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Follow the bouncing ball Breaking down the NBA's draft lotteryPosted: Monday May 13, 2002 9:30 PM(CNNSI.com) -- The 18th annual edition of the NBA Draft lottery, which will determine the order of selection for the first 13 picks of the 2002 NBA Draft, will be broadcast live at halftime of an NBA playoff game, May 19 at 5:30 p.m. ET. Fourteen Ping-Pong balls numbered 1 through 14 will be placed in a drum. There are 1,001 possible combinations when four balls are drawn out of 14, without regard to their order of selection. Prior to the lottery, 1,000 combinations will be assigned to the 13 lottery teams by a computer. The remaining combination is unassigned. The Golden State Warriors and Chicago Bulls, who finished the 2001-02 season tied for the NBA’s worst record (21-61), will each be assigned 225 combinations. The Memphis Grizzlies, which had the second-worst record in the league at 23-59, will be assigned 157 combinations. Four balls will be drawn to determine a four-digit combination. The team that has been assigned that combination will receive the No. 1 pick. The four balls are placed back in the drum and the process is repeated to determine the No. 2 and No. 3 picks. (Note: If the one unassigned combination is drawn, the balls are placed back in the drum and the process is repeated until an assigned combination is drawn.) The order of selection for the teams that don't win one of the top three picks will be determined by inverse order of their regular-season record. Thus, Golden State can pick no lower than fourth and Chicago no lower than fifth, etc. The actual Lottery procedure will take place in a separate room prior to halftime with NBA officials and representatives of the participating teams and the accounting firm of Ernst & Young in attendance. Following the drawing, team logo cards will be inserted into envelopes marked 1 through 3 by an Ernst & Young representative. These envelopes then will be sealed and brought onstage, where the announcement of the lottery results will be made. A second representative from each participating team will be seated onstage. Neither NBA Deputy Commissioner Russ Granik nor the team representatives onstage will be informed of the order prior to announcement of the results. The order of selections 4 through 13 will be announced in inverse order just prior to the broadcast. The order for the first three picks in the 2002 NBA Draft will be revealed when deputy commissioner Russ Granik opens the three envelopes in inverse order on the air. The team whose logo is in the last envelope opened will pick first in draft, to be held on Wednesday, June 26, at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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