Cohen: If There Were No Draft Lottery....
1 / 17Josh Cohen’s Analysis: The NBA’s Draft Lottery system that determines draft order makes it pretty much impossible to predict whom the top prospects will start their careers with. But imagine if there was no draft lottery and draft order was decided based on record and nothing else – like the NFL’s method. Well, just about everything would be different in the NBA and some of the best No. 1 and No. 2 draft picks over the last 20 years would be on different teams. CLICK NEXT for some analysis.