draft lottery

Tanking, long a dirty little secret in the NBA dating back even to the 1990s (the 1996-97 Spurs tanked to get the No. 1 pick and draft Tim Duncan…) has became so egregious and thinly veiled over the past decade with the 76ers making it in vogue and doing it rather successfully that the cat [...]

We are about a month out from the 2018 NBA Draft class making their NBA debuts after being highly touted prep, collegiate and international players. Soon we will start to see who some of the stars of tomorrow may be. Who from this class will have the best rookie season and who will have the [...]

The NBA has taken the next step toward draft-lottery reform. According to ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the NBA’s competition committee has officially recommended the latest lottery reform proposal, which means the Association’s board of governors will be putting it to a vote later this month. Woj has more details: NBA commissioner Adam Silver has been determined [...]

As was first reported last week, the NBA is looking into lottery reform yet again to discourage tanking and help prevent the same team from getting a top three pick in consecutive seasons. While the first proposal was to flat out deny teams from having a top three pick two years in a row, the [...]

Roughly six milliseconds after the Los Angeles Lakers won the second-overall pick in the NBA’s draft lottery, word came that there are “multiple” teams “evaluating” trade packages for D’Angelo Russell. Here are the juicy deets, as relayed by SI.com’s Jake Fischer: With the Los Angeles Lakers coming away with the No. 2 overall pick in [...]

Joel Embiid was feeling himself, and his Philadelphia 76ers, after the draft lottery. Though the Los Angeles Lakers’ top-three-protected pick didn’t convey, the Sixers were able to execute their pick swap with the Sacramento Kings, vaulting into the top three selections themselves. With Markelle Fultz still expected to go first overall, this puts them in [...]

June 5, 2012 – Ben Berry In 1996, Scottie Pippen debuted the Air Pippen while the year earlier in 1995 Chris Webber did the same with the Air Max Sensation. Both pairs feature the respective player’s jersey number on a ball similar to the ones used in the draft as the insole image. Whether this [...]

May 19, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors Following Tuesday night’s NBA draft lottery, Timberwolves GM David Kahn suggested that the lottery is rigged after his team ended up with the second pick rather than the top pick. That got many people talking and he has since backed off his claim, saying that he was joking. [...]