Lotto means lottery.

Many procedures and rules of NBA draft are still like "seeing flowers in the fog" for some China fans. According to the time division, the annual NBA draft can be roughly divided into two parts. The first part is the draft lottery: the NBA began to implement the draft lottery from 1985. Every year when the playoffs are in full swing, the NBA will convene teams that fail to enter the playoffs to hold a lottery ceremony to determine the ownership of the top three draft picks in the future. In the lucky draw ceremony, the host will take out 1- 14 ping-pong balls and put them into the container. Four balls are randomly selected from 14 balls, regardless of numerical order. A * * can produce 100 1 possible combinations. Before the draw, the teams that didn't qualify for the playoffs had been ranked in reverse order according to the regular season record, and the corresponding combination number (probability) of winning the first prize was obtained. For example, 14 teams failed to make the playoffs this year. In this 14 team, the eagle with the worst record got 250 combinations, that is, there was a 25% chance to win the first place, and the wasp with the second worst record got 199, that is, 19.9% chance, and so on,/kloc-0.9%. After the draw for No.1 draft, four table tennis balls were put back into the container, and the ownership of No.2 and No.3 draft picks was decided again. After that, the remaining No.4-30 draft picks in the first and second rounds were decided in reverse order according to the results of the regular season.

In addition to the regular draft procedures, the NBA has added some special rules for American high school graduates and overseas players to participate in the draft. The following are NBA labor and capital

The agreement stipulates that these two types of players can participate in the NBA draft.

Rules for American high school graduates to apply for conscription.

(a) Players who have settled in the United States and completed high school can give a written notice to the NBA 45 days before the start of the draft, and will be awarded after expressing their willingness to give up entering the university to continue their studies.

Eligible for the NBA draft. Once a player is selected by any NBA team, the following rules will apply:

(i) According to (b) below, if a player does not join the college basketball team, he will be eligible to participate in the NBA draft. On the day when he announced that he would give up the opportunity to enter the university, he won the participation.

If there is an NBA team that invites players every year as required during the qualification period, then this team will be the only team that can sign a player contract with him.

In this part, once a player fails to give up the qualification to join the college basketball team after winning the NBA draft, the draft will be regarded as "two" for him.

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Players who are selected as "second choice" will abide by the applicable rules. If a player is selected because he gave up college basketball qualification in the draft and did not sign a contract with the team that selected him.

Contract members are also players who failed to be selected as "second choice" (explained in the previous statement), and we call them new free agents.

(ii) If a player joins the college basketball team, he can still be eligible to participate in the NBA draft once he gives up the opportunity to continue playing for the college basketball team. At that time, I used to be

NBA teams that choose him in the draft and send invitations to players every year as required will reserve the priority to discuss and sign player contracts with him one year after the draft date.

In this part, once a player fails to give up his qualification to participate in the college basketball team after obtaining the qualification of the NBA draft, the draft will be regarded as his "primary election".

A draft is regarded as a "second choice". Players who are selected as "second choice" will abide by the applicable rules.

(b) Players who have settled in the United States and completed high school will be eligible if they are not eligible to participate in the NBA draft and sign contracts with professional basketball teams outside the United States.

NBA draft If selected, he will be regarded as a "player" as defined in Section 4 above. In this section, "professional basketball team" refers to a player from any country.

Any kind of money or compensation paid to the basketball players who play for him, which exceeds the general living expenses of the basketball team.

Rules for overseas players to participate in NBA draft

(a) In this section, "overseas player" means any amateur or professional basketball player who is designated to live outside the United States.

(b) Overseas players are eligible to participate in the NBA draft after reaching the age of 22. Any player who is over 22 years old and is not selected in the draft on his 22nd birthday is called a newcomer.

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(c) Despite the provisions in subsection (b) above, overseas players who have never participated in the American college basketball team are still eligible to participate in the draft before their 22nd birthday:

(1) Before conscription, he must be at least 18 years old;

(ii) He must give a written notice to the NBA 45 days before the draft starts, expressing his wish to be qualified to participate in the draft.

(d) If an overseas player plays for the American college basketball team in the season before the draft, he must abide by the provisions in Section 5 above on continuing to complete or give up college studies.

Traditionally, the rules of the draw ceremony in NBA draft are: put 1 to 14/4 table tennis balls into a drum, and choose four balls from them to form a combined result. A * * will have 100 1 combination results. If one result is ignored, the remaining 1000 results will be randomly assigned to 13 teams by the computer.