With a little more than one month before the NBA draft lottery takes place, the league has announced tiebreakers for teams that finished the 2015-16 regular season with identical records.
Per RealGM, the NBA broke the ties by using a coin flip. Here is how the order shook out following Friday's results:
Things could not have worked out better for the Sacramento Kings, who would have to give up their first-round pick if it falls outside the top 10. Per Derek Bodner of USA Today, falling into the eighth position "pretty much eliminates any chance of them falling out of the top 10."
It's not impossible for the Kings to fall outside the top 10, but they would have to be leaped by three teams in the lottery for that to happen.
Of course, as CBS Sports' Matt Moore noted, the dysfunctional Kings may have problems even if they stay in the top 10:
Even if they do get it, is that going to magically fix their problems with, let's see, an owner who can't stop meddling and seems to be squabbling with his minority ownership, a GM that reportedly needs help in understanding the CBA, the coa ...
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