Sunday's NBA draft lottery did not award the Spurs the No. 1 pick again, but they did emerge with the No. 4 and No. 8 slots
The Spurs ' legendary lottery luck paid off again. No, the Spurs did not cash in the No. 1 pick in Sunday's NBA draft lottery drawing in Chicago , like they did last season in winning the right to nab future Rookie of the Year Victor Wembanyama . The team did come away from a pair of top 10 picks, landing at No. 4 and No. 8, which was pretty close to the best-case scenario. The Spurs got the eighth pick from Toronto thanks to the 2022 Jakob Poeltl trade.
Had the Raptors -- who had the sixth-best lottery odds coming in -- landed in the top 6, they could have kept the pick. The Spurs entered the afternoon with the fourth-best odds of hitting the top pick for the fourth time in franchise history . They had a 42.1-percent chance of ending up in the top 4, which they did. Had it not been for last year's No. 1 finish, the fourth and eighth picks would have been the Spurs' highest since drafting Tim Duncan first overall in 1997.
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