The Conference Finals are in full swing, but the NBA’s attention will be turned, at least temporarily, to the draft tonight (June 22nd).
The annual selection process is still over a month away; but the identity of the team that will make the first overall selection on July 29th will be revealed at the draft lottery drawing on Tuesday.
The 14 teams that missed the NBA playoffs this season will participate in the lottery draw process that will determine the order of the first 14 picks in next month’s draft.
Everything you need to know is here.
When is the NBA Draft Lottery?
The NBA Draft Lottery drawing process is scheduled for Tuesday, June 22nd at 8:30 p.m. ET, and the NBA Draft will take place late next month on Thursday, July 29th. The free agency phase is scheduled to begin the following week.
Here’s how to watch the NBA Draft Lottery
The event will be broadcast on ESPN, with live stream available on the WatchESPN app, and the lottery drawing will take place prior to the start of the ESPN broadcast, which will include announcing the order of picks for the 2021 NBA draft.
How does the NBA draft lottery work?
The 14 teams that failed to make the playoffs last season will be entered into the NBA Draft Lottery drawing, with the worst-scoring teams from the regular season all having an equal chance of winning the Draft Lottery.
In practice, that means the Houston Rockets, Detroit Pistons, and Orlando Magic all have a 14 percent chance of landing the first overall pick in the 2021 NBA draft.
Before the 2019 NBA streamlined the process, the team with the worst preseason record had a 25 percent chance of winning the draft lottery, while the teams with the second and third worst records had a 19.9 percent chance, respectively. 15.6 percent had.
Before 2019, the team with the worst record was guaranteed not to be lower than the fourth, while it now receives a tip that is no worse than a total of five.
Fourteen ping pong balls number 1 through 14 are placed in a lottery machine before being mixed for 20 seconds.
As prodie NBA: “There are 1001 possible combinations when four of 14 balls are drawn, regardless of the order in which they are selected. Before the lottery, 1,000 of these 1,001 combinations are allocated to the 14 participating lottery teams.”
After the 20-second mix, the first ball is removed while the remaining 13 balls are used for another 10. seconds before a second ball is drawn.
After another 10-second mix, a third ball is drawn. The remaining 11 balls are shuffled again for 10 seconds before a fourth ball assigned to that combination is drawn, receiving overall tip # 1 before repeating the process for tips two through four.
After the first four picks are confirmed, the remaining 10 lottery teams vote in reverse order from their regular season record.
NBA Draft Lottery 2021 Quoten
- Houston Rockets> 14.00 percent
- Detroit Pistons> 14.00 Percent
- Orlando Magic> 14.00 percent
- Oklahoma City Thunder> 11.50 percent
- Cleveland Cavaliers> 11.50 percent
- Minnesota Timberwolves> 9.00 percent
- Toronto Raptors> 7.50 percent
- Chicago Bulls> 4.50 percent
- Sacramento Kings> 4.50 Percent
- New Orleans Pelicans> 4.50 percent
- Charlotte Hornets> 1.80 percent
- San Antonio Spurs> 1.70 percent
- Indiana Pacers> 1.00 percent
- Golden State Warriors> 0.50 percent
