What is the nba draft lottery?

23 hours ago ... Missing the playoffs is the worst, but one benefit of the NBA is that the lottery gives anyone who misses the playoffs a shot at the No. 1 overall pick. Whether you want DeAndre Ayton, Jaren Jackson Jr. or Marvin Bagley III, there are several players ready to make an immediate impact in this draft. read more

The NBA Draft lottery is an annual event held by the National Basketball Association (NBA), in which the teams who had missed the playoffs that previous year participate in a lottery process to determine the draft order in the NBA draft. The NBA Draft lottery started in 1985. read more

The 2016 NBA Draft Lottery, where ping-pong balls supplant basketballs as the tools of determining supremacy, will be held at the New York Hilton Midtown on Tuesday, May 17 and will be televised on ESPN at approximately 8:00 p.m. EDT. read more

The NBA Draft lottery will take place Tuesday night in Chicago (7:30 p.m. ET, ESPN). The NBA Draft Combine will also take place in Chicago from Wednesday through Sunday (May 16-20). The NBA Draft will return to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., on June 21. read more