This is an explanation to how a draft lottery is conducted.

1. Only the first 14 picks are determined by the lottery.

2. The 14 teams with the lowest record during the preceding season are eligible for the lottery.

3. Each team are given combinations. Treat a combination as a ticket. The lower the number of wins a team had, the more tickets they get.

4. A Ticket has a ticket number (dont we all know that). The ticket number's pattern is a-b-c-d where each number is any number from 1 to 14.

Example. Miami could have been given 1-1-1-1, 1-2-2-2, 1-3-3-3, 1-14-14-14. Miami's winning ticket (the number 2 draft pick) was 1-11-13-7. So this means Miami was also given this ticket.

5. On draft day, 14 ping pong balls number 1 to 14 are deposited into a machine.

6. When drafting begins, they first determine which combination gets draft pick number 1.

7. During the previously conducted lottery, the first ball was 11, then 9, then 7, then 13. Ticket number 11-9-7-13 is owned by Chicago, thus giving Chicago the chance at Beasley or Rose.