- Cyrus Rogers
Pelicans win 2019 NBA Draft Lottery

The NBA Draft lottery was more eagerly awaited this year than in many previous years with the fate of projected Number 1 draft pick Zion Williamson hanging in the balance. Whoever got Zion would have the eyes of the world on their city for a long time to come. It turned out to be the New Orleans Pelicans who won the 2019 NBA Draft Lottery.
Williamson has garnered as much hype and attention as a young LeBron James did when he was finishing high school and was on the verge of becoming an NBA player. This time it wasn’t Cleveland who would get the pick, though they had a shot at it. It wasn’t to be one of the much-vaunted teams who had trashed their seasons in the hope of acquiring Williamson, teams like the New York Knicks, Cleveland Cavaliers, Phoenix Suns or Chicago Bulls. Instead the pick landed at the feet of the New Orleans Pelicans.
The Pelicans get to pick first in the NBA Draft in June and haven’t done so since the time they drafted Anthony Davis in 2012. Who knows what newly-minted Pels General Manager David Griffin will do with pick as their star player Davis wants out of Louisiana?
Conventional wisdom says that they keep the pick and select Williamson, but he is so valuable, as is Davis, that they could trade both and get rewarded handsomely. That is for the Pelicans to decide, for now the chips have fallen and the teams now know where they will be selecting. Next up is to see where the players get chosen in the NBA Draft on Thursday the 20th of June. There are still a lot of fantastic players to be picked up in the NBA Draft and teams can still be optimistic of securing someone who could change the course of their franchise forever.
Below are the results from NBA Draft Lottery 2019:
1. New Orleans
2. Memphis
3. New York
4. Los Angeles Lakers
5. Cleveland
6. Phoenix
7. Chicago
8. Atlanta
9. Washington
10. Atlanta (from Dallas)
Below is the order for the remainder of the first round and the complete second round for NBA Draft 2019 presented by State Farm:
11. Minnesota
12. Charlotte
13. Miami
14. Boston (from Sacramento via Philadelphia)
15. Detroit
16. Orlando
17. Brooklyn
18. Indiana
19. San Antonio
20. Boston (from LA Clippers via Memphis)
21. Oklahoma City
22. Boston
23. Utah
24. Philadelphia
25. Portland
26. Cleveland (from Houston)
27. Brooklyn (from Denver)
28. Golden State
29. San Antonio (from Toronto)
30. Milwaukee
2019 SECOND ROUND DRAFT CHOICE ORDER
31. Brooklyn (from New York via Philadelphia)
32. Phoenix
33. Philadelphia (from Cleveland via Orlando and New York)
34. Philadelphia (from Chicago via Los Angeles Lakers)
35. Atlanta
36. Charlotte (from Washington via Orlando, Denver and Atlanta)
37. Dallas
38. Chicago (from Memphis)
39. New Orleans
40. Sacramento (from Minnesota via Portland and Cleveland)
41. Atlanta (from Los Angeles Lakers via Cleveland and Indiana)
42. Philadelphia (from Sacramento via Brooklyn and Milwaukee)
43. Minnesota (from Miami via Charlotte)
44. Atlanta (from Charlotte)
45. Detroit
46. Orlando (from Brooklyn via Memphis and Charlotte)
47. Sacramento (from Orlando via New York)
48. LA Clippers
49. San Antonio
50. Indiana
51. Boston
52. Charlotte (from Oklahoma City)
53. Utah
54. Philadelphia
55. New York (from Houston)
56. LA Clippers (from Portland via Detroit and Orlando)
57. New Orleans (from Denver via Milwaukee)
58. Golden State
59. Toronto
60. Sacramento (from Milwaukee)