Overview
- The NBA, which held random-drawing tiebreakers Monday in Secaucus, set the pre‑lottery draft order for teams with identical records.
- Utah beat Sacramento in the key drawing, locking the Jazz into a worst‑case No. 8 slot and ensuring their top‑8‑protected 2026 first-round pick does not convey to Oklahoma City.
- Updated odds list Washington, Indiana, and Brooklyn at 14.0% for the No. 1 pick, with Utah and Sacramento at 11.5% and Memphis at 9.0%.
- Other winners were New Orleans over Dallas, Phoenix over Philadelphia and Orlando, Toronto over Atlanta, Houston over Cleveland, and New York over the Lakers, with several of those picks already owed to other teams via prior trades.
- The process was run by NBA operations chief Byron Spruell with Ernst & Young oversight, and the next steps are the May 10 lottery in Chicago followed by the June 23–24 draft in Brooklyn.