (via Toronto) selections.
The Dallas Mavericks Assistant Vice President of Basketball Operations Michael Finley issued the following statement at tonight s NBA Draft Lottery: Ultimately, when you are in this position you would love to have the first pick, but we still have a top-five pick with a chance to get a very good player. It is a deep draft with some great young talent and we can still get a player who can come in and help us out immediately. There is a wide variety of talent at the top of this draft and we are hopeful that we can get a guy who will help us not be in this lottery next year. The Mavericks now own the fifth overall selection in the first round of the 2018 NBA Draft.
Sacramento Kings General Manager Vlade Divac issued the following statement: "We couldn t be more thrilled to secure the second selection in this deep and talented draft class. We are well positioned moving ahead and look forward to continuing to develop and improve our team.
Probability suggested this is where we would end up tonight, both keeping the pick and selecting at No. 10. Given the depth of the draft pool, we expect to be in a position to add another talented young piece to our developing core, Philadelphia 76ers President of Basketball Operations Bryan Colangelo said.
2018 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY PREVIEW
On April 13, 2018, five ties among teams that finished the 2017-18 NBA regular season with identical records were broken through random drawings to determine the order of selection for the 2018 NBA Draft 2018.
The results of the April 13 drawings:
- Dallas (24-58) won a tiebreaker with Atlanta.
- Chicago (27-55) won a tiebreaker with Sacramento.
- Miami (44-38) won a tiebreaker with Milwaukee.
- San Antonio (47-35) won a tiebreaker with Minnesota.
- Oklahoma City (48-34) won a tiebreaker with Indiana, New Orleans and Utah. Second, third and fourth place in the tiebreaker drawings went to Utah, New Orleans and Indiana, respectively.
As for the 2018 NBA Draft Lottery, here's what will happen: Drawings will be conducted to determine the first three picks in the 2018 NBA Draft. The remainder of the lottery teams will select in positions 4 through 14 in inverse order of their 2017-18 regular-season records.
The teams entered in the lottery are as follows, with their chances of winning the lottery out of 1,000:
Team: 2018 NBA Draft Lottery Odds/Chances
Phoenix: 250
Memphis: 199
Dallas: 138
Atlanta: 137
Orlando: 88
Chicago: 53
Sacramento: 53
Brooklyn (to Cleveland via Boston): 28
New York: 17
Los Angeles Lakers (to Boston or to Philadelphia): 11
Charlotte: 8
Detroit: 7
LA Clippers: 6
Denver: 5
Those are for 2018 NBA draft picks 1 through 14. As for picks 15-30 in the first round and the entire second round, here is the 2018 NBA draft order.
We'll update all of these pages after the draft lottery is completed.
The info below includes some past results. We'll clean it up and some info about draft lottery history to this page soon as well.
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The Boston Celtics tonight won the NBA Draft Lottery 2017, which was conducted at the New York Hilton Midtown.
Boston will have the first overall pick in the NBA Draft 2017, which will be held on Thursday, June 22 (7 p.m. ET) at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
In case you're wondering why the Celtics had a lottery pick, it was via trade years ago via the Nets. The Celtics had the option to swap picks, and of course since the Nets had a miserable record this season, Boston did elect to do just that.
The following are the results from the 2017 NBA Draft Lottery:
1) Boston (from Brooklyn)
2) L.A. Lakers
3) Philadelphia (from Sacramento)
4) Phoenix
5) Sacramento (from Philadelphia)
6) Orlando
7) Minnesota
8) New York
9) Dallas
10) Sacramento (from New Orleans)
11) Charlotte
12) Detroit
13) Denver
14) Miami
Also see the complete 2017 NBA Draft Order.
2017 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY PREVIEW
The 2017 NBA Draft Lottery, where ping-pong balls supplant basketballs as the tools of determining supremacy, will be held on Tuesday, May 16 and will be shown on ESPN beginning approximately 8:30 EDT.The 33rd annual NBA Draft Lottery will determine the order of selection for the first 14 picks of the 2017 NBA Draft.
The actual Lottery procedure will take place in a separate room just prior to the national broadcast on ESPN. Select media members, NBA officials and representatives of the participating teams and the accounting firm of Ernst & Young will be in attendance for the drawing.
Fourteen ping-pong balls numbered 1 through 14 will be placed in a lottery machine. There are 1,001 possible combinations when four balls are drawn out of 14, without regard to their order of selection. Prior to the lottery, 1,000 of those 1,001 combinations will be assigned to the 14 participating lottery teams.
The lottery machine is manufactured by the Smart Play Company, a leading manufacturer of state lottery machines throughout the United States. Smart Play also weighs, measures and certifies the ping-pong balls prior to the drawing.
