The probabilities for the 2008 Draft Lottery have been released. The Clippers, who lost the tie-breaker to the New York Knicks, will select 1 through 3 or 6 through 9 in the first round of the 2008 NBA Draft. The Clippers have a 25.2% chance to get a top three pick.

The Clippers have had the No. 1 pick in the draft twice since the team moved from Buffalo in 1970: Danny Manning (1988) and Michael Olowokandi (1998).

• Take a look at the Clippers' Draft History in the Top 10
• Number of Top 10 Picks By The Clippers............26
• Number of Top 5 Picks By The Clippers..............15
• Number of Top 3 Picks By The Clippers..............11
• Number of First Overall Picks By The Clippers......2
• Number of NCAA Div. I Champions Drafted By The Clippers......8
• The Clippers have drafted more players from the University of North Carolina (6) than any other school. San Diego State University is second with 5 players.
• Manute Bol is the tallest player ever drafted by the Clippers (Fifth Round, 97th Pick, 1983) at 7 feet, 6 inches tall.
• Yaroslav Korolev is the youngest player ever drafted by the Clippers (First Round, 12th Pick, 2005) at 18 years, 1 month, and 22 days old.
• Baseball Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn was drafted by the San Diego Clippers (Tenth Round, 210th Pick, 1981) with their final pick of 1981.

Below is the probability for the Clippers in the 2008 Draft Lottery, to be held May 20, at the NBA Entertainment studio in Secaucus, New Jersey.

TEAM	ODDS / 1000	PROBABILITY OF PICK 1 TO 14
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	TOTAL
L.A. Clippers	75	7.50%	8.33%	9.37%	0.00%	0.00%	41.38%	29.41%	3.91%	0.10%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	100.00%

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2008 DRAFT PROSPECTS
	Prospect: Joe Alexander 00:01:01 | Play Watch college highlights of West Virginia forward Joe Alexander.
	Prospect: Darrell Arthur 00:00:56 | Play Watch college highlights of Kansas forward Darrell Arthur.
	Prospect: Jerryd Bayless 00:01:02 | Play Watch college highlights of Arizona guard Jerryd Bayless.
	Prospect: Michael Beasley 00:01:05 | Play Watch college highlights of Kansas State forward Michael Beasley.
	Prospect: Eric Gordon 00:00:54 | Play Watch college highlights of Indiana guard Eric Gordon.
	Prospect: Kevin Love 00:01:01 | Play Watch college highlights of UCLA forward Kevin Love.
	Prospect: O.J. Mayo 00:01:00 | Play Watch college highlights of USC guard O.J. Mayo.
	Prospect: Anthony Randolph 00:00:53 | Play Watch college highlights of LSU forward Anthony Randolph.
	Prospect: Richard Roby 00:00:48 | Play Watch college highlights of Colorado guard Richard Roby.
	Prospect: Derrick Rose 00:00:56 | Play Watch college highlights of Memphis guard Derrick Rose.

2008 NBA DRAFT LOTTERY: WHAT WILL HAPPEN?

The 2008 NBA Draft Lottery, where ping-pong balls supplant basketballs as the tools of determining supremacy, will be held on Tuesday, May 20, at the NBA Entertainment Studios in Secaucus, New Jersey.

The 24th annual edition of the NBA Draft Lottery will determine the order of selection for the first 14 picks of 2008 NBA Draft.

Fourteen ping-pong balls numbered 1 through 14 will be placed in a drum. There are 1,001 possible combinations when four balls are drawn out of 14, without regard to their order of selection. Prior to the Lottery, 1,000 combinations will be assigned to the 14 participating Lottery teams by a computer.

The Miami Heat finished the season with the NBA's worst record (15-67), so they will be assigned 250 combinations. The Golden State Warriors, the best team in the lottery at 48-34, will have five combinations out of 1,000.

Four balls will be drawn to the top to determine a four-digit combination. The team that has been assigned that combination will receive the number one pick. The four balls are placed back in the drum and the process is repeated to determine the number two and three picks. (Note: If the one unassigned combination is drawn, the balls are drawn to the top again.)

The order of selection for the teams that do not win one of the top three picks will be determined by inverse order of their regular season record. Thus, Miami can pick no lower than fourth, Seattle (20-62) no lower than fifth and Minnesota (22-60) no lower than sixth.

The actual Lottery procedure will take place in a separate room prior to the national broadcast with NBA officials and representatives of the participating teams and the accounting firm of Ernst & Young in attendance.

