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2016 NBA Draft Lottery on-stage/drawing room participants

By John Buhler

Jun 26, 2015; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Flip Saunders and number one overall draft pick Karl-Anthony Towns pose with his new jersey at Mayo Clinic Square. Mandatory Credit: Brad Rempel-USA TODAY Sports
Jun 26, 2015; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Flip Saunders and number one overall draft pick Karl-Anthony Towns pose with his new jersey at Mayo Clinic Square. Mandatory Credit: Brad Rempel-USA TODAY Sports /
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Here are the 28 people, representing 14 different NBA franchises, who will be either on stage or in the back room for Tuesday’s 2016 NBA Draft Lottery.

The 2016 NBA draft lottery commences on Tuesday night with 14 different NBA franchises hoping that the ping-pong balls cooperate, allowing them to draft either LSU Tigers small forward Ben Simmons or Duke Blue Devils small forward Brandon Ingram No. 1 overall in the 2016 NBA Draft coming up in a few weeks.

With the lottery being an important televised event, Basketball Insiders’ Cody Taylor Tweeted out on Monday afternoon who the 28 people will be in attendance at Tuesday’s lottery: one player representing the franchise on stage and one in the lottery room.

Five of the 14 teams participating in the lottery will have a player representing them in the on-stage portion of the event: Boston Celtics All-Star point guard Isaiah Thomas, Chicago Bulls All-Star shooting guard Jimmy Butler, unanimous 2015-16 NBA Rookie of the Year center Karl-Anthony Towns of the Minnesota Timberwolves, No. 13 overall pick in the 2015 NBA Draft shooting guard Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns, and No. 6 overall pick in last year’s draft, center Willie Cauley-Stein of the Sacramento Kings.

Four NBA head coaches will represent their clubs on stage as well: Denver Nuggets’ Michael Malone, Milwaukee Bucks’ Jason Kidd, New Orleans Pelicans’ Alvin Gentry, and Philadelphia 76ers’ Brett Brown. With these four coaches inclusion in the lottery, it seems that all four are in good standing with their respective NBA teams after bad 2015-16 NBA seasons.

Other notable people in attendance for this NBA Draft Lottery included Los Angeles Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak, Orlando Magic senior vice president Pat Williams, and Toronto Raptors general manager Masai Ujiri.

With several potentially great players available in the top half of the 2016 NBA Draft, which team will have the good fortune of landing their next superstar in this summer’s draft?

For more 2016 NBA Draft coverage, please check out our NBA Draft category page.

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