NEW YORK – Four ties among teams that finished the 2012-13 NBA regular season with identical records were broken today through random drawings to help determine the order of selection for the 2013 NBA Draft, which will be held on Thursday, June 27.

The drawings were conducted earlier today in New York City by Jason Cahilly, NBA Executive Vice President, Strategy and Chief Financial Officer, and Dan Rube, NBA Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel.  The tiebreak process was overseen by Denise Pelli, a partner in the accounting firm of Ernst & Young.

The results of the drawings:

• Detroit (29-53) won a tiebreaker with Washington.
• Philadelphia (34-48) won a tiebreaker with Toronto.
• Houston (45-37) won a tiebreaker with Chicago and the L.A. Lakers; L.A. Lakers then won a tie-breaker with Chicago.
• L.A. Clippers (56-26) won a tiebreaker with Memphis.

Attached is the order of selection for the 2013 NBA Draft, as well as the number of chances for teams in the 2013 NBA Draft Lottery, to be held on Tuesday, May 21.

2013 FIRST ROUND DRAFT CHOICE ORDER

The teams entered in the lottery, to be held on May 21, 2013, are as follows (note: the first three picks in the Draft will be determined by the lottery and the remainder of the “lottery teams” will select in positions 4 through 14 in inverse order of their consolidated standings at the end of the regular season):

TEAM                                                                  RECORD         PCT.    LOTTERY CHANCES (out of 1,000)

Orlando                                                                       20-62          0.244                    250

Charlotte                                                                      21-61         0.256                     199

Cleveland                                                                    24-58         0.293                     156

Phoenix                                                                       25-57         0.305                     119

New Orleans                                                                27-55         0.329                     88

Sacramento                                                                  28-54         0.341                     63

Detroit                                                                         29-53         0.354                     36

Washington                                                                  29-53         0.354                     35

Minnesota                                                                    31-51         0.378                     17

Portland[1]                                                                      33-49         0.402                     11

Philadelphia                                                                 34-48         0.415                     8

Toronto[2]                                                                       34-48         0.415                     7

Dallas                                                                          41-41         0.500                     6

Utah                                                                             43-39         0.524                     5

The order for the remainder of the first round picks is as follows:

15. Milwaukee 38-44         0.463
16. Boston 41-40         0.506
17. Atlanta 44-38         0.537
18. Houston (To Atlanta via Brooklyn) 45-37         0.549
19. LA Lakers (To Cleveland) 45-37         0.549
20. Chicago 45-37         0.549
21. Golden State (To Utah via Brooklyn) 47-35         0.573
22. Brooklyn 49-33         0.598
23. Indiana 49-32         0.605
24. New York 54-28         0.659
25. LA Clippers 56-26         0.683
26. Memphis (To Minnesota via Houston) 56-26         0.683
27. Denver 57-25         0.695
28. San Antonio 58-24         0.707
29. Oklahoma City 60-22         0.732
30. Miami (To Phoenix via LA Lakers & Cleveland) 66-16         0.805

[1] This pick may be conveyed to Charlotte.

[2] This pick may be conveyed to Oklahoma City via Houston.

2013 SECOND ROUND DRAFT CHOICE ORDER

31. Orlando (To Cleveland)
32. Charlotte (To Oklahoma City)
33. Cleveland
34. Phoenix (To Houston)
35. New Orleans (To Philadelphia)
36. Sacramento

37/38.        Washington

37/38.        Detroit

39. Minnesota (To Portland via Boston and Cleveland)
40. Portland

41/42.        Toronto (To Memphis)

41/42.        Philadelphia

43. Milwaukee
44. Dallas[1]
45. Boston (To Portland)
46. Utah
47. Atlanta
48. LA Lakers[2]
49. Chicago
50. Houston (To Atlanta)
51. Golden State (To Orlando via Denver and New York)
52. Brooklyn (To Minnesota)
53. Indiana
54. New York (To Washington)
55. Memphis
56. LA Clippers (To Detroit)
57. Denver (To Phoenix via LA Lakers)
58. San Antonio
59. Oklahoma City (To Minnesota)
60. Miami (To Memphis)

*Please note that teams that finished the regular season with identical records will select in the second round in the reverse of the order in which they select in the first round, provided, that if more than two teams are tied, then, as among the tied teams, each tied team will select one position earlier than it selected in the first round, except that the tied team that selected earliest in the first round shall, among the tied teams, select latest in the second round.  With respect to the ties between Detroit and Washington (29 and 53; 0.354 pct.); and Philadelphia and Toronto (34 and 48; 0.415 pct.):  since the order of selection in the first round for this set of teams may change based on the results of the Draft Lottery, the order of selection in the second round cannot be determined until after the Draft Lottery is conducted (on May 21, 2013).

[1] This pick may be conveyed to LA Lakers.

[2] This pick may be conveyed to Dallas.