What is at stake for the Sixers and how the drawing actually works

It has been eight years since the 76 part of the NBA lottery of the NBA, which determined the order of the top -14 selection.

That is the result of her terrible, injury-stretched season from 2024-25. The Sixers spent their last weeks “tanking” – or made less priority by resting injured players and veterans and getting younger players most of the minutes – to increase these lottery opportunities. The plan was largely successful when the Sixers ended with the fifth educational record of the NBA at 24-58.

Here is a refreshment about how the design of the lottery works:

When is the design of the lottery?

May 12 in Chicago. TV reporting begins at 7 p.m. on ESPN.

How does the design of the lottery work?

The 14 teams that have not made the playoffs are placed in a lottery – yes, with real Pingpong balls! – to determine the four best selections in the draft.

The worse the regular season record of a team is worse, the greater its chances of landing the No. 1 selection (or two to four). Since 2019, however, the NBA has flattened out the chances and gave the teams the same 14% chance with the three worst records to make the top selection. This change was an attempt to discourage refueling by giving participating teams with better records a significantly higher chance of increasing in the lottery. However, the team with the worst record of the regular season cannot be beaten lower than the fifth.

The actual lottery drawing takes place in a separate room before unveiling on live television. A small collection of NBA officials, team representatives, media and civil servants by Ernst & Young (who monitors the process) will observe the drawing, but it is prohibited to use communication devices or to leave it until the results are publicly shared.

Fourteen Pingpong balls with numbers from 1 to 14 are placed in the lottery. Before the drawing begins, a collection of combinations with four of these 14 numbers is assigned to each team (there are 1,001 possible combinations). The team with the first four-number combination receives the No. 1 selection and so on until the fourth election was set. If the same team appears twice, this combination is rejected and the numbers are re -drawn.

The remaining teams will select the fifth to 14th place so that the worst record of the regular season is up to the best.

After the combinations were drawn and the remaining order was determined, envelopes are stuffed and sealed and then brought to the studio for the show. Mark Tatum, the deputy commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of the NBA, will announce the command of 14 to 1, with another representative sitting on stage from each team.

What is at stake for the Sixers in the design lottery?

The first choice of Sixers 2025 is “top-Six-protected” because it is a capital that was part of a trade in 2020 with the Oklahoma City Thunder. This means that the Sixers keep the choice when they end up in the lottery or higher in the lottery. If it ends up in the seventh or lower country, it goes to the thunder.

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So the operations are massive. Keeping the choice would be a silver strip that comes out of this lost season, while it would make even more flop when it was lost. If the Sixers keep the selection, you can use this selection to select a potential customer in the design or to include it as part of a new trade.

What are the chances of the Sixers in the design of the lottery?

The most important number of Sixers is 64%. These are the chances that they end up in the top six and keep their selection. You have a chance of 10.5%to win the lottery and number 1.

Here are the chances of the other teams to make the top selection:

Utah jazz: 14%

Washington Wizards: 14%

Charlotte Hornets: 14%

New Orleans Pelicans: 12%

Brooklyn Nets: 9%

Toronto Raptors: 7.5%

San Antonio Spurs: 6%

Phoenix Suns (pick exchanged over Brooklyn Nets to Houston Rockets): 3.8%

Portland Trail Blazer: 3.7%

Dallas Mavericks: 1.8%

Chicago Bulls: 1.7%

Sacramento Kings: 0.8%

Atlanta Hawks (Pice Tawed to San Antonio Spurs): 0.7%

The flag effect

This year's Draft lottery is particularly juicy because the top prospects are available: Cooper Flag.

Flagg, a 6-foot 9 striker from Duke, is considered a franchise changing due to its diverse and sophisticated skills at both ends of the soil, its NBA-capable frame and its natural feeling for the game.

But even after flag, evaluators rate this design class as rich in talent and potential. Others who could be selected in the top six are:

Dylan Harper, Rutgers Guard

Ace Bailey, Rutger's wing

VJ Edgecompbe, Baylor Guard

Tre Johnson, Texas wing

Kon Knueppel, duke wing

Khaman Maluach, Duke Center

Kasparas Jakucionis, Illinois Guard

Derik Queen, Maryland great man

Jeremiah fears, Oklahoma Guard

Collin Murray boys, South Carolina wing

Daryl Morey President of Sixers President of Basketball said at his press conference on April 13 that the front office would choose the best available prospects regardless of the position.

The earlier lottery results of the Sixers results

The Sixers' Draft lottery positioning was of course the most Buwworthy in the process years when it was the main goal of the acquisition of high picks.

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In 2010, the lottery moved the Sixers from the sixth to the second when they chose Evan Turner. In 2014, they followed third to third place and took Joel Embiid. Their positioning was unchanged in 2016 when they finished Ben Simmons first and in 2015, when they took Jahlil Okafor in third place. These drawings were all before flattening the lottery.

In the 2017 lottery, the Sixers also moved to fifth place. Before he made a trade to take the top and select Markelle Fultz.

The latest lottery results of the NBA

Since the league flattened the lottery chances, a team with a 14% chance of receiving the top selection has received in four of the six years. All four players 'and Victor Wembanyama by San Antonio Spurs, Paolo Bancchero (2022) by Orlando Magic, Cade Cunningham (2021) Detroit Pistons, and Minnesota Timberwolves' Anthony Edwards (2020)-at least once in their herbs.

Two teams unexpectedly shot the top during the flattened era. Zion Williamson took the pelicans, who had a chance of 6% in number 1 in 2019. And last year the Hawks had a 3% chance of winning the lottery and selected them by selecting Zachharie Risacher.

When is the NBA design?

25.-26. June in Brooklyn.