Following the drawing, team logo cards will be inserted into envelopes marked 1 through 14 by an Ernst & Young representative. These envelopes then will be sealed and brought on-stage, where the announcement of the Lottery results will be made by NBA Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver. A second representative from each participating team will be seated on-stage. Neither the Deputy Commissioner nor the team representatives will be informed of the Lottery results prior to the opening of the envelopes.

The team whose logo is in the last envelope opened will pick first in NBA Draft 2008, to be held on Thursday, June 26, at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

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EVOLUTION OF THE NBA DRAFT LOTTERY

The NBA Board of Governors, meeting in Salt Lake City in June of 1984, voted to adopt a lottery system among the non playoff teams to determine their order of selection in the first round of the NBA Draft beginning in 1985.

From 1966 through 1984, the teams that finished with the worst records in each conference participated in a coin flip to determine which team would draft first. The remaining teams picked in inverse order of their won lost records. Under the system adopted prior to the 1985 NBA Draft, the NBA Lottery determines the order of selection for the non playoff teams (or the teams holding their picks through trades) for the first round only. Teams pick in inverse order of their records in the second round (or, prior to the draft being reduced to two rounds in 1989, in all succeeding rounds).

Under a procedural change adopted by the Board of Governors in April of 1986, the Lottery determines the order of selection for the first three teams only. The remaining non playoff teams select in inverse order of their regular season records. Therefore, the team with the worst record in the league is assured of picking no worse than fourth, the team with the second worst record no worse than fifth and so on.

In a further refinement in October of 1989, the Board of Governors adopted a weighted system beginning with the 1990 NBA Draft Lottery, which included 11 teams due to expansion. The team with the worst record during the regular season received 11 chances at the top pick (out of a total of 66), the second worst team got 10 chances and the team with the best record among the non playoff clubs got one chance.

The Board of Governors approved a modification of the Lottery system in November of 1993 that, effective with the 1994 NBA Draft Lottery, increased the chances of the teams with the worst records in the league winning one of the top three picks in the draft while decreasing the lottery chances of the teams with the best records. The new system increased the chances of the team with the worst record drawing the first pick in the draft from 16.7 percent to 25 percent, while decreasing the chances of the team with the best record among lottery teams from 1.5 percent to 0.5 percent.

Under the system, 14 ping pong balls numbered 1 through 14 are placed in a drum. There are 1,001 possible combinations when four balls are drawn out of 14, without regard to their order of selection. Prior to the Lottery, 1,000 combinations are assigned to the Lottery teams based on their order of finish during the regular season. Four balls are drawn to the top to determine a four-digit combination. The team that has been assigned that combination will receive the number one pick. The four balls are placed back in the drum and the process is repeated to determine the number two and three picks. (Note: If the one unassigned combination is drawn, the balls are drawn to the top again.)

In October of 1995, the Board of Governors increased the number of teams participating in the Lottery from 11 to 13 to account for the addition of expansion teams Toronto and Vancouver. Starting in 1996, the team with the worst record in the Lottery continued to have a 25% chance of winning the first pick, teams two through six have slightly fewer chances, team seven has the same number of chances and teams eight through 12 have slightly more chances. The number of chances for team 13 did not change.

The 2004 NBA Draft Lottery increased to 14 teams with the addition of the Charlotte Bobcats. The Bobcats, as part of their expansion agreement were locked into the fourth position in the 2004 Draft and therefore did not have a chance to receive other picks in the Lottery.

The 2008 NBA Draft Lottery decides picks one through 14 and the chances are below for each teams odds to receive the number one selection in the 2008 NBA Draft.

Note: Tied teams split the number of chances and a blind draw determines which team receives an extra chance if the combined number of chances can not be split evenly.

Below is the order of selection for the 2008 NBA Draft, as well as the number of chances for teams in the 2008 NBA Draft Lottery, to be held May 20, at the NBA Entertainment studio in Secaucus, New Jersey.

