Throughout the 2019/20 NBA season, Hoops Rumors will be maintaining a feature that allows you to keep an eye on what the 2020 draft order will look like. Our 2019/20 Reverse Standings tool, which lists the NBA’s 30 teams from worst to first, will be updated daily to reflect the outcomes of the previous night’s games.
Our Reverse Standings are essentially a reflection of what 2020’s draft order would look like with no changes to lottery position. We’ve noted each club’s odds of landing the No. 1 overall pick, based on the league’s current lottery format.
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In instances where two non-playoff teams or two playoff teams have identical records, the order in our standings isn’t necessarily definitive — for draft purposes, the NBA breaks ties via random drawings, so those drawings would happen at the end of the year. Of course, the 14 non-playoff teams all draft before the 16 playoff teams, even if some non-playoff teams have better records than playoff teams. Our reverse standings account for that.
Traded first-round picks are included via footnotes. For example, the note next to Cleveland’s pick says that the Cavaliers will send their pick to the Pelicans if it’s not in the top 10. As of today, Cleveland has the NBA’s fourth-worst record, meaning that pick wouldn’t change hands, even if several teams were to leapfrog the Cavs in the lottery.
Our Reverse Standings tracker can be found at anytime on the right sidebar under “Hoops Rumors Features” on our desktop site, or on the “Features” page in our mobile menu. It’s a great resource not just for monitoring a team’s draft position, but also for keeping an eye on whether or not traded picks with protection will be changing hands in 2020. So be sure to check back often as the season progresses!
Note: Mobile users are advised to turn their phones sideways when viewing the Reverse Standings in order to see team records and lottery odds.
As a Warriors fan, this is what I’m talking about for this season. The reverse standings !!
Just like the old days in the 80s 90s a lot of the 2000s. My favorite NBA date was the NBA draft and a few weeks before that, the draft lottery to see if Golden State could get a higher pick. Woohoo !!
I still cringe thinking about Joe Smith picked instead of Antonio McDyess. Todd Fuller, Ike diogu, Patrick O’Bryant, Michael pietrus, Juri Welsh…, Mike Dunleavy Jr even, LOL.
Sounds like it didn’t matter that the Warriors selected Joe Smith.
It kind of did. Watching Antonio McDyess and his high-flying dunk act would have been a lot more fun than watching Joe Smith shoot 12 to 15 foot foul line jumpers.
Joe was part of my most favorite WTF nba deals…
February 21, 2008: As part of a 3-team trade, traded by the Chicago Bulls with Ben Wallace and a 2009 2nd round draft pick (Danny Green was later selected) to the Cleveland Cavaliers; the Chicago Bulls traded Adrian Griffin to the Seattle SuperSonics; the Cleveland Cavaliers traded Shannon Brown, Drew Gooden, Larry Hughes and Cedric Simmons to the Chicago Bulls; the Cleveland Cavaliers traded Donyell Marshall and Ira Newble to the Seattle SuperSonics; and the Seattle SuperSonics traded Wally Szczerbiak and Delonte West to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
How about in 1980 when the Warriors traded Robert Parish and the draft rights to Kevin McHale to get Joe Barry Carroll? Ouch.
That could be one of the worst trades in the history of basketball. It set up the Celtics for the next decade and ruin the Warriors 4 quite a while.
Instead of McDyess? Garnett was in that draft.
And Rasheed Wallace and Jerry Stackhouse.