Ties broken for order of selection in NBA Draft 2018 presented by State Farm

NEW YORK – Five ties among teams that finished the 2017-18 NBA regular season with identical records were broken today through random drawings to determine the order of selection for NBA Draft 2018 presented by State Farm.

The drawings were conducted by NBA Executive Vice President, Basketball Operations Kiki VanDeWeghe at the St. Regis Hotel in New York and broadcast live on NBA TV.  The tiebreaker process was overseen by Darrington Hobson, a representative from the accounting firm of Ernst & Young.

The results of the drawings:

  • Dallas (24-58) won a tiebreaker with Atlanta.
  • Chicago (27-55) won a tiebreaker with Sacramento.
  • Miami (44-38) won a tiebreaker with Milwaukee.
  • San Antonio (47-35) won a tiebreaker with Minnesota.
  • Oklahoma City (48-34) won a tiebreaker with Indiana, New Orleans and Utah. Second, third and fourth place in the tiebreaker drawings went to Utah, New Orleans and Indiana, respectively.

 NBA Draft Lottery 2018 presented by State Farm will be held on Tuesday, May 15 in Chicago.  NBA Draft 2018 presented by State Farm will take place on Thursday, June 21 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Below is the order of selection for NBA Draft 2018 presented by State Farm and the number of chances for teams in NBA Draft Lottery 2018 presented by State Farm.