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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The lottery is a high-stakes night based on nothing but pure luck. It can sway the directions of franchises one ping-pong ball at a time.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...