Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry Lime
So the first 7 spots in the draft are selected on June 26th, and the other 8 are selected inbetween the first and second rounds. No one sees a problem with this?
If they run the draft lottery, and a playoff team wins one of the top three seeds, then a team still in the playoffs will know that they will get that lottery position if they lose the series. Or if they win, the opposing team gets the spot.
This adds an unnecessary wrinkle to the season. I'm guessing that they change that so that the entire lottery side of the draft takes place inbetween the first and second rounds, or better yet, just after the playoffs. This is stupid.
|
No. As I understood it, they'll do the normal lottery as usual on June 26, assigning the top-3 draft picks to the winners. The lottery odds will be the same as they would have been if the season had played out as normal, the only difference is that the 8-15 spots in the lottery will not be assigned to any specific team.
If the 3 spots are all won by teams in the 1-7 spots, that will be the end of it and the 8-15 draft spots will be filled by the 8 teams who lose the play-in round using their regular season points percentage for ranking.
If one or more of the top 3 spots are won by one of the unassigned 8-15 spots, there will be an additional lottery held after the completion of the play-in round. Each of the play-in losers will have equal odds in this lottery to determine who will get that unassigned top-3 pick.
Even if one of the 8-15 spots wins one or more of the lotteries, none of the teams will know who will get that spot.