Lottery Odds Also Decided Last Week of Season at LinesMaker

Lottery Odds Also Decided Last Week of Season

NBA (Helin) – We keep talk­ing about the teams talk­ing play­offs – who gets home court, Boston or Atlanta, or can Phoenix catch Utah and get the last spot in the West – but there is a tight race among teams who have long for­got­ten about the playoffs.

A lot of lot­tery odds are still to be decided this week as teams are bunched up near the bot­tom. A lot of team’s chances of land­ing Anthony Davis or tak­ing a risk on Andre Drum­mond ride on this week.

Make no mis­take, the Bob­cats will clear and away have the best lot­tery odds. Thanks to their his­tor­i­cally bad 7–56 record, they will have a 25 per­cent chance at the top spot and Davis. Wash­ing­ton (17–46) will fin­ish sec­ond worst and have a 19.9 per­cent chance of win­ning the lot­tery. The matchup of Wash­ing­ton and Char­lotte will have no mean­ing on this, it will just be hard for the rest of us to watch.

But after that it gets interesting.

New Orleans is third worst as I write this at 20–44 but then comes Sacra­mento (21–43), Cleve­land (21–42), New Jer­sey (22–42) and Toronto (22–42) all within two games of each other. The War­riors are 23–41 and just one game back of the Nets and Rap­tors. They have a handy chart of all this at the Plain Dealer.

It mat­ters if you are in tank mode – as it stands right now the Hor­nets would have a 15.6 per­cent chance of win­ning the top pick, the Rap­tors 4.3 per­cent. The odds drop off pretty steeply, and teams like some of the guys at the top of this draft a lot. Here is how the Plain Dealer describes it with the focus on Cleve­land (for obvi­ous reasons).

Los­ing out could move Cleve­land ahead of Sacra­mento and New Orleans and into the third slot. That would give the Cavs a 15.6 per­cent chance of pick­ing No. 1 and a 46.9 per­cent chance of pick­ing some­where in the top three.

Win­ning out could drop the Cavs below New Jer­sey, Toronto and Golden State and into a tie for eighth with Detroit. Los­ing the tiebreaker would put Cleve­land ninth, with only a 1.7 per­cent chance of draft­ing No. 1 and just a 6.1 per­cent chance of pick­ing some­where in the top three.

There’s going to be some shift­ing at the bot­tom of the stand­ings this week, too, and it may be as inter­est­ing to watch as at the top. Well, almost.

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