Bulls Get No. 14 Pick In NBA Draft
By Cody Westerlund--
(CBS) There was no lottery luck for the Bulls this time around.
As expected after finishing the regular season with the best record among teams that didn't make the playoffs, Chicago has secured the No. 14 pick in the NBA Draft on June 23, it was revealed at the draft lottery in New York City on Tuesday evening.
The Bulls entered the night with 98.18 percent odds to nab the No. 14 pick and just a 1.8 percent chance of leaping into a top-three spot, including a 0.5 percent shot at the No. 1 slot.
The top pick went to the 76ers, while the Lakers nabbed the No. 2 pick and the Celtics slotted at No. 3, by virtue of a pick owed to them from the Nets. The draft lottery followed the probabilities.
The last time the Bulls were in the lottery was in 2008, when they overcame 1.7 percent odds to win the No. 1 pick, which they used on Derrick Rose.
The first-rounder the Bulls are owed from the Kings didn't convey because it was top-10 protected and Sacramento nabbed the No. 8 pick. That pick now rolls over to 2017, when it will again be top-10 protected. If the Kings are again among the league's worst and have another top-10 pick in 2017, they'll keep that first-rounder and instead convey a second-rounder to the Bulls.
In addition to the No. 14 pick, the Bulls also hold a second-round pick at No. 48 overall. That pick is the Trail Blazers' and was acquired as part of the deal with the Cavaliers that sent Luol Deng to Cleveland in January 2014.
The Bulls don't own their own second-round pick at No. 47 overall because they shipped it to the Magic as part of a package in July 2014 to unload the contract of Anthony Randolph that they'd acquired while moving up to select Doug McDermott on draft night.
The Bulls are widely believed to be eyeing a guard in the draft. In 2015, they were planning to select a guard before big man Bobby Portis surprisingly fell to them at No. 22.