The drawing process occurs in the following manner: All 14 balls are placed in the lottery machine and they are mixed for 20 seconds; then the first ball is removed. The remaining balls are mixed in the lottery machine for another 10 seconds, and then second ball is drawn. There is a 10-second mix, and then the third ball is drawn. There is a 10-second mix, and then the fourth ball is drawn. The team that has been assigned that combination will receive the number one pick. The same process is repeated with the same ping-pong balls and lottery machine for the second pick and then again for the third pick.
If the same team comes up more than once, the result is discarded and another 4-ball combination is selected. Also, if the one unassigned combination is drawn, the result is discarded and the balls are drawn again.
The length of time the balls are mixed is monitored by a timekeeper who faces away from the machine and signals the machine operator after the appropriate amount of time has elapsed.
The Brooklyn Nets finished the season with the NBA s worst record (20-62) and Boston received Brooklyn s pick via trade, so the Celtics will be assigned the first 250 combinations. The Miami Heat, the best team in the lottery at 41-41, will have only five combinations out of 1,000.
The order of selection for the teams that do not win one of the top three picks will be determined by inverse order of their regular-season record. Thus, Boston can pick no lower than fourth and Phoenix (24-58) no lower than fifth.
Denise Pelli, a partner in the accounting firm of Ernst & Young, overseas the entire lottery process and stuffs and seals the envelopes prior to bringing them to the studio for the broadcast. The announcement of the Lottery results will be made by NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum. A second representative from each participating team will be seated on stage. Neither the Deputy Commissioner nor the team representatives on stage will be informed of the Lottery results prior to the opening of the envelopes.
The team whose logo is in the last envelope opened will pick first in the 2017 NBA Draft, to be held on Thursday, June 22 at Barclays Center.
2017 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY ODDS OF GETTING A TOP THREE PICK
#1 #2 #3 1) Boston/Brooklyn 25.00% 21.50% 17.76% 2) Phoenix 19.90% 18.81% 17.11% 3) LA Lakers 15.60% 15.74% 15.58% 4) Philly 11.90% 12.60% 13.29% 5) Orlando 8.80% 9.65% 10.67% 6) Minnesota 5.30% 6.03% 6.98% 7) New York 5.30% 6.03% 6.98% 8) Sacramento 2.80% 3.26% 3.88% 9) Dallas 1.70% 2.00% 2.41% 10) New Orleans 1.10% 1.30% 1.58% 11) Charlotte 0.80% 0.95% 1.15% 12) Detroit 0.70% 0.83% 1.01% 13) Denver 0.60% 0.71% 0.87% 14) Miami 0.50% 0.59% 0.72%
2017 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY ON-STAGE PARTICIPANTS
Boston Wyc Grousbeck, Owner
Charlotte Rich Cho, Executive Vice President & General Manager
Dallas Michael Finley, Asst VP of Basketball Operations
Denver Gary Harris, Player
Detroit Jeff Bower, General Manager
L.A. Lakers Magic Johnson, President of Basketball Operations
Miami Alonzo Mourning, Vice President, Player Programs
Minnesota Andrew Wiggins, Player
New Orleans Alvin Gentry, Head Coach
New York Walt Frazier, Broadcaster
Orlando Frank Vogel, Head Coach
Philadelphia Joel Embiid, Player
Phoenix - Devin Booker, Player
Sacramento Dave Joerger, Head Coach
2017 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY ROOM PARTICIPANTS
Boston Steve Pagliuca, Limited Partner
Charlotte Chan Buchanan, Assistant General Manager
Dallas Keith Grant, Assistant General Manager
Denver Tim Connelly, General Manager, Executive VP of Basketball Operations
Detroit Cletus Lewis Jr., Sr. Director of Public Relations
L.A. Lakers Rob Pelinka, General Manager, Basketball Operations
Miami Andy Elisburg, Senior Vice President Basketball Operations/General Manager
Minnesota Brad Ruiter, VP Communications
New Orleans Matthew Ryan, Director of Basketball Communications
New York Jamie Mathews, Vice President of Basketball Operations
Orlando Pat Williams, Senior Vice President
Philadelphia Art Wrubel, Owner
Phoenix - Julie Fie, Vice President, Basketball Communications
Sacramento Anthony McClish, Senior Manager, Basketball Operations & Asst General Manager, Reno Bighorns
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2016 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY RESULTS
The following are the results from the 2016 NBA Draft Lottery, which took place tonight at the New York Hilton Midtown:
The Philadelphia 76ers will have the first overall pick in the 2016 NBA Draft, which will be held in Brooklyn at Barclays Center on Thursday, June 23. The draft will air live on ESPN and ESPN Radio at 7 p.m. ET.
