2026 NBA Draft Lottery and Results Discussion!

No team’s future, immediately and in the long term, could be impacted more Sunday than the LA Clippers’.

They won’t have anyone in the lottery drawing room or on stage, but they could be huge winners — or significant losers.

Here’s why: In a trade deadline deal for center Ivica Zubac in February, the Pacers sent the Clippers their 2026 first-round pick if it falls within Nos. 5 and 9. This is a coin flip.

The Pacers have a 52% chance of getting a pick in the top four and a 48% chance of the pick falling to spots 5 or 6, thus sending it to LA. It’s a gigantic sliding-doors moment.

For the Clippers, it’s a chance to land a potential franchise-changing prospect and kick-start a retrofit they began last winter when they traded Zubac and James Harden.

If they don’t get the pick, they will be forced to wait. As part of the Zubac trade, they’d then get the Pacers’ first-round pick in 2031.