After winning the first pick last year, the Spurs have the fifth best odds for the number one pick in 2024

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The Spurs won last year’s NBA Draft Lottery, and ended up picking a generational talent and the franchise centerpiece for the foreseeable future with Victor Wembanyama. There’s nobody like that is this year’s draft, but the Spurs could benefit greatly by picking in the top four, or they could slip down a few slots if one or more teams with lower odds leapfrog them by winning one of the top spots.

Their record gives them the fifth best odds of getting the top spot, and fans of the Silver and Black also want to keep eyes on teams later in the lottery, because if one or more of the teams in the seventh to fourteenth best odds skips past Toronto in the sixth slot (and also Toronto doesn’t bag a top four spot), the Raptors’ top six protected pick would convey to the Spurs this year.

The NBA draft will be held on June 26 and 27 this year, and the results of today’s lottery will allow fans to start thinking up their dream scenarios in earnest starting today.

A good source for information about how the draft lottery works and odds is Tankathon.com, and they also have a very good lottery simulator so you can try you luck with the ping pong balls.

Lottery Prediction:

The Spurs will once again win the top pick, and Brooklyn (pick traded to Houston) hopscotches past Toronto into fourth, meaning that Toronto’s seventh pick conveys to San Antonio (as predicted by my one roll of the Tankathon.com lottery simulator in early April).

One final word:

Go Spurs GOOOOOO!!

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