NBA draft lottery, set for Tuesday night, to be tweaked to discourage tanking
The NBA draft lottery — the last before changes come next year to dissuade tanking — is Tuesday night, helping decide the futures of the 14 teams involved in the draw to decide who drafts No. 1 next month.
Phoenix has a 25 percent chance of winning the No. 1 pick, followed by Memphis (19.9 percent), Dallas (13.8 percent) and Atlanta (13.7 percent). The rest of the candidates for No. 1 are Orlando (8.8 percent), Chicago (5.3), Sacramento (5.3), Cleveland (2.8), New York (1.7), Philadelphia (1.1), Charlotte (0.8), Detroit (0.7), the Los Angeles Clippers (0.6) and Denver (0.5).
Many of those teams were at the center of tanking questions this season. Now they’ll see whether it pays off.