{"id":730811,"date":"2026-05-10T17:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/730811\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T17:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T17:18:19","slug":"2026-nba-draft-lottery-and-results-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/730811\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NBA Draft Lottery and Results Discussion!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">No team\u2019s future, immediately and in the long term, could be impacted more Sunday than the LA Clippers\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">They won\u2019t have anyone in the lottery drawing room or on stage, but they could be huge winners &#8212; or significant losers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s why: In a trade deadline deal for center Ivica Zubac in February, the Pacers sent the Clippers their 2026 first-round pick if it falls within Nos. 5 and 9. This is a coin flip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The Pacers have a 52% chance of getting a pick in the top four and a 48% chance of the pick falling to spots 5 or 6, thus sending it to LA. It\u2019s a gigantic sliding-doors moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">For the Clippers, it\u2019s a chance to land a potential franchise-changing prospect and kick-start a retrofit they began last winter when they traded Zubac and James Harden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">If they don\u2019t get the pick, they will be forced to wait. As part of the Zubac trade, they\u2019d then get the Pacers\u2019 first-round pick in 2031.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No team\u2019s future, immediately and in the long term, could be impacted more Sunday than the LA Clippers\u2019.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[53132,7,559,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,6],"class_list":["post-730811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-clippers","tag-around-the-nba","tag-basketball","tag-clippers","tag-la","tag-la-clippers","tag-laclippers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesclippers","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116551424589378445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730811","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=730811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}