Tied No More: Ties Breakers Have Been Broken For the Order Selection of the NBA Draft

Eldorado2452 April 13, 2018 0

The NBA playoffs kickoff on Saturday but the NBA is also preparing for the 2018 NBA draft!

Five ties among teams that finished the 2017-18 NBA regular season with identical records were broken today through random drawings to determine the order of selection for NBA Draft 2018 presented by State Farm.

The drawings were conducted by NBA Executive Vice President, Basketball Operations Kiki VanDeWeghe at the St. Regis Hotel in New York and broadcast live on NBA TV. The tiebreaker process was overseen by Darrington Hobson, a representative from the accounting firm of Ernst & Young.

The results of the 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.

NBA Draft Lottery 2018 presented by State Farm will be held on Tuesday, May 15 in Chicago. NBA Draft 2018 presented by State Farm will take place on Thursday, June 21 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Below is the order of selection for NBA Draft 2018 presented by State Farm and the number of chances for teams in NBA Draft Lottery 2018 presented by State Farm.

2018 FIRST ROUND DRAFT CHOICE ORDER

Drawings will be conducted at NBA Draft Lottery 2018 presented by State Farm to determine the first three picks in NBA Draft 2018 presented by State Farm. 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 Phoenix	Record 21-61	Win% .256	Lottery Chances 250
Memphis	22-60	.268	199
Dallas	24-58	.293	138
Atlanta	24-58	.293	137
Orlando	25-57	.305	88
Chicago	27-55	.329	53
Sacramento	27-55	.329	53
Brooklyn (to Cleveland via Boston)	28-54	.341	28
New York	29-53	.354	17
Los Angeles Lakers (to Boston or to Philadelphia)¹	35-47	.427	11
Charlotte	36-46	.439	8
Detroit²	39-43	.476	7
LA Clippers	42-40	.512	6
Denver	46-36	.561	5

The order for the remainder of the first-round picks is as follows:

Team 15. Washington	Record 43-39	Win% .524
16. Miami (to Phoenix)	44-38	.537
17. Milwaukee	44-38	.537
18. San Antonio	47-35	.573
19. Minnesota (to Atlanta)	47-35	.573
20. Oklahoma City (to Minnesota via Utah)	48-34	.585
21. Utah	48-34	.585
22. New Orleans (to Chicago)	48-34	.585
23. Indiana	48-34	.585
24. Portland	49-33	.598
25. Cleveland (to Los Angeles Lakers)	50-32	.610
26. Philadelphia	52-30	.634
27. Boston	55-27	.671
28. Golden State	58-24	.707
29. Toronto (to Brooklyn)	59-23	.720
30. Houston (to Atlanta via LA Clippers)	65-17	.793

1 This pick will be conveyed to Boston via Philadelphia via Phoenix or to Philadelphia via Phoenix.

2 This pick may be conveyed to LA Clippers.

2018 SECOND ROUND DRAFT CHOICE ORDER

31. Phoenix
32. Memphis
33./34. Atlanta
33./34. Dallas
35. Orlando
36./37. Sacramento
36./37. Chicago (to New York via Oklahoma City)
38. Brooklyn (to Philadelphia)
39. New York (to Philadelphia)
40. Los Angeles Lakers (to Brooklyn via Toronto via Orlando)
41. Charlotte (to Orlando via Phoenix via Memphis) 42. Detroit 43. LA Clippers (to Denver via New York via Philadelphia) 44. Denver (to Los Angeles Lakers via Chicago via Utah) 45. Washington 46. Milwaukee (to Brooklyn) 47. Miami (to Houston via Memphis) 48. Minnesota 49. San Antonio 50. Indiana 51. New Orleans 52. Utah 53. Oklahoma City 54. Portland (to Dallas via Denver) 55. Cleveland (to Charlotte via Brooklyn via Philadelphia) 56. Philadelphia 57. Boston (to Oklahoma City) 58. Golden State (to Denver) 59. Toronto (to Phoenix) 60. Houston (to Philadelphia)