1, lottery
Every season after the regular season, the NBA will draw lots for lotto, and 14 teams that fail to make the playoffs will participate. The specific rules of the lottery system are as follows: 14 balls are marked with the numbers 1~ 14 respectively, and put into rolling vessels. Throw four digital balls at random, regardless of the lottery order, there will be 100 1 different situations [calculation14 *13 *12 *1/(4
Before the lucky draw,1001(except11,12, 13, 14) may be allocated to teams in the lucky draw area. According to the record, they will get a corresponding number of combinations. Which team draws the first combination, then the top pick belongs to this team. (The number one sign may get all the combinations of the team, and the number two sign will be invalid after it is drawn. If an invalid combination is drawn, the ball will be put back into the container to draw again, and so on until the drawn combination belongs to the team to draw. ) When the top three drafts are decided, the whole lottery process is over.
According to the regulations, the whole lottery process will be attended by NBA officials, 14 team representatives and accountants who supervise the lottery. After the "lucky draw", the accountant will put the cards with the team logo in three envelopes marked 1 to 3, and then seal them. Neither granick, vice president of NBA, nor the team representative can know in advance what the result is in the envelope.
Subsequently, the NBA will officially announce the lottery results. The draft picks from 4th to 13 are announced in descending order, and then the top three teams are announced in turn by opening the envelope. The team indicated in the last opened envelope will win the first prize in the draft one month later.
2. Draft meeting
After the finals, the NBA will hold a draft meeting, and representatives of 30 teams, NBA officials and candidates will all be present. * * * There will be two rounds of draft. The order of the first round of draft is: the top draft, the second draft, the flower-exploring draft and the team whose record is from bad to good in the regular season. The order of the second round draft is arranged in reverse order according to the regular season record.
The top draft team is selected from all the players participating in the draft. The players selected by this team are the "top leaders". They are usually the best of all players or the most needed by the team. Then the "second place" team will choose among the remaining players. It can be seen that there will be fewer players to choose from in the future, and there will usually be fewer excellent players.
3. Team selection
When a player is selected in the first draft, the team that selected him must sign with him for at least four years (3+ 1 or 2+2), while the team that selected the player in the second round can "own" the player for three years, but the team does not have to sign with them.
If a player signs a contract with his agent, he will automatically end his college studies. If the rookie is abandoned, he will become a free agent (unrestricted). After the team signed a contract with the rookie, they could not trade him for 60 days.
The significance of pecking order
The first player selected in the draft is usually called the "top pick" (the first draft pick), and they are usually the best among all the players participating in the draft. The second player selected is called "No.2" and the third player is called "Flower Exploration". Then it is called the first order in turn.
Just because a player is selected in the first round doesn't mean that he will become a superstar in the future. Michael Jordan was selected as the third overall pick in the first round of 1984 draft, but he is generally regarded as the greatest player in NBA history.
Among the two players selected before Jordan, one is "Dream" Olajuwon and the other is sam bowie. Olajuwon was finally elected to the NBA Hall of Fame, but Sam Bowie ended his career with no achievements due to injury. This shows that the NBA draft ranking is not necessarily directly related to the future development of players, and the players with lower draft ranking are not necessarily worse than the players with higher draft ranking.