The NBA conducted its tiebreaking process for the league's 2026 draft Monday afternoon, setting the order from 15 to 30 and breaking a pair of ties among teams nestled inside the lottery.
The most consequential result, determined by random drawing at the league's offices in Secaucus, N.J., broke the tie for the fourth-best lottery odds between the Sacramento Kings and the Utah Jazz, with Utah winning and Sacramento landing the fifth-best odds.
The tiebreaker doesn't change much for the lottery, as the two teams split the odds designated for the fourth and fifth spots in the draft. That means both teams have a 45.2% chance of jumping into the top four and an 11.5% chance of winning the top pick. Monday's result also means that the Jazz can't drop out of the top eight in the lottery, guaranteeing that they keep their top-eight protected pick that would have gone to the Oklahoma City Thunder if it landed ninth.