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Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE/Getty Images Nobody has done better at it than the Cleveland Cavaliers, but even they don't swear by the lottery. It's a weird kind of party, the NBA draft lottery. The 2013 version began on the Good Morning America's re...

Wire Image/Getty Images A newcomer to the NBA twitterverse: Mindy Kaling, who plays Kelly Kapoor on "The Office." At the NBA draft lottery, if you're in the room with the pingpong balls, you're in there. As in, you are not allowed out -- not even b...

Jennifer Pottheiser/NBAE via Getty Images After a miserable season, Irene Pollin was surprised to find her Wizards had won the top pick. A report from the NBA draft lottery at the NBA in Secaucus, New Jersey, where the Washington Wizards followed u...

Tonight is the NBA Draft Lottery. It has pageantry and drama -- but it also has a whole bunch on the line. When that collection of team executives retreats to a secret room at the NBA offices in Secaucus, New Jersey this evening, to watch the lottery...

As a Blazer fan, one of the things that lets me sleep at night is the thought that soon my Blazers might soon have the top overall draft pick. But, of course, there's the matter of the NBA draft lottery with its complicated ping pong balls to get pas...

In 2003, Chad R. Florke and Mark D. Ecker at the Department of Mathematics at University of Northern Iowa set out to do an exhaustive statistical analysis of the NBA draft lottery (requires Acrobat). What they found was: it sucks to be Utah. Utah fa...

The NBA's Board of Governors is meeting in Las Vegas on Thursday, and a source with knowledge of the talks told ESPN.com the agenda includes votes on several rule changes, especially expanding the use of instant replay.

NEW YORK -- Signs are increasingly strong that change is coming to the NBA. At Wednesday's draft lottery, David Stern signaled that he will urge a newly formed competition committee to consider significant rule changes -- for instance, the eliminatio...

The NBA drew straws or something to settle the 7 ties that occured, so per a press release today, this is the NBA draft order, complete with accurater lottery probabilities: The teams entered in the lottery, to be held on May 23, 2006, are as follo...

Look who's in first place for the upcoming NBA lottery. Those Bobcats and Knicks (three game winning streak--pathetic!) have really not been trying hard at all lately. The Blazers are making high draft picks look easy. UPDATE: Per Phil Stanford, (vi...

As big a deal as tonight's NBA lottery is, there is something much more important than what number pick your team has: how smart they pick. There have been plenty of busts high in the draft (Yahoo's Joe Lago has a roundup), and plenty of stars in the...