Context:

The Utah Jazz experienced another setback in the NBA draft lottery, securing only the fifth pick despite having the league's worst record. This marks the third consecutive year that the team with the poorest performance ended up with the fifth pick, highlighting the risks of tanking under the current lottery system. The Jazz, along with the Washington Wizards and Charlotte Hornets, who also had poor records, missed out on acquiring top prospects like Duke's Cooper Flagg. The current draft lottery system offers the three worst teams just a 14 percent chance each at securing the top pick, drastically reducing the odds of teams with the worst records to improve significantly through the draft. The outcome raises questions about whether pursuing poor season records to secure a high draft pick is a viable strategy moving forward.

Dive Deeper:

• The Utah Jazz were disappointed in the NBA draft lottery, receiving the fifth pick despite having the worst record, a fate shared by the worst-performing team for the third year in a row.

• Under the current draft system, the three teams with the worst records, including the Jazz, Wizards, and Hornets, only have a 14 percent chance each at obtaining the top pick, lowering their probability of a meaningful draft improvement.

• Instead of acquiring promising talent like Cooper Flagg, the Jazz must settle for a prospect with more uncertainties, underscoring the inherent vulnerabilities in the modern draft lottery system.

• The current draft system, which previously allowed the worst team a 25 percent chance at the top pick, now significantly diminishes the likelihood of securing a transformative player through the draft.

• The Jazz, Wizards, and Hornets are left contemplating their strategy, possibly eyeing top prospects like Duke's Cameron Boozer or BYU's A.J. Dybantsa in the next draft, but the recent outcome questions the validity of tanking for better picks.

• In the NBA's current draft lottery system, the team with the worst record in the NBA can fall no further than the No. 5 pick in the annual ping-pong-ball aligning.

• For three years in a row, the team in that worst-record spot has wound up with the fifth pick.

• The Utah Jazz were the latest to suffer that fate. Instead of getting a chance to take Duke's Cooper Flagg, they will instead wind up with a draft prospect that has serious warts.

• It's a brutal blow for Utah, and for the Wizards, who will pick No. 6, the lowest they could've fallen down the board, too.

• It shows the perils of tanking in the modern system.

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• The worst record in the league used to have up to a 25 percent chance of the top pick.

• Now, the three-worst records each have a 14 percent chance at No. 1. This year, that was the Jazz, Wizards and Hornets.

• That leaves an 86 percent chance someone else gets the top spot, although you'd then hope there wouldn't be a fall four spots down the board and maybe instead only one or two.

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• Because of Monday night's outcome, the Jazz, Wizards and Hornets might very well find themselves back seeking the top spot in next year's draft.

• That might lead to either Duke's Cameron Boozer or BYU's A.J. Dybantsa.

• But given how this lottery went, maybe that's not a tanking gamble worth taking.

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