The Portland Trail Blazers will be attending the annual NBA Draft lottery festivities next month for the second straight year. Yesterday’s loss to the Sacramento Kings locked the Blazers out of the playoffs and in to a claim on one of June's top 14 draft picks.
This pushes the Blazers’ first-round obligation to the Chicago Bulls — created as part of the 2021 trade that yielded Larry Nance Jr. — out until at least 2024.
On May 16, the Blazers will send a representative to the east coast in the hopes that a particular ping pong ball is selected first.