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ALL-TIME OVERALL NUMBER ONE NBA DRAFT PICKS
2007	Greg Oden	Portland	Ohio State
2006	Andrea Bargnani	Toronto	Italy
2005	Andrew Bogut	Milwaukee	Utah
2004	Dwight Howard	Orlando	SW Atlanta Christian Acad. (GA)
2003	LeBron James	Cleveland	St. Vincents/St. Mary’s H.S.
2002	Yao Ming	Houston	Did Not Attend
2001	Kwame Brown	Washington	Glynn Academy H.S.
2000	Kenyon Martin	New Jersey	Cincinnati
1999	Elton Brand	Chicago	Duke
1998	Michael Olowokandi	L.A. Clippers	Pacific
1997	Tim Duncan	San Antonio	Wake Forest
1996	Allen Iverson	Philadelphia	Georgetown
1995	Joe Smith	Golden State	Maryland
1994	Glenn Robinson	Milwaukee	Purdue
1993	Chris Webber	Orlando	Michigan
1992	Shaquille O'Neal	Orlando	Louisiana State
1991	Larry Johnson	Charlotte	Nevada-Las Vegas
1990	Derrick Coleman	New Jersey	Syracuse
1989	Pervis Ellison	Sacramento	Louisville
1988	Danny Manning	L.A. Clippers	Kansas
1987	David Robinson	San Antonio	Navy
1986	Brad Daugherty	Cleveland	North Carolina
1985	Patrick Ewing	New York	Georgetown
1984	Hakeem Olajuwon	Houston	Houston
1983	Ralph Sampson	Houston	Virginia
1982	James Worthy	L.A. Lakers	North Carolina
1981	Mark Aguirre	Dallas	DePaul
1980	Joe Barry Carroll	Golden State	Purdue
1979	Earvin Johnson	L.A. Lakers	Michigan State
1978	Mychal Thompson	Portland	Minnesota
1977	Kent Benson	Milwaukee	Indiana
1976	John Lucas	Houston	Maryland
1975	David Thompson	Atlanta	No. Carolina St.
1974	Bill Walton	Portland	UCLA
1973	Doug Collins	Philadelphia	Illinois State
1972	LaRue Martin	Portland	Loyola-Chicago
1971	Austin Carr	Cleveland	Notre Dame
1970	Bob Lanier	Detroit	St. Bonaventure
1969	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	Milwaukee	UCLA
1968	Elvin Hayes	Houston	Houston
1967	Jimmy Walker	Detroit	Providence
1966	Cazzie Russell	New York	Michigan

2008 FIRST ROUND DRAFT CHOICE ORDER

The teams entered in the lottery, to be held on May 20, 2008, are as follows (note: the first three picks in the Draft will be determined by the lottery and the remainder of the “lottery teams” will select in positions 4 through 14 in inverse order of their consolidated standings at the end of the regular season):

TEAM	RECORD	LOTTERY CHANCES (out of 1,000)
Miami	15-67	250
Seattle	20-62	199
Minnesota	22-60	138
Memphis	22-60	137
New York	23-59	76
LA Clippers	23-59	75
Milwaukee	26-56	43
Charlotte	32-50	28
Chicago	33-49	17
New Jersey	34-48	11
Indiana	36-46	8
Sacramento	38-44	7
Portland	41-41	6
Golden State	48-34	5

The order for the remainder of the first round picks is as follows:

15. Atlanta (To Phoenix) (37-45)
16. Philadelphia (40-42)
17. Toronto (41-41)
18. Washington (43-39)
19. Cleveland (45-37)
20. Denver (50-32)
21. Dallas (To New Jersey) (51-31)
22. Orlando (52-30)
23. Utah (54-28)
24. Phoenix (To Seattle) (55-27)
25. Houston (55-27)
26. San Antonio (56-26)
27. New Orleans (56-26)
28. LA Lakers (To Memphis) (57-25)
29. Detroit (59-23)
30. Boston (66-16)

2008 SECOND ROUND DRAFT CHOICE ORDER

31. Miami (To Minnesota via Boston)
32. Seattle
33/34. Memphis (To Portland)
33/34. Minnesota
35/36. LA Clippers
35/36. New York (To Portland)
37. Milwaukee
38. Charlotte
39. Chicago
40. New Jersey
41. Indiana
42. Sacramento
43. Portland (To Seattle via Boston)
44. Golden State
45. Atlanta (To Sacramento)
46. Philadelphia (To Utah)
47. Toronto (To San Antonio)
48. Washington
49. Cleveland (To Phoenix)
50. Denver (To Seattle)
51. Dallas
52. Orlando (To Miami)
53. Utah
54. Houston
55. Phoenix (To Portland via Indiana)
56. New Orleans (To Seattle via Houston)
57. San Antonio
58. LA Lakers
59. Detroit
60. Boston

*Please note that teams that finished the regular season with identical records will select in the second round in the reverse of the order in which they select in the first round. With respect to the ties between Memphis and Minnesota (33 and 34); and the Los Angeles Clippers and New York (35 and 36): since the order of selection in the first round for each set of teams may change based on the results of the Draft Lottery, the order of selection in the second round cannot be determined until after the Draft Lottery is conducted (on May 20, 2008).