On May 13, Beijing time, the 2024 NBA draft lottery draw ceremony ended. The Hawk won the No. 1 spot with a 3% probability, the Wizards won the No. 1 spot, and the Rockets won the exploratory spot. The official media of Hawk released photos to celebrate, and wrote: "3% is enough." Pistons were unlucky. They ranked the bottom for two consecutive years, and only drew the No. 5 draw for two consecutive years.
The teams that won the first round of the 4th to 14th pick in this year's draft conference are: 4 Spurs, 5 Piston, 6 Wasp, 7 Pioneers, 8 Raptors (sent to Spurs), 9 Grizzlies, 10 Jazz, 11 Bull, 12 Rocket (sent to Thunder), 13 King, 14 Warriors (sent to pioneers).
Note: The Rockets' first round draw has reached the 12th place and failed to reach the top four. This draw will belong to Thunder. The first round draw of Raptors has reached the 8th place, but it failed to reach the top six. This draw will belong to the Spurs. The first round draw of the Jazz was ranked 10th, just entering the top ten. This draw will remain in the Jazz, not be given to Thunder. The Warriors' first round draw was ranked 14th, but failed to reach the top four. This draw will belong to the pioneers.
Normally, 14 teams will participate in the lottery, but since the Nets' lottery this season was signed by the Rockets, the Nets need not send representatives to participate.
Before the lottery, the probability of each team winning the first prize is as follows: Pistons and Wizards each have 14%, Hornets 13.3%, Trailblazers 13.2%, Spurs 10.5%, Raptors 9%, Grizzlies 7.5%, Jazz 6%, Rockets 6% (Nets 4.5%, own 1.5%), Hawks 3%, Bulls 2%, Kings 0.8%, Warriors 0.7%.
The representatives of the 13 lottery teams are as follows: the Hawks are Landry Fields (the team president), the Hornets are Brandon Miller (the player), the Bulls are Julian Phillips (the player), the Pistons are Osar Thompson (the player), the Warriors are Bojamsky (the player), and the Rockets are Udoka (the coach), Grizzlies is Teshain Prince (special assistant to the general manager), Blazers is Scott Henderson (player), Kings is Keegan Murray (player), Spurs is Brian Wright (team president), Raptors is Scotty Barnes (player), Jazz is Ser Bailey (team star and commentator), Wizards is Bilal Coulibally (player).
This year is generally considered to be the year of draft. On the current draft odds list, 19 year old French center Alex Sal is the number one favorite of the champion. He is 2.16 meters tall and weighs 96 kilograms. The draft template is Mitchell Robinson.
The teams that have won the first prize in the past 10 years are as follows: the Spurs in 2023, the Magic in 2022, the Pistons in 2021, the Timberwolves in 2020, the Pelican in 2019, the Sun in 2018, the Celtics in 2017, the 76 in 2016, the Timberwolves in 2015, and the Cavaliers in 2014.
Statistics show that since the lottery began in 1985, the team with the lowest probability of winning the first prize is Magic in 1993. At that time, they drew the first prize draw with a probability of 1.52%, and selected Chris Webb at the draft conference later.
It is worth mentioning that this year's draft conference will be divided into two rounds. The first round of the show will be held on June 27, Beijing time, and the second round will be held on June 28.
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