The Jazz, Pelicans, Suns, Raptors, Rockets and Knicks won tiebreakers through random drawings to determine the NBA Draft order.
Watch the official 2026 NBA Draft lottery tie breaker.
NEW YORK – Six ties among teams with identical regular-season records were broken today through random drawings to determine the order of selection for NBA Draft 2026.
The drawings were conducted by NBA President of League Operations Byron Spruell at the NBA office in Secaucus, New Jersey. The tiebreaker process was overseen by Megan DeCesaris, a partner from the accounting firm of Ernst & Young.
The results of the drawings:
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NBA Draft Lottery 2026 will be held on Sunday, May 10 and air live on ABC at 3 p.m. ET. The first round of NBA Draft 2026 will take place on Tuesday, June 23, and the second round will take place on Wednesday, June 24.
Below is the order of selection for NBA Draft 2026 and the probability of being awarded the first overall draft pick for teams in NBA Draft Lottery 2026.
The order for the remainder of the first round picks is as follows:
Note: The draft order above assumes that a team with the right to swap one pick for another exercises such right only if it is favorable to do so.
* = This pick may be conveyed to the LA Clippers
^ = This pick may be conveyed to Atlanta (via New Orleans)
Note: Teams that finished the regular season with identical records will select in the second round in inverse order of the order in which they select in the first round. With respect to ties between Lottery teams, since the order of selection in the first round for these sets of teams may change based on the results of the Lottery, the order of selection in the second round cannot be determined until after the Lottery is conducted (on May 10, 2026). Also note, the draft order above assumes that a team with the right to swap one pick for another exercises such right only if it is favorable to do so.
The 2026 NBA Draft order will be determined at the completion of the NBA regular season and the conclusion of the NBA Draft Lottery.
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