no<\/em> idea when the draft lottery will be held. That said, it\u2019s beginning to seem increasingly unlikely that we\u2019ll see any significant portion of the remaining regular season played out, and for that reason it may be wise to accept the current lottery order when doing your own draft analysis.
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In the NBA, the bottom 14 teams comprise the lottery, and don\u2019t necessarily make selections in order of worst to best record. For now though, that\u2019s the only appropriate way to think of the draft order. Strictly speaking, order by record (with the worst team picking first) is the most mathematically likely result of the weighted lottery drawing. So for the time being, accepting the standings as they are will give you the most accurate order in which to consider picks.
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This is uncharted territory for the NBA, and by extension for the draft. In a way though, focusing on this aspect of the offseason can be comforting. Right now, just about the only thing we know for sure is that one way or another, the 2020 draft will be held (even if it\u2019s not a live event, as it normally would be). Hopefully the tips above can help you get a jump on preparing for it.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the NBA having suspended its season in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, professional basketball in the United States is in a state of flux. We don\u2019t know for certain if the 2019-20 season will resume, or if we\u2019ll have a postseason at any point. For that matter, we don\u2019t know when the 2020-21 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2231,"featured_media":74369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[91,507],"class_list":["post-74359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-college-basketball","tag-nba","tag-college-basketball"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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