when is nba lottery

The 2025 NBA Draft Lottery will be held on Monday, May 12, 2025, at 7 p.m. ET. The event will take place in Chicago and will be broadcast live on ESPN. The lottery determines the order of the first 14 picks of the NBA Draft, with drawings conducted for the first four picks. The rest of the lottery teams select in inverse order of their regular-season records. The NBA Draft Lottery is an annual event held in May during the NBA playoffs period. For 2025, the lottery involves the 14 teams that did not make the playoffs, with the three teams with the worst records each having a 14% chance of winning the first overall pick. The actual 2025 NBA Draft will later be held on June 25-26, 2025, in Brooklyn, NY.