2024 NBA Draft Lottery: Where the Kings stand & when to watch

May 10, 2024, 12:30 PM

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The NBA Draft Lottery has been an exciting day for the Sacramento Kings in recent memory.

In 2018, the Kings jumped from seventh to second in the Lottery (let’s not talk about what happened after). Just two years ago, Sacramento leaped from seventh to fourth, where they selected talented forward Keegan Murray.

Things will look a little different in 2024, as the Kings will enter Sunday’s Draft Lottery with the 13th-best odds of securing the number-one pick–something that no team has done in Sacramento’s position in Lottery history.

Here’s everything that you need to know about the 2024 NBA Draft Lottery:

The 2024 NBA Draft Lottery presented by State Farm will be held Sunday afternoon in Chicago and air live at 3:00 PM ET on ABC.

Below are the 2024 lottery probabilities for each of the teams ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/DBGxx0YHaU

— NBA Communications (@NBAPR) May 10, 2024

When is the 2024 NBA Draft Lottery?

The 2024 NBA Draft Lottery will be held in Chicago, Illinois, on Sunday, May 12 (12 p.m. PT on ABC).

Which teams will participate in the 2024 NBA Draft Lottery?

The 14 teams that missed out on the NBA playoffs are eligible for the Draft Lottery. The final odds were determined after the regular season, and tie breaks were settled between teams with identical regular season records.

What is the format?

Per NBA.com

The NBA Board of Governors approved changes to the lottery system on Sept. 28, 2017. Under the revamped format (which began with the 2019 Draft), the NBA Draft Lottery will ensure that the team with the worst record will receive no worse than the fifth pick. Under the pre-2019 system, the team with the worst record would pick no lower than fourth.

The new system will level the odds at the top of the NBA Draft Lottery so that the teams with the three worst regular-season records will each have a 14 percent chance of winning the lottery. In the pre-2019 structure, the top seed had a 25 percent of winning the lottery, the second seed had a 19.9 percent and the third seed had a 15.6 percent.

After drawings are conducted for the first four picks of the NBA Draft, the other lottery teams will continue to pick in inverse order of their regular-season record.

Where do the Kings stand?

NBA Pre-Lottery Draft order (% likelihood of winning lottery)

Detroit Pistons (14.0%)
Washington Wizards (14.0%)
Charlotte Hornets (13.3%)
Portland Trail Blazers (13.2%)
San Antonio Spurs (10.5%)
Toronto Raptors (9.0%)
- Note: The Spurs will receive this pick if it falls out of the top six (54.2%).
Memphis Grizzlies (7.5%)
Utah Jazz (6.0%)
- Note: The Thunder will receive this pick if it falls out of the top 10 (0.5%).
Houston Rockets (from Nets) (4.5%)
Atlanta Hawks (3.0%)
Chicago Bulls (2.0%)
Oklahoma City Thunder (from Rockets) (1.5%)
- Note: The Rockets will retain this pick if it moves into the top four (7.2%).
Sacramento Kings (0.8%)
Portland Trail Blazers (from Warriors) (0.7%)
- Note: The Warriors will retain this pick if it moves into the top four (3.4%).

When is the next Sacramento Kings off-season date of interest?

For the first time in two years, the Sacramento Kings will be crossing its fingers for luck during the upcoming NBA Draft Lottery.

The 2024 NBA Draft Lottery will be held on Sunday, May 12, 2024, in Chicago, where Sacramento will have the 13th-best odds of securing the top pick.

How the Lottery works: The 14 teams that missed out on the NBA playoffs are eligible for the Draft Lottery. The final odds were determined after the regular season, and tie breaks were settled between teams with identical regular season records.

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