{"id":493723,"date":"2026-04-21T07:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=493723"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:39:21","slug":"nba-draft-2026-utah-wins-tiebreak-with-sacramento-and-keeps-protected-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-draft-2026-utah-wins-tiebreak-with-sacramento-and-keeps-protected-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Draft 2026, Utah wins tiebreak with Sacramento and keeps protected pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1653\" data-end=\"1964\">The <strong data-start=\"1657\" data-end=\"1664\">NBA<\/strong> has finalized the tiebreaking process for the <strong data-start=\"1711\" data-end=\"1725\">2026 Draft<\/strong>, most notably resolving the tie between the <strong data-start=\"1770\" data-end=\"1783\">Utah Jazz<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1788\" data-end=\"1808\">Sacramento Kings<\/strong>. Utah won the drawing and will now hold the fourth-best lottery odds, while Sacramento will have the fifth-best odds.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1966\" data-end=\"2265\">It is a major outcome for the Jazz, because it guarantees they cannot fall outside the top eight in the lottery, meaning they will keep their <strong data-start=\"2108\" data-end=\"2148\">top-eight protected first-round pick<\/strong> instead of sending it to the <strong data-start=\"2178\" data-end=\"2203\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/strong> if it had landed ninth.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2267\" data-end=\"2635\">According to the reported breakdown, both Utah and Sacramento still own a <strong data-start=\"2341\" data-end=\"2350\">45.2%<\/strong> chance of jumping into the top four and an <strong data-start=\"2394\" data-end=\"2403\">11.5%<\/strong> chance of winning the No. 1 pick. The <strong data-start=\"2442\" data-end=\"2463\">NBA Draft Lottery<\/strong> will be held on <strong data-start=\"2480\" data-end=\"2501\">May 10 in Chicago<\/strong>, while the draft itself is scheduled for <strong data-start=\"2543\" data-end=\"2561\">June 23 and 24<\/strong> at <strong data-start=\"2565\" data-end=\"2596\">Barclays Center in Brooklyn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The league finalized the draft-position tiebreakers: the Jazz hold the fourth-best lottery odds, while the Kings land fifth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":394789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-493723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/Utah-Jazz.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493723"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=493723"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=493723"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=493723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}