According to the Orange County Register, "First, 14 pingpong balls numbered were individually placed in a machine manufactured by Smart Play Company, which the NBA said weighed, measured and certified the pingpong balls. Kyle Yelencsics, an associate coordinator with the NBA, then clicked a stopwatch before raising his left arm to signal for the machine to stop after 20 seconds passed. During this process, Yelencsics faced away from the machine on the other side of the room. Lou DiSabatino, the NBA s vice president of events and attractions, then followed Yelencsics silent orders and pulled a small lever to release one of the balls through a vertical tube. Kiki Vandeweghe, the NBA s senior vice president of basketball operations, then took the ball and read it aloud. Unlike the proceedings that were announced at halftime of the Cavaliers-Raptors playoff game, the real draft order was determined in ascending order. So the Sixers first learned they landed the No. 1 pick, which had a 25 percent chance of happening."
2016 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY RESULTS
1. Philadelphia
2. Los Angeles Lakers
3. Boston (From Brooklyn)
4. Phoenix
5. Minnesota
6. New Orleans
7. Denver (From New York)
8. Sacramento
9. Toronto (From Denver via New York)
10. Milwaukee
11. Orlando
12. Utah
13. Phoenix (From Washington)
14. Chicago
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The 2015 NBA Draft Lottery took place Tuesday night, May 19. InsideHoops.com attended, as always. This is the order of team selection for the first round of the 2015 NBA Draft: 14) Thunder, 13) Suns, 12) Jazz, 11) Pacers, 10) Heat, 9) Hornets, 8) Pistons, 7) Nuggets, 6) Kings, 5) Magic, 4) Knicks, 3) Sixers, 2) Lakers, 1) Timberwolves.
2015 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY PREVIEW
The 2015 NBA Draft Lottery, where ping-pong balls supplant basketballs as the tools of determining supremacy, will be held at the New York Hilton Midtown on Tuesday, May 19 and will be televised on ESPN at approximately 8:30 p.m. EDT.
The 31st annual NBA Draft Lottery will determine the order of selection for the first 14 picks of the 2015 NBA Draft.
The actual Lottery procedure will take place in a separate room just prior to the national broadcast on ESPN.
Fourteen ping-pong balls numbered 1 through 14 will be placed in a lottery machine. There are 1,001 possible combinations when four balls are drawn out of 14, without regard to their order of selection. Prior to the lottery, 1,000 of those 1,001 combinations will be assigned to the 14 participating lottery teams.
The lottery machine is manufactured by the Smart Play Company, a leading manufacturer of state lottery machines throughout the United States. Smart Play also weighs, measures and certifies the ping-pong balls prior to the drawing.
The drawing process occurs in the following manner: All 14 balls are placed in the lottery machine and they are mixed for 20 seconds; then the first ball is removed. The remaining balls are mixed in the lottery machine for another 10 seconds, and then second ball is drawn. There is a 10-second mix, and then the third ball is drawn. There is a 10-second mix, and then the fourth ball is drawn. The team that has been assigned that combination will receive the number one pick. The same process is repeated with the same ping-pong balls and lottery machine for the second pick and then again for the third pick.
If the same team comes up more than once, the result is discarded and another 4-ball combination is selected. Also, if the one unassigned combination is drawn, the balls are drawn to the top again.
The length of time the balls are mixed is monitored by a timekeeper who faces away from the machine and signals the machine operator after the appropriate amount of time has elapsed.
The Minnesota Timberwolves finished the season with the NBA s worst record (16-66), so they will be assigned the first 250 combinations. The Oklahoma City Thunder, the best team in the lottery at 45-37, will have only five combinations out of 1,000.
The order of selection for the teams that do not win one of the top three picks will be determined by inverse order of their regular-season record. Thus, Minnesota can pick no lower than fourth, New York (17-65) no lower than fifth and Philadelphia (18-64) no lower than sixth.
Denise Pelli, a partner in the accounting firm of Ernst & Young, overseas the entire lottery process and stuffs and seals the envelopes prior to bringing them to the studio for the broadcast. The announcement of the Lottery results will be made by NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum. A second representative from each participating team will be seated on stage. Neither the Deputy Commissioner nor the team representatives on stage will be informed of the Lottery results prior to the opening of the envelopes.
The team whose logo is in the last envelope opened will pick first in the 2015 NBA Draft, to be held on Thursday, June 25 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
InsideHoops.com attends/covers the NBA Draft Lottery, and every aspect of the NBA draft, each year.
