The NBA draft is only confusing because of the lottery which was implemented in order to keep teams from throwing games in order to gain better draft position. The draft is only two rounds where the team with the worst record has the first pick in each round, and the team with the best record has the last pick of each round. This is not entirely true because of the draft lottery. In the draft, the 13 teams that do not make the playoffs the previous year are placed in the lottery. Of those thirteen teams, the best team, the 13th, gets 1 ping-pong ball in the lottery. The worst team, the 1st, gets 13 ping-pong balls. The second worst gets 12 balls and so on. All of the ping-pong balls are placed in a hopper, and three balls are drawn. The team with the first ball drawn gets the first pick in the first round. That team then has all of their balls removed from the hopper. The team that has their ball drawn as the second ball gets the second pick in the draft, and the third ball gets the third pick. After the first three, the teams who did not have balls drawn are then placed in order from worst record to best. The lottery does not apply to the second round of the draft, in which the order is entirely based on records. This way a team with the worst record is only guaranteed the 4th pick in the draft, though they are most likely to win the lottery. The lottery is what allowed the Houston Rockets to select Yao Ming with the first pick in 2002, despite the fact that there were 4 teams with worse records than the Rockets.

NBA Draft Lottery: http://www.nba.com/news/lottery02_evolution.html TODAY'S LOTTERY Under the system, 14 ping-pong balls numbered 1 through 14 are placed in a drum. There are 1,001 possible combinations when four balls are drawn out of 14, without regard to their order of selection. Prior to the Lottery, 1,000 combinations are assigned to the Lottery teams based on their order of finish during the regular season. Four balls are drawn to the top to determine a four-digit combination. The team that has been assigned that combination will receive the number one pick. The four balls are placed back in the drum and the process is repeated to determine the number two and three picks. (Note: If the one unassigned combination is drawn, the balls are drawn to the top again.) In October of 1995, the Board of Governors increased the number of teams participating in the Lottery from 11 to 13 to account for the addition of expansion teams Toronto and Vancouver. Starting in 1996, the team with the worst record in the Lottery continued to have a 25% chance of winning the first pick, teams two through six have slightly fewer chances, team seven has the same number of chances and teams eight through 12 have slightly more chances. The number of chances for team 13 did not change.

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