The Los Angeles Lakers ended their regular season with the same record (42-30) as the Dallas Mavericks and the Portland Trail Blazers, which meant that their place in the NBA Draft would be determined by a tiebreaker after the season was over.
On Tuesday, that tie was broken through a lottery machine, and although they didn’t jump all the way to the 21st pick, they didn’t fall to the 23rd pick either. Here are the results of the tiebreaker, per Jonathan Givony of Draft Express:
NBA Draft tiebreaker results:
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