Late last week, we broke down how the NBA’s Play-In Tournament could impact the Bucks’ 2024 first-round draft pick vis-á-vis the Pelicans’ outcome on Friday night. Since New Orleans won and thus made the NBA Playoffs, they avoided the lottery and moved into a tie for the sixth-best record in the league with the Suns and Bucks. That means a random tiebreaker would be necessary to determine the order of picks 21–23 for this June’s NBA Draft, and it was completed Monday night along with all the others needed (another will also affect the Bucks, more on that later): the Bucks got 21, the Suns got 22, and the Pelicans got 23.
NBA Draft news: Bucks win tiebreaker for first-round pick at 21, but Pelicans can swap up from 23
