The Cleveland Cavaliers still went into the night with a 14.0% chance to land the top pick in the 2019 NBA Draft and a 40.1 percent chance to land in the top three (per Tankathon). However, with the new draft lottery odds (as we’ve often noted), Cleveland also had a 47.9% chance of falling outside the top four at either the fifth or sixth overall pick.
Almost right from the start of the lottery, you could tell this one would be vastly different than the ones we witnessed in the past.
The Los Angeles Lakers, who had the 11th-best odds to get the top pick, were vaulted up into the top 4 along with the Memphis Grizzlies, who had just the eighth-best odds at grabbing the No.