CHICAGO — Editor's note: the video in the player above is from the Tuesday, May 17, 2022, episode of The Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show.
The 2022 NBA Draft Lottery will take place in Chicago on Tuesday night.
What follows is everything you need to know about the 2022 NBA Draft Lottery, which will determine the order of the first 14 picks of the 2022 NBA Draft.
Event info, how to watch on TV, start time:
Date: Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Time: 8:00 p.m. ET
Location: Chicago, Illinois
TV channel: ESPN
Live Stream: Watch ESPN
How it works
For the fourth consecutive year, the NBA Draft Lottery will be used to select the first four picks of the NBA Draft from a pool of the 14 teams that didn't qualify for the 2022 NBA Playoffs. After the first four picks are selected, the following 10 picks of the draft fall into place based on the order that the remaining teams held prior to the drawing.
Each of the 14 draft lottery teams is assigned odds of landing a top-four pick that correspond to their place in the NBA standings with the teams with worse records possessing a higher chance of climbing in the draft lottery. The three teams that finish with the three worst records in the league each possess the same chances of landing a top-four pick (52.14 percent) as well as the same odds of landing the coveted No. 1 overall pick (14 percent).
2022 NBA Draft Lottery odds
The odds of each team landing the No. 1 pick this year are (odds of landing a top-four pick in parenthesis):
- 1. Houston Rockets - 14% (52.14%)
- 2. Orlando Magic - 14% (52.14%)
- 3. Detroit Pistons - 14% (52.14%)
- 4. Oklahoma City Thunder - 12.5% (48.08%)
- 5. Indiana Pacers - 10.5% (42.12%)
- 6. Portland Trail Blazers - 9% (37.23%)
- 7. Sacramento Kings - 7.5% (31.96%)
- 8. New Orleans Pelicans (via Los Angeles Lakers) - 6% (26.31%)
- The Memphis Grizzlies will get the pick if it falls to No. 11 or 12
- 9. San Antonio Spurs - 4.5% (20.28%)
- 10. Washington Wizards - 3% (13.88%)
- 11. New York Knicks - 2% (13.88%)
- 12. Oklahoma City Thunder (via Los Angeles Clippers) - 1.5% (7.12%)
- 13. Charlotte Hornets - 1% (4.79%)
- 14. Cleveland Cavaliers - 0.5% (2.41%)
Top prospects
According to ESPN, the following players are considered the top 14 prospects in the 2022 NBA Draft:
- 1. Chet Holmgren, PF, Gonzaga
- 2. Jabari Smith, PF, Auburn,
- 3. Paolo Banchero, PF, Duke
- 4. Jaden Ivey, PG, Purdue
- 5. Keegan Murray, PF, Iowa
- 6. Shaedon Sharpe, SG, Kentucky
- 7. A.J. Griffin, SF, Duke
- 8. Jalen Duren, C, Memphis
- 9. Johnny Davis, SG, Wisconsin
- 10. Dyson Daniels, PG, G League Ignite
- 11. Bennedict Mathurin, SF, Arizona
- 12. Ousmane Dieng, SF, NZ Breakers
- 13. Ochai Agbaji, SF, Kansas
- 14. Malaki Branham, SG, Ohio State