Sacramento Kings Current Draft Lottery Odds

With a handful of games left, the Kings can still move around in the season's final standings. It seems unlikely that they will catch the Dallas Mavericks, but there are two teams behind Sacramento who can bump the Kings into the 12th position for lottery odds.

The Phoenix Suns, Sacramento's direct competition for the final play-in spot, seems like the unlikely candidate to pass them with their schedule, but is always a possibility.

The more likely path for the Kings to drop in the standings is the Miami Heat passing them. The Heat have found their groove with six straight wins, including a 21-point victory over the Boston Celtics.

If either the Heat or Suns pass the Kings, Sacramento's odds of keeping their pick takes a massive jump from 4.7% to 93.3%.

There are benefits to either scenario, as the Kings having their pick this offseason would allow them to draft another young player or use the pick in a potential trade. But they would then owe Atlanta their pick next year with a top-10 protection.

If the pick conveys to the Hawks this offseason, the Kings obviously wouldn't get their pick but would fulfill the Huerter trade and open up more future picks to be traded.

The Kings came into this season with high expectations, with the hope that bringing in DeMar DeRozan would be the move to take them to the next level. But instead, like so many years during the 16-year playoff drought, we are looking at lottery odds over the final stretch of the season.