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TIES BROKEN FOR ORDER OF SELECTION IN NBA DRAFT 2026



TIES BROKEN FOR ORDER OF SELECTION IN NBA DRAFT 2026

Six ties among teams with identical regular-season records were broken today through random drawings to determine the order of selection for NBA Draft 2026.

The results of the drawings:

▪️ The Utah Jazz (22-60) won a tiebreaker with the Sacramento Kings.
▪️ The New Orleans Pelicans (26-56) won a tiebreaker with the Dallas Mavericks.
▪️ The Phoenix Suns (45-37) won a tiebreaker with the Orlando Magic and the Philadelphia 76ers. Second and third place in the tiebreaker drawings went to Philadelphia and Orlando, respectively.
▪️ The Toronto Raptors (46-36) won a tiebreaker with the Atlanta Hawks.
▪️ The Houston Rockets (52-30) won a tiebreaker with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
▪️ The New York Knicks (53-29) won a tiebreaker with the Los Angeles Lakers.

NBA Draft Lottery 2026 will be held on Sunday, May 10 and air live on ABC at 3:00pm/et.
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42 Comments

  1. In all of these tie-breakers, the team whose ball was put into the machine first has not won any of them.

  2. Gang notice that every team that got there ball put in last won the tie breaker. Mr.Silver I see what your doing😂

  3. So they show the full process for tiebreakers but not draft lottery? Make it make sense.

  4. they should this transparent with the actual draft lottery order but that is done in private for some reason!!

  5. carrying ping pong balls in briefcases is ridiculous. these people take themselves too serious just to end up rigging the game anyways.

  6. This format going forward should be the actual draft lottery, out in the open, not hidden behind curtains, simple otherwise people will just feel it’s rigged.

  7. The fact that when showing the balls they are off camera, but when he shows the tie breaker winner he knows exactly where to place it so it shows very clearly makes it look kinda suspicious or could raise questions.

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