Overview
- The drawing airs Sunday at 3 p.m. ET from Chicago’s McCormick Place on ABC and ESPN and will set picks 1 through 14 for the June draft.
- Washington, Indiana and Brooklyn each have a 14% chance at No. 1, with Utah and Sacramento next at 11.5% as teams eye a prized class led by AJ Dybantsa, Darryn Peterson and Cameron Boozer.
- The NBA will draw four ping‑pong balls to set the top four picks from 1,001 number combinations, then place teams 5–14 in reverse order of their records.
- Trade protections could flip ownership of high picks, including Indiana’s selection going to the Clippers if it lands at 5 or 6, the Clippers’ own first going to Oklahoma City, and the Pelicans’ pick conveying to Atlanta or Milwaukee with Hawks–Bucks swap rights in play.
- The league is expected to vote later in May on a reform that would flatten odds and remove the rule that keeps the worst team from falling past No. 5, with changes targeted for 2027.