2015 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY PERCENT CHANCE TO WIN FIRST PICK
May 18, 2015
Below are the percentage chance that each team has at winning the No.1 pick in the 2015 NBA Draft:
1 Minnesota 25.00%
2 New York 19.90%
3 Philadelphia 15.60%
4 LA Lakers 11.90%
5 Orlando 8.80%
6 Sacramento 6.30%
7 Denver 4.30%
8 Detroit 2.80%
9 Charlotte 1.70%
10 Miami 1.10%
11 Indiana 0.80%
12 Utah 0.70%
13 Phoenix 0.60%
14 Oklahoma City 0.50%
History of NBA Draft Lottery's Development
May 18, 2015
The NBA Board of Governors, meeting in Salt Lake City in June of 1984, voted to adopt a lottery system among the nonplayoff teams to determine their order of selection in the first round of the NBA Draft beginning in 1985.
From 1966 through 1984, the teams that finished with the worst records in each conference participated in a coin flip to determine which team would draft first. The remaining teams picked in inverse order of their wonlost records. Under the system adopted prior to the 1985 NBA Draft, the NBA Lottery determines the order of selection for the nonplayoff teams (or the teams holding their picks through trades) for the first round only. Teams pick in inverse order of their records in the second round (or, prior to the draft being reduced to two rounds in 1989, in all succeeding rounds).
Under a procedural change adopted by the Board of Governors in April of 1986, the Lottery determines the order of selection for the first three teams only. The remaining nonplayoff teams select in inverse order of their regular season records. Therefore, the team with the worst record in the league is assured of picking no worse than fourth, the team with the secondworst record no worse than fifth and so on.
In a further refinement in October of 1989, the Board of Governors adopted a weighted system beginning with the 1990 NBA Draft Lottery, which included 11 teams due to expansion. The team with the worst record during the regular season received 11 chances at the top pick (out of a total of 66), the secondworst team got 10 chances and the team with the best record among the nonplayoff clubs got one chance.
The Board of Governors approved a modification of the Lottery system in November of 1993 that, effective with the 1994 NBA Draft Lottery, increased the chances of the teams with the worst records in the league winning one of the top three picks in the draft while decreasing the lottery chances of the teams with the best records. The new system increased the chances of the team with the worst record drawing the first pick in the draft from 16.7 percent to 25 percent, while decreasing the chances of the team with the best record among lottery teams from 1.5 percent to 0.5 percent.
Under the system, 14 pingpong balls numbered 1 through 14 are placed in a drum. There are 1,001 possible combinations when four balls are drawn out of 14, without regard to their order of selection. Prior to the Lottery, 1,000 combinations are assigned to the Lottery teams based on their order of finish during the regular season. Four balls are drawn to the top to determine a four- digit combination. The team that has been assigned that combination will receive the number one pick. The four balls are placed back in the drum and the process is repeated to determine the number two and three picks. (Note: If the one unassigned combination is drawn, the balls are drawn to the top again.)
In October of 1995, the Board of Governors increased the number of teams participating in the Lottery from 11 to 13 to account for the addition of expansion teams Toronto and Vancouver. Starting in 1996, the team with the worst record in the Lottery continued to have a 25% chance of winning the first pick, teams two through six have slightly fewer chances, team seven has the same number of chances and teams eight through 12 have slightly more chances. The number of chances for team 13 did not change.
The 2004 NBA Draft Lottery increased to 14 teams with the addition of the Charlotte Bobcats. The Bobcats, as part of their expansion agreement were locked into the fourth position in the 2004 Draft and therefore did not have a chance to receive other picks in the Lottery. The 2015 NBA Draft Lottery decides picks one through 14 and the chances are below for each teams odds to receive the number one selection in the 2015 NBA Draft.
Generic NBA Draft Lottery Team Odds Breakdown
Team 1: 250
Team 2: 199
Team 3: 156
Team 4: 119
Team 5: 88
Team 6: 63
Team 7: 43
Team 8: 28
Team 9: 17
Team 10: 11
Team 11: 8
Team 12: 7
Team 13: 6
Team 14: 5
Note: Tied teams split the number of chances and a blind draw determines which team receives an extra chance if the combined number of chances can not be split evenly.
2014 NBA Draft Lottery Results
The Cleveland Cavaliers, who had a 1.7 percent chance of obtaining the first selection, shockingly beat the odds to win the first overall pick in NBA Draft 2014:
1. Cleveland
2. Milwaukee
3. Philadelphia
4. Orlando
5. Utah
6. Boston
7. LA Lakers
8. Sacramento
9. Charlotte (From Detroit)
10. Philadelphia (From New Orleans)
11. Denver
12. Orlando (From New York via Denver)
13. Minnesota
14. Phoenix