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Rakets appear with Sun's pick

Rakets appear with Sun's pick

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At the end of the regular season it became a meme: a Venn diagram of two circles: teams that made the playoffs or playing in a circle with teams in the NBA-draft lottery in the other. Some teams in the slim edge of the circles that crossed in the middle were lucky enough to meet the off-season, and still have a lottery from a trade with a lottery squad.

The Phoenix Suns were the only team outside one of the two circles.

Her unprotected selection of 2025 in the first round was sent to Brooklyn Nets in Kevin Durant Trade before three February, and the networks last summer sent them to the Houston Rockets in the deal.

The design of the lottery at 4 p.m. Mast determined where the rockets could select the Suns selection, which has the new chances due to the Sun's 36-46 records of the Sun.

Where this works on Monday is one thing that has to be observed in Phoenix to lose his choice in the Durant Deal.

Houston made the playoffs as No. 2 in the Western Conference, fell into the Golden State Warriors in the first round. You are not only seen as a potential trading partner when Phoenix pulls out Durant, but also one of the most loaded teams loaded by asset.

The Rockets have a chance of 3.8%to achieve number 1, at which the price is a potential generation talent in the Duke striker Cooper Flagg. You also have a 17.3% shot to achieve a top-four election.

There is probably a number of Jumbo waking like Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey from Rutgers, Duke -Shooter Kon Knueppel and Baylor's Swiss Army knife against Edgecomb.

From there, the level becomes a selection in which the position priorities come into play more. The Duke-Zentrum Khaman Maluach and Maryland Scoring Center Derik Queen are also in the area of ​​the Arizona High School (Compass PREP) and the Oklahoma newcomer Jeremiah Fears, which quickly passed from the middle school to NBA view.

2025 NBA Draft Lottery opportunities

1 17-65 .207 52.1% 14.0%
2 18-64 .220 52.1% 14.0%
3 19-63 .232 52.1% 14.0%
4 21-61 .256 48.1% 12.5%
5

Philadelphia (goes to OKC, if not top 6)

 24-58 .293 42.1% 10.5%
6 26-56 .317 37.2% 9.0%
7 30-52 5-5 31.9% 7.5%
8 34-48 .415 26.3% 6.0%
9 36-46 .439

 17.3%

 3.8%
10 36-46 .439

 16.9%

 3.7%
11 39-43 .476

 8.5%

 1.8%
12 39-43 .476

 8.0%

 1.7%
13

Atlanta (about Sacramento, if not under 12)

 40-42 .488

 3.8%

 0.8%
14

San Antonio (via Atlanta)

 40-42 .488

 3.4%

 0.7%

How does the NBA design of the lottery work?

The Associated Press – At around 3 p.m. Mast Monday, locked up in a safe room without communicating with the outside world, team managers and others will see how 14 ping pong balls jump in a machine.

The balls are numbered, from 1 to 14. One is drawn, then a second, then a third and then a fourth. And with that, people in this room will find out one hour before the rest of the world that the team won number 1 in the NBA design next month.

The NBA Draft Lottery is on Monday evening in Chicago, and the winner has the chance to choose number 1 as a whole. And that means that Dukes Cooper Flag – the probable no. 1 selection – will have a good chance of knowing which city will call home next season as soon as the lottery results are announced.

Nobody in the room where the results are revealed on a television program will know who the lottery has won until the deputy commissioner Mark Tatum makes the actual announcement. Up to this point, those in the room remain there without their phones.

The race for No. 1
There are 13 teams with the chance to win No. 1 selection. Utah, Washington and Charlotte have the best chances, each 14%.

New Orleans has a chance of 12.5%, Philadelphia an opportunity of 10.5%, Brooklyn an opportunity of 9%, Toronto an opportunity of 7.5%and San Antonio an opportunity of 6.7%.

According to this, it is Houston (3.8%), Portland (3.7%), Dallas (1.8%), Chicago (1.7%) and Sacramento (0.8%).

The reason why there are 14 lottery spots, but only 13 teams with the chance to win number 1 is that the chances of Atlanta to San Antonio convey, which means that the Spurs are twice in the lottery with a 6% chance to win alone, and a chance of 0.7%, with the Hawks combinations of ping pong balls.

This system has been available since 2019 to keep tanking -the training in which teams are not excessively interested in gaining regular seasonal games with hopes instead of improving their chances of winning the number 1 -draft pick.

The teams with the three worst records all have the same chance -14% -to win No. 1 selection, and the opportunities for the remaining lottery teams are gradually reduced from there.


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