NBA DRAFT LOTTERY – The 2012 NBA Draft Lottery will take place tonight (Wednesday, May 30) at 7 p.m. CDT and will be televised on ESPN. Below are some notes regarding the Bucks history in the lottery:
- The Bucks enter the lottery with a 0.7% chance of landing the top pick, and a 2.54% chance of moving into the top three. Here's a look at Milwaukee’s odds of landing each possible pick:
No. 1 Pick: 0.70% No. 12 Pick: 93.55%
No. 2 Pick: 0.83% No. 13 Pick: 3.89%
No. 3 Pick: 1.01% No. 14 Pick: 0.02%
- This year marks Milwaukee’s 15th appearance in the Draft Lottery, which includes the 2003 lottery pick the Bucks received from Atlanta in the Glenn Robinson trade.
- Milwaukee has won the first overall pick through the lottery twice (1994 – Glenn Robinson; 2005 – Andrew Bogut). The Bucks have never received a No. 2 or No. 3 pick through the lottery.
- In their 14 previous lottery appearances, the Bucks have remained in the same draft position seven times, fallen five times and improved their position twice (the two No. 1 picks referenced above).
- If the Lottery holds to form, it will mark the third time in franchise history that Milwaukee has owned the 12th overall pick. The Bucks selected George Johnson (St. John’s) in 1978 and Julius Erving (Massachusetts) in 1972 with the 12th pick.
- In the 18 years of the current Draft Lottery system (beginning with the 1994 Lottery), the team with the best odds has won the top overall pick just twice (Cleveland in 2003; Orlando in 2004).
- Under the current lottery system, the lowest seeded team entering the lottery to win the top overall pick was Chicago, which jumped from No. 9 to No. 1 in 2008. The biggest overall jump under the current system belongs to the Charlotte Hornets, who improved from No. 13 to No. 3 in 1999.
- The Orlando Magic moved from No. 11 to No. 1 in 1993, representing the biggest jump to the top pick in NBA Lottery history, though the format in 1993 was different than it is today.
A complete list of Bucks lottery picks is below:
Year Player Pick School/Country
2011 Jimmer Fredette 10th Brigham Young
2009 Brandon Jennings 10th Lottomatica Roma
2008 Joe Alexander 8th West Virginia
2007 Yi Jianlian 6th China
2005 Andrew Bogut 1st Utah
2003* T.J. Ford 8th Texas
2002 Marcus Haislip 13th Tennessee
1998 Dirk Nowitzki 9th Germany
1997 Danny Fortson 10th Cincinnati
1996 Stephon Marbury 4th Georgia Tech
1995 Gary Trent 11th Ohio
1994 Glenn Robinson 1st Purdue
1993 Vin Baker 8th Hartford
1992 Todd Day 8th Arkansas
*Pick obtained in a trade with Atlanta
NBA SUMMER LEAGUE – The Milwaukee Bucks will return to Las Vegas this summer as part of a record 24-team field in the 2012 NBA Summer League. From July 13-22, 23 NBA teams, including 11 that participated in the NBA Playoffs, as well as a team of NBA D-League Select players will compete at the Thomas & Mack Center and the COX Pavilion on the campus of the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
The 2012 competition will mark the eighth summer that the league has been held in Las Vegas since its inception in 2004. Each of the participating teams will play five games each for a total of 60 contests over the course of the event’s 10 days. Gatorade will support the 2012 NBA Summer League and serve as an Associate Partner. A complete summer league schedule will be available at a later date.