Here are the Sacramento Kings’ chances of getting top picks in NBA draft
Five ties among teams with identical regular-season records were broken through a series of random drawings Monday to determine lottery odds and the order of selection for the 2025 NBA draft.
The Sacramento Kings won a tiebreaker with the Atlanta Hawks to secure the 13th-best odds of landing one of the top four picks in the draft, which will be held June 25-26. The actual order of selections will be determined during the draft lottery May 12.
The lottery will decide which teams receive the top four picks in the draft. The 10 remaining lottery teams will make their selections from No. 5 to No. 14 in inverse order of their records during the 2024-25 season.
The Kings have a 3.8% chance of vaulting into the top four. They have a 0.8% chance at the No. 1 pick, a 0.9% chance at the No. 2 pick, a 1.0% chance at the No. 3 pick and a 1.1% chance at the No. 4 pick.
The Kings will receive the 13th or 14th pick if they don’t move into the top four, but in that case the pick will be conveyed to the Hawks to complete the 2022 trade that brought Kevin Huerter to Sacramento.
The Utah Jazz, Washington Wizards and Charlotte Hornets have the best lottery odds with a 14% chance of being awarded the No. 1 pick. Cooper Flagg, a 6-foot-9 forward from Duke, is widely projected as the No. 1 pick.
The Kings went 40-42 to finish ninth in the Western Conference. Their season ended with a 120-106 loss to the Dallas Mavericks in the first round of the NBA play-in tournament Wednesday at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.
The Kings parted ways with general manager Monte McNair immediately after the game. By Thursday morning, they were finalizing an agreement to hire longtime NBA executive Scott Perry as their new general manager.
Perry will be tasked with retooling a roster that features DeMar DeRozan, Zach LaVine, Domantas Sabonis, Malik Monk, Keegan Murray and Jonas Valanciunas.
Sacramento needs a point guard after trading De’Aaron Fox to the San Antonio Spurs. The Kings also need to add size, length and depth at the forward spots, but with little chance of keeping their first-round draft pick, they will probably have to address those needs via trades or free agency.
This story was originally published April 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM.
