{"id":715052,"date":"2026-04-21T09:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/715052\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:18:18","slug":"utah-jazz-win-tiebreaker-vs-kings-to-avoid-sending-first-round-pick-to-oklahoma-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/715052\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz win tiebreaker vs. Kings to avoid sending first-round pick to Oklahoma City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) \u2014 The Utah Jazz won a tiebreaker against the Sacramento Kings, avoiding the possibility of sending a first-round pick to the Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NBA\u2019s announcement, Utah (22-60) won the tiebreaker over Sacramento to secure the fourth-best odds in next month\u2019s lottery drawing.<\/p>\n<p>The Jazz now have an 11.5% chance of landing the No. 1 overall pick. The Brooklyn Nets, Indiana Pacers and Washington Wizards are tied for the best odds at 14%.<\/p>\n<p>MORE | Utah Jazz<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 lottery will determine the first four selections, with the remaining picks ordered by regular-season record.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA draft lottery is scheduled for May 10. The first round of the NBA draft will be held June 23.<\/p>\n<p>_________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) \u2014 The Utah Jazz won a tiebreaker against the Sacramento Kings, avoiding the possibility&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,423,6,422,427,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-715052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jazz","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-utah","12":"tag-utah-jazz","13":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116441952606600305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}