From NBA.com Code: [B]ROUND 1[/B] [B]PICK NO.[/B] [B]TEAM[/B] [B]SELECTION[/B] 1 L.A. Clippers 2 Memphis 3 Oklahoma City 4 Sacramento 5 Washington 6 Minnesota 7 Golden State 8 New York 9 Toronto 10 Milwaukee 11 New Jersey 12 Charlotte 13 Indiana 14 Phoenix 15 Detroit 16 Chicago 17 Philadelphia 18 Miami (to Minnesota) 19 Atlanta 20 Utah 21 New Orleans 22 Dallas 23 Houston (to Sacramento) 24 Portland 25 San Antonio (to Oklahoma City) 26 Denver (to Chicago via Oklahoma City) 27 Orlando (to Memphis) 28 Boston (to Minnesota) 29 L.A. Lakers 30 Cleveland [B] ROUND 2[/B] [B]PICK NO.[/B] [B]TEAM[/B] [B]SELECTION[/B] 31 Sacramento 32/33 L.A. Clippers (to Portland) 32/33 Washington 34 Oklahoma City (to Denver) 35/36 Memphis 35/36 Minnesota (to Detroit) 37 Golden State (to San Antonio via Phoenix) 38 New York (to Portland via Chicago) 39 Toronto (to Detroit) 40/41 New Jersey (to Charlotte via OKC) 40/41 Milwaukee 42 Charlotte (to L.A. Lakers) 43 Indiana (to Miami) 44 Detroit 45 Philadelphia (to Minnesota via Miami) 46 Chicago (to Cleveland) 47 Miami (to Minnesota) 48 Phoenix 49 Atlanta 50 Utah 51 New Orleans (to San Antonio via Toronto) 52 Dallas (to Indiana) 53 Houston (to San Antonio) 54 Denver (to Portland) 55 Denver (to Portland) 56 Portland 57 Orlando (to Phoenix via Oklahoma City) 58 Boston 59 L.A. Lakers 60 Cleveland (to Miami)
Kings got screwed by the draft lottery...seems like the worst team in the league hardly ever gets the top pick; and often drops out of the top 3. Good incentive for teams NOT to tank the rest of the season.
Only 2 times in the past 20 years has the team with the worst record won. I believe the draft lotto achieves it's goal. To keep teams from tanking. If you haven't learned by now, you will never learn. The facts are, chances are against the team with the worst record to get the #1 pick, 75% chance they will not get it.
However, the process is still a lottery and is based completely on chance. If I'm a team going into it, I'd still like the most odds.
agreed there. Its easy to say that there is a %75 chance that they dont get it.. but the odds are even worse for the other teams. like %83 chance that they dont, and so on.
Yea that is a mixed bag. If you are loosing too much, free agents don't want to play for your team. Not any you want anyhow. On the other hand, if you look at the teams that have won, most of them have either struck gold with a #1 draft pick, or traded for a player who was a #1 draft pick. The exceptions over recent years being Detroit and Boston. The only reason KG wasn't picked #1 then, was you didn't pick high schoolers #1 back then. The only teams that really haven't struck gold with the #1, are the teams that blew their pick.
