The NBA conducted its draft tiebreakers on Monday, further cementing the draft order for 2024. While we’ll have to wait until the May 12 draft lottery to learn the exact order for this year’s event, we now know what most of the 58 selections look like.
Listed below is the pre-lottery 2024 NBA draft order. Each lottery team’s chances of landing the No. 1 overall pick is noted in parentheses. We’ve also included notes for picks whose status remains up in the air depending on the lottery results.
The second-round draft order for teams with identical regular season records is the inverse of their first-round order. This rule applies even when one club made the playoffs and one didn’t. For instance, the 46-36 Heat will pick ahead of the 46-36 Kings in the second round.
We’ll provided an updated list after the May 12 lottery, once the official draft order is set, but here’s the tentative 2024 NBA draft order:
First Round:
- Detroit Pistons (14.0%)
- Washington Wizards (14.0%)
- Charlotte Hornets (13.3%)
- Portland Trail Blazers (13.2%)
- San Antonio Spurs (10.5%)
- Toronto Raptors (9.0%)
- Note: The Spurs will receive this pick if it falls out of the top six (54.2%).
- Memphis Grizzlies (7.5%)
- Utah Jazz (6.0%)
- Note: The Thunder will receive this pick if it falls out of the top 10 (0.5%).
- Houston Rockets (from Nets) (4.5%)
- Atlanta Hawks (3.0%)
- Chicago Bulls (2.0%)
- Oklahoma City Thunder (from Rockets) (1.5%)
- Note: The Rockets will retain this pick if it moves into the top four (7.2%).
- Note: The Rockets will retain this pick if it moves into the top four (7.2%).
- Sacramento Kings (0.8%)
- Portland Trail Blazers (from Warriors) (0.7%)
- Note: The Warriors will retain this pick if it moves into the top four (3.4%).
- Miami Heat
- Philadelphia 76ers
- Los Angeles Lakers
- Note: The Pelicans have until June 1 to decide whether they want to acquire this pick or instead acquire the Lakers’ unprotected 2025 first-round pick.
- Orlando Magic
- Toronto Raptors (from Pacers)
- Cleveland Cavaliers
- New Orleans Pelicans (from Bucks)
- Phoenix Suns
- Milwaukee Bucks (from Pelicans)
- New York Knicks (from Mavericks)
- New York Knicks
- Washington Wizards (from Clippers)
- Minnesota Timberwolves
- Denver Nuggets
- Utah Jazz (from Thunder)
- Boston Celtics
Second Round:
- Toronto Raptors (from Pistons)
- Utah Jazz (from Wizards)
- Milwaukee Bucks (from Trail Blazers)
- Note: This pick would move to No. 34 if the Trail Blazers end up with a higher first-round pick than the Hornets via the lottery.
- Portland Trail Blazers (from Hornets)
- Note: This pick would move to No. 33 if the Trail Blazers end up with a higher first-round pick than the Hornets via the lottery.
- San Antonio Spurs
- Indiana Pacers (from Raptors)
- Minnesota Timberwolves (from Grizzlies)
- New York Knicks (from Jazz)
- Memphis Grizzlies (from Nets)
- Portland Trail Blazers (from Hawks)
- Philadelphia 76ers (from Bulls)
- Charlotte Hornets (from Rockets)
- Miami Heat
- Houston Rockets (from Warriors)
- Note: This pick would move to No. 45 if the Warriors end up with a higher first-round pick than the Kings via the lottery.
- Sacramento Kings
- Note: This pick would move to No. 44 if the Warriors end up with a higher first-round pick than the Kings via the lottery.
- Los Angeles Clippers (from Pacers)
- Orlando Magic
- San Antonio Spurs (from Lakers)
- Philadelphia 76ers
- Note: The Sixers forfeited this second-round pick due to free agency gun-jumping.
- Indiana Pacers (from Cavaliers)
- Indiana Pacers (from Pelicans)
- Washington Wizards (from Suns)
- Golden State Warriors (from Bucks)
- Detroit Pistons (from Knicks)
- Boston Celtics (from Mavericks)
- Los Angeles Lakers (from Clippers)
- Denver Nuggets (from Timberwolves)
- Memphis Grizzlies (from Thunder)
- Phoenix Suns (from Nuggets)
- Note: The Suns forfeited this second-round pick due to free agency gun-jumping.
- Dallas Mavericks (from Celtics)
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