Utah Jazz win tiebreaker in lottery order


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SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz won its tiebreaker with the Boston Celtics Friday afternoon, giving the organization the No. 4 spot in the upcoming NBA draft.

At the conclusion of the regular season, the Jazz and Celtics finished with an identical record, meaning a tiebreaker was in order to determine draft seeding. On Friday, the NBA conducted a random drawing, selecting the Jazz as the team to pick in the No. 4 spot at the NBA draft on June 26.

That order, however, will not be finalized until May 20 when the NBA will conduct its NBA Draft Lottery. The Jazz have a 10.4 percent chance of getting the No. 1 pick in the draft, and have more than a 90 percent chance of getting a top 6 pick.

As it currently stands, most NBA draft experts have the No. 4 pick being the Australian 6-foot-6 point guard Dante Exum.

Several other teams in the league were also in a tiebreaker for the draft. Their results are as follows: Brooklyn won a tiebreaker with Washington; Chicago won a tiebreaker with Toronto; Portland won a tiebreaker with Miami and Houston and Houston then won a tiebreaker with Miami.

The following is the projected order of the draft prior to the NBA Draft Lottery:

NBA Draft Order
Round 1Round 2
No.TeamLottery BallsNo.TeamLottery Balls
1Milwaukee25031Milwaukee
2Philadelphia19932Philadelphia
3Orlando15633Orlando (To Cleveland)
**4****Utah****104**34Boston (To Dallas)
5Boston103**35****Utah**
6LA Lakers6336LA Lakers (To Milwaukee via Minnesota & Phoenix)
7Sacramento4337Sacramento (To Toronto)
8Detroit2838Detroit
9Cleveland1739Cleveland (To Philadelphia)
10New Orleans1140New Orleans (To Minnesota)
11Denver841Denver
12New York742New York (To Houston)
13Minnesota643Atlanta
14Phoenix544Minnesota
15Atlanta45Charlotte
16Charlotte (To Chicago)46Washington
17Brooklyn (To Boston)47Brooklyn (To Philadelphia via Dallas & Boston)
18Washington (To Phoenix)48Toronto (To Milwaukee via Phoenix)
19Chicago49Chicago
20Toronto50Phoenix
21Dallas (To OKC via Houston & LA Lakers)51Dallas
22Memphis52Memphis (To Philadelphia via Cleveland)
**23****Golden State (To Utah)**53Golden State (To Minnesota)
24Portland (To Charlotte)54Houston (To Philadelphia via Milwaukee)
25Houston55Miami
26Miami56Portland (To Denver)
27Indiana (To Phoenix)57Indiana
28LA Clippers58LA Clippers (To San Antonio via New Orleans)
29Oklahoma City59Oklahoma City (To Toronto via New York)
30San Antonio60San Antonio

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