Pro Basketball Rookie Draft Lottery to Be Held on November 9

The Korean Basketball League (KBL) announced that the lottery to determine the draft selection order for this year's rookie players will take place at 2:00 PM on November 9 at the KBL Center in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.

The draw will be divided into the first lottery, which determines picks 1 through 4, and the second lottery, which determines picks 5 through 8.

The probabilities for each club are applied differently based on their final rankings from the previous season.

Playoff champion Busan KCC and runner-up Goyang Sono will be automatically assigned the 10th and 9th picks, respectively.

In the first lottery, Suwon kt, Ulsan Hyundai Mobis, Daegu KOGAS Pegasus, and Seoul Samsung—teams that failed to make the six-team playoffs—will each have a 20 percent chance.

Wonju DB and Seoul SK, which were eliminated in the six-team playoffs, will each have a 7 percent chance, while Changwon LG and Anyang Jung Kwan Jang, eliminated in the semifinals, will each have a 3 percent chance.

The four clubs that do not receive picks 1 through 4 in the first lottery will move on to the second lottery.

The second lottery will determine the remaining rookie draft order by applying probabilities of 40 percent, 30 percent, 20 percent, and 10 percent in the reverse order of the previous season's regular league standings.

The draft itself will be held at 3:00 PM on November 20 at Jamsil Student Gymnasium in Seoul.
 
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