{"id":309656,"date":"2026-05-11T01:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/309656\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T01:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:10:16","slug":"washington-wins-nba-draft-lottery-clippers-land-fifth-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/309656\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington wins NBA draft lottery, Clippers land fifth pick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The league\u2019s worst team this season is getting the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft.<\/p>\n

The Washington Wizards won the draft lottery on Sunday and are poised to pick first overall for the first time since choosing John Wall in that spot in 2010. Wall was the Wizards\u2019 on-stage representative for the lottery.<\/p>\n

Washington had a 14% chance of winning No. 1, tied with Brooklyn and Indiana for the best odds. The Wizards had basically a 50-50 chance of getting either a top-four pick or the No. 5 spot.<\/p>\n

But three consecutive years of losing \u2014 the three worst seasons in the franchise\u2019s 65-year history \u2014 finally paid off Sunday for the Wizards, who went 17-65 this season and even allowed Miami\u2019s Bam Adebayo to score 83 points for the league\u2019s second-highest single-game total ever.<\/p>\n

The Wizards swung deals to land Trae Young and Anthony Davis<\/a> last season, and now they have a chance to add an immediate impact player with the No. 1 pick.<\/p>\n

Utah will pick No. 2, Memphis will pick No. 3 and Chicago will pick No. 4.<\/p>\n

The Clippers<\/a> got the fifth pick \u2014 via a trade with the Pacers \u2014 followed by No. 6 Brooklyn, No. 7 Sacramento, No. 8 Atlanta, No. 9 Dallas, No. 10 Milwaukee, No. 11 Golden State, No. 12 Oklahoma City, No. 13 Miami and No. 14 Charlotte.<\/p>\n

The draft begins June 23 in New York. The draft combine in Chicago starts on Monday.<\/p>\n

No. 1 pick possibilities<\/p>\n

There are four candidates that generally are considered front-runners to be the No. 1 pick, all of them entering the draft after their freshman years of college. They are:<\/p>\n

\u2014 BYU\u2019s AJ Dybantsa, who led the nation in scoring at 25.5 points per game in his lone college season.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Duke\u2019s Cameron Boozer, the AP player of the year who averaged 22.5 points and 10.1 rebounds.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kansas\u2019 Darryn Peterson, who averaged 20.2 points in 24 games for the Jayhawks.<\/p>\n

\u2014 North Carolina\u2019s Caleb Wilson, who averaged 19.8 points and 9.4 rebounds on 58% shooting.<\/p>\n

All four of those players, and a few other likely first-round selections, were all among those in the studio for the announcement of the lottery results Sunday at Chicago\u2019s Navy Pier.<\/p>\n

\u201cStanding here is kind of crazy,\u201d Dybantsa said. \u201cOne of these teams is going to be home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last of this format (probably)<\/p>\n

This was the eighth, and likely final, year of this version of an NBA draft lottery, with the worst teams having a 14% chance of winning.<\/p>\n

Framework fell into place last month on changes meant to further discourage tanking, and the league\u2019s Board of Governors is expected to ratify that plan in the next few weeks \u2014 with general managers meeting in Chicago on Tuesday to discuss them presumably for one last time.<\/p>\n

The three worst teams, starting next season, would have a 5.4% chance of winning \u2014 with the next seven teams all having an 8.1% chance of winning. The lottery would grow from 14 to 16 teams if the plan, as expected, is approved.<\/p>\n

Reynolds writes for the Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The league\u2019s worst team this season is getting the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft. The Washington…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[116044,320,4419,6665,77762,129996,48,52,51,10572,47,50,49,94400,18158,1417,7556,278,776,558,43156],"class_list":["post-309656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bad-team","tag-chance","tag-chicago","tag-clippers","tag-consecutive-year","tag-fifth-pick","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-league","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-nba-draft-lottery","tag-no","tag-point","tag-rebound","tag-season","tag-sunday","tag-washington","tag-wizards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}