Nichols Lakers have a 4.7% chance of ending up in the top 4 draft lottery. If they just lose 3.5 games, that would give them a 32% chance of getting in the top 4. So going from 4.7% to 32%, which would get you a top 4 pick for yourself or another trade pi

ALLCITY Marc Stein We know the Bucks really want an additional lottery pick If they do the deal w Miami theyll have 13 BOS only has 27 When you talk to people around the league the Bucks have been operating as though theyre going to have at least 2 lottery picks this draft

Windhorst The LA Clippers have quietly been visiting draft prospects expected to be taken in the late lottery range in the last few days This could signal a trade of Leonard to Miami No 13 or Golden State No 11 and LA trading No 5 to Milwaukee for Jaylen Brown

Vecenie during his live draft show The Knicks did trade 24 for 25 straight up The Lakers just move up one spot for free Charania said the Knicks are trying to trade 25 as well So I think they probably ran out of time and said to the Lakers 'Do you guys want to go We'll let you move up'

Pelinka What did those teams Detroit San Antonio and OKC have to go through to build through the draft Multiple seasons of losses and that is just not part of our infrastructure here As much as some of us might want it to be that way its not the Lakers way

Bill Simmons I heard this too during the weekend Could the Clippers with the 5th pick move in to the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade and be the 3rd team And then the second piece of this Would they then send Kawhi to Miami as a consolation prize for additional assets

Presti on lottery reform Good short term solve but hopes NBA will eventually move away from a luck based solution Hopefully we can get to a point where we have a system that isn't tied to record entirely Said he prefers a complex predictable system to a simple unpredictable one