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Message: [QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 2103435, member: 767"] The team with the worst record has a 25% chance of getting the top pick; even the team with the worst record is three times more likely not to pick first than to pick first. Put another way, this is the 4th (!) season of the tanking. So they have been through 3 drafts with it. In 2014, they had their pick (second worst record) plus the Pelicans pick. That was combined for a about a 20% chance at the first pick, In 2015, the Sixers had the third best record, which gives you a 15.6% chance at the #1 pick. Last year, the Sixers had the worst record, giving them a 25% chance at the top pick, which they ended up with. So all in, in the last 3 years, they should have come away with .6 #1 picks. They won the lottery once. Hard to say they had bad luck. [/QUOTE]