NEW YORK – Ties among teams that finished the 2015-16 NBA regular season with identical records were broken today through random drawings to help determine the order of selection for NBA Draft 2016 presented by State Farm, which will be held on Thursday, June 23.

The drawings were conducted earlier today in New York City by Kiki VanDeWeghe, Executive Vice President, Basketball Operations.  The tiebreak process was overseen by Denise Pelli, a representative from the accounting firm of Ernst & Young.

The results of the drawings:

• Sacramento (33-49) won a tiebreaker with Denver and Milwaukee; Denver then won a tiebreaker with Milwaukee.
• Dallas (42-40) won a tiebreaker with Memphis.
• Detroit (44-38) won a tiebreaker with Portland.
• Atlanta (48-34) won a tiebreaker with Boston, Charlotte and Miami; Charlotte then won a tiebreaker with Boston and Miami; Boston then won a tiebreaker with Miami.Attached is the order of selection for the 2016 NBA Draft presented by State Farm, as well as the number of chances for teams in the 2016 NBA Draft Lottery, to be held on Tuesday, May 17.
  

  2016 FIRST ROUND DRAFT CHOICE ORDER

  The teams entered in the lottery 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	Win %	Lottery Chances (out of 1,000)
  Philadelphia[1]	10-72	0.122	250
  LA Lakers[2]	17-65	0.207	199
  Brooklyn (To Boston)	21-61	0.256	156
  Phoenix	23-59	0.280	119
  Minnesota	29-53	0.354	88
  New Orleans	30-52	0.366	63
  New York (To Denver or Toronto)	32-50	0.390	43
  Sacramento[3]	33-49	0.402	19
  Denver[4]	33-49	0.402	19
  Milwaukee	33-49	0.402	18
  Orlando	35-47	0.427	8
  Utah	40-42	0.488	7
  Washington[5]	41-41	0.500	6
  Chicago	42-40	0.512	5

   

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

   

  15.	Houston (To Denver)	41-41	0.500
  16.	Dallas (To Boston)	42-40	0.512
  17.	Memphis	42-40	0.512
  18.	Detroit	44-38	0.537
  19.	Portland (To Denver)	44-38	0.537
  20.	Indiana	45-37	0.549
  21.	Atlanta	48-34	0.585
  22.	Charlotte	48-34	0.585
  23.	Boston	48-34	0.585
  24.	Miami (To Philadelphia via Cleveland)	48-34	0.585
  25.	LA Clippers	53-29	0.646
  26.	Oklahoma City (To Philadelphia via Denver and Cleveland)	55-27	0.671
  27.	Toronto	56-26	0.683
  28.	Cleveland (To Phoenix via Boston)	57-25	0.695
  29.	San Antonio	67-15	0.817
  30.	Golden State	73-9	0.890

  2016 SECOND ROUND DRAFT CHOICE ORDER

  31.	Philadelphia (To Boston via Miami)
  32.	LA Lakers
  33.	Brooklyn  (To LA Clippers)
  34.	Phoenix
  35.	Minnesota (To Boston via Phoenix)
  36.	New Orleans (To Milwaukee via Sacramento)
  37.	New York (To Houston via Sacramento and Portland)
  38/39/40.	Milwaukee
  38/39/40.	Denver (To New Orleans via Philadelphia)
  38/39/40.	Sacramento (To New Orleans)
  41.	Orlando
  42.	Utah
  43.	Houston
  44.	Washington (To Atlanta)
  45.	Memphis  (To Boston)
  46.	Dallas
  47.	Chicago (To Orlando)
  48.	Portland (To Chicago via Cleveland)
  49.	Detroit
  50.	Indiana
  51.	Miami (To Boston)
  52.	Boston (To Utah via Memphis)
  53.	Charlotte (To Denver via Oklahoma City)
  54.	Atlanta
  55.	LA Clippers (To Brooklyn)
  56.	Oklahoma City (To Denver)
  57.	Toronto (To Memphis)
  58.	Cleveland (To Boston)
  59.	San Antonio (To Sacramento)
  60.	Golden State (To Utah)

   

  *Please note that teams that finished the regular season with identical records will select in the second round in inverse order of the order in which they select in the first round.  With respect to the tie between the Denver Nuggets, Milwaukee Bucks and Sacramento Kings (33 and 49; 0.402 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 17, 2016).

[1] This pick may be conveyed to Sacramento.

[2] This pick may be conveyed to Philadelphia via Phoenix.

[3] This pick may be conveyed to (i) Chicago via Cleveland, or (ii) Philadelphia.

[4] This pick may be conveyed to Toronto via New York.

[5] This pick may be conveyed to Phoenix.