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#NBArank: What are every team's best and worst lottery picks?

Editor's note: #NBArank is back! Over the next two weeks, we're ranking everything under the sun: best draft picks, best uniforms, best NBA-city restaurants, best photos and much more. Enjoy!

Who is your team's best pick in the lottery? How about its worst mistake? ESPN Insider's Chad Ford and Kevin Pelton share their lists of the best and worst lottery picks by team in the 32 years since the NBA instituted the draft lottery in 1985.

Pelton's list is based off how players rated in terms of his wins above replacement player (WARP) metric compared to their expected value based on where they were drafted and the overall strength of the draft lottery.