Sometime around 6 p.m. EDT Monday, locked inside a secure room with no way of communicating with the outside world, team executives and others will watch 14 ping-pong balls start to bounce inside ...

NEW YORK – In front of a lottery ping-pong ball machine in a private banquet room turned NBA studio at a massive Manhattan hotel, NBA vice president of basketball operations Kiki VanDeWeghe said ...

First, 14 ping-pong balls are loaded into a lottery machine, each of them labeled with a number between 1 and 14 (1, 2, 3, etc.). Why 14? Because there are 1,001 different four-digit number ...

The draft lottery uses 14 ping pong balls, each marked with a number from 1 to 14. To choose a pick, four balls are drawn one after another. These four numbers form a combination.

Far less known are details about the so-called hopper and ping pong balls that will determine which of the NBA’s 14 lottery teams get the coveted No. 1 pick and on which Williamson's future hinges.

Behind them, the four-number combinations spit out by the lottery’s ping-pong ball machine led to the Kings jumping up into the No. 2 spot and the Hawks moved one spot up into the No. 3 position.

The draft lottery uses 14 ping pong balls, each marked with a number from 1 to 14. To choose a pick, four balls are drawn one after another. These four numbers form a combination.

Fourteen ping pong balls numbered from 1 to 14 were placed in an airblown lottery machine provided by Smart Play. Smart Play is the same company that also provides lottery devices for the NBA and ...

Sometime around 6 p.m. EDT Monday, locked inside a secure room with no way of communicating with the outside world, team executives and others will watch 14 ping-pong balls start to bounce inside ...

Sometime around 6 p.m. EDT Monday, locked inside a secure room with no way of communicating with the outside world, team executives and others will watch 14 ping-pong balls start to bounce inside ...

The reason there are 14 lottery spots but only 13 teams with a chance to win the No. 1 pick is because Atlanta’s odds convey to San Antonio, essentially meaning the Spurs are in the lottery twice — ...