The NBA draft was held in Madison Garden, home of the new york Knicks. Many procedures and rules of NBA draft can be roughly divided into two parts every year. The first part is the draft lottery: the NBA began to implement the draft lottery from 1985. Every year when the playoffs are in full swing, the NBA will convene teams that fail to enter the playoffs to hold a lottery ceremony to determine the ownership of the top three draft picks in the future. In the lucky draw ceremony, the host will take out 1- 14 ping-pong balls and put them into the container. Four balls are randomly selected from 14 balls, regardless of numerical order. A * * can produce 100 1 possible combinations. Before the draw, the teams that didn't qualify for the playoffs had been ranked in reverse order according to the regular season record, and the corresponding combination number (probability) of winning the first prize was obtained. For example, 14 teams failed to make the playoffs this year. In this 14 team, the eagle with the worst record got 250 combinations, that is, there was a 25% chance to win the first place, and the wasp with the second worst record got 199, that is, 19.9% chance, and so on,/kloc-0.9%. After the draw for No.1 draft, four table tennis balls were put back into the container, and the ownership of No.2 and No.3 draft picks was decided again. After that, the remaining No.4-30 draft picks in the first and second rounds were decided in reverse order according to the results of the regular season.
After selecting a rookie, the team can choose to sign with him, or give up, or exchange directly. If the rookie is abandoned, he will become a free agent (unrestricted). If it's a deal, the rookie who didn't get the contract will be paid zero as the draft pick. After the team signed a contract with the rookie, they could not trade him for 60 days. If the rookie doesn't want to sign with the team that selected him, the team doesn't agree to trade or give him up, the rookie can't sign with other NBA teams within one year, and the team that selected him reserves the right to sign for one year; Rookie can also participate in next year's draft. The ranking of NBA players is based on scouts' long-term observation, and they decide a player who is most suitable for the team's weaknesses (for example, the position and position control of the Rockets' power forward were their weaknesses last season, so they chose Brooks and Landry as point guards and signed Scola, a player once selected by the Spurs). Scouts will submit reports to the general manager and choose players who are more in line with their rankings and needs. In the draft meeting, as long as the player favored by his team is not picked by the previous draft team, then the team can pick him. In short, the order of players is determined by the team. (For example, in this year's draft, if the Sonics get the No.1 pick, then Durant will be the No.1 pick this year, not Oden).