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“You’ve gotta be in it to win it” apparently doesn’t mean much to the Knicks or the Nets.
The two local NBA teams didn’t adhere to that longstanding Lotto motto, trading away their respective 2016 first-round picks long before Tuesday night’s Draft Lottery will be held in New York.
The Knicks and the Nets can only watch to see where the teams they dealt their picks to will wind up in the weighted draft ordering process.
By virtue of the 2011 Carmelo Anthony trade, the Denver Nuggets can swap picks with the Knicks — and therefore, will receive the better of the selections between the teams. Whichever pick is left over then will move to the Toronto Raptors, as part of the Andrea Bargnani deal in 2013.
The Boston Celtics control the Nets’ pick, likely to be the third overall entering the lottery, as a result of the Kevin Garnett/Paul Pierce blockbuster in 2013.
Nets fans got a season-plus of Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce in exchange for a package of future draft picks that could see the No. 1 pick this year — and in the next two years — go to Boston.
(COREY SIPKIN/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
Here are some other things you need to know heading into Tuesday’s lottery:
Time: 8 p.m.
TV: ESPN
Odds of winning:
The Knicks won't hear their name called during Tuesday's NBA Draft Lottery as a result of the Carmelo Anthony trade and the Andrea Bargnani deal.
(JULIE JACOBSON/AP)- 1. Philadelphia, 25 percent.
- 2. LA Lakers, 19.9 percent.
- 3. Boston (via Nets), 15.6 percent.
- 4. Phoenix, 11.9 percent.
- 5. Minnesota, 8.8 percent.
- 6. New Orleans, 6.3 percent.
- 7. Denver (via Knicks), 4.3 percent.
- 8. Sacramento, 1.9 percent.
- 9. Toronto (via Denver), 1.9 percent.
- 10. Milwaukee, 1.8 percent.
- 11. Orlando, 0.8 percent.
- 12. Utah, 0.7 percent.
- 13. Phoenix (via Washington), 0.6 percent.
- 14. Chicago, 0.5 percent.
SIX SHOOTING: If the Lakers finish outside the top 3, their pick will go to Philadelphia. The protected pick initially was moved as part of the trade to acquire Steve Nash, and then again to the Sixers during the 2015 three-team trade in which Phoenix acquired Brandon Knight from Detroit. If Sacramento wins the lottery, Philadelphia also has the right to swap picks with the Kings from last summer's Nik Stauskas trade.
TIE GOES TO: Because Sacramento, Denver and Milwaukee finished the season tied with records of 33-49, the odds of the eighth, ninth and tenth spots in the lottery were averaged and split among the three teams, with coin flips determining which team received one fewer tenth of a percentage point.
TOP LOTTERY MOMENT: Certainly locally, the first ever NBA lottery produced the most memorable result when the Knicks landed the right to select Georgetown center Patrick Ewing with the top overall pick in 1985. Frozen envelope, anyone?
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