{"id":731389,"date":"2026-05-11T09:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/731389\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:06:25","slug":"what-pick-did-the-dallas-mavericks-get-in-the-2026-nba-draft-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/731389\/","title":{"rendered":"What pick did the Dallas Mavericks get in the 2026 NBA Draft Lottery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Fort Worth Star-Telegram;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Fort Worth Star-Telegram\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"272\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2021-02\/a00d18d0-6a21-11eb-bff5-9950f532eca7.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Sun, May 10, 2026 at 7:23 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"651\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_fort_worth_star_telegram_mcclatchy_844\/af665ad823abb3c4755f47ab1614ca.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Mavericks got the No. 9 pick in the upcoming NBA draft.<\/p>\n<p> (Stacy Revere\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-ylk=\"slk:Dallas Mavericks had one of the most improbable NBA Draft Lotteries;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tankathon.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Mavericks had one of the most improbable NBA Draft Lotteries<\/a> last year when they won the<a data-ylk=\"slk:No. 1 pick despite only having a 1.8%25 chance to do so;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/sports\/nba\/dallas-mavericks\/article306226061.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> No. 1 pick despite only having a 1.8% chance to do so<\/a>. With the eighth-best odds for the top pick this season how did they make out?<\/p>\n<p>The Mavs earned the No. 9 selection in the draft. Entering the lottery they had a 29% chance to move into the top four, and will look to give <a data-ylk=\"slk:reining NBA Rookie of the Year Cooper Flagg;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/sports\/nba\/dallas-mavericks\/article315573053.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reining NBA Rookie of the Year Cooper Flagg<\/a> a new running mate.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavs could be targeting guards like Louisville\u2019s Mikel Brown or hope Arkansas guard Darius Acuff Jr. falls to them.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavs lottery representative was Rolando Blackman for the second straight season. Blackman was the No. 9 pick in the 1981 NBA Draft and had his jersey retired by the franchise in 2000 after 11 years with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever the Mavs pick will be the first player picked under the leadership of <a data-ylk=\"slk:new team president Masai Ujiri;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/sports\/nba\/dallas-mavericks\/article315627610.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">new team president Masai Ujiri<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Wizards have the first pick in the NBA Draft at 7 p.m. on June 26 at the Barclays Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sun, May 10, 2026 at 7:23 PM UTC The Dallas Mavericks got the No. 9 pick in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3793],"tags":[7,686,149,4057,41665,166,39997,6,12,9005],"class_list":["post-731389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-mavericks","tag-basketball","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-dallasmavericks","tag-darius-acuff-jr","tag-mavericks","tag-mikel-brown","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-rolando-blackman"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116555153313651475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731389","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=731389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}