What the NBA Gets Wrong About Lottery Pick Protections

circumstances -- for instance, a top-five protected pick stays with the team if the pick is one of the top five in the draft lottery

protected pick in the hyped Cooper Flagg draft The Warriors would be better off with a 2025 pick than a top one this year, the thinking goes

what are the chances of winning the lottery That pick is Top-6 protected for this year's draft, which means the Raptors will send it to the Spurs unless it falls in the first six picks of

what is three betting in poker pick, moving the fifth-pick on draft night and picking up a future top-5 protected first in the deal All that rigamarole equaled three-time