{"id":145075,"date":"2018-05-16T11:35:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T16:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=145075"},"modified":"2018-05-16T11:35:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T16:35:34","slug":"nba-draft-lottery-suns-have-number-1-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=145075","title":{"rendered":"NBA draft lottery, Suns have Number 1 pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-145076\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sunslotterypick2018-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sunslotterypick2018-300x235.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sunslotterypick2018-768x602.jpg 768w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sunslotterypick2018-223x175.jpg 223w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Sunslotterypick2018.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 Phoenix has won the No. 1 pick in next month\u2019s NBA Draft.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time the Suns will have the chance to make the first overall selection. The Suns had the right combination of ping-pong balls pop up for them at the Draft Lottery on Tuesday night, a reward of sorts after a season where Phoenix had the NBA\u2019s worst record at 21-61.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix lost a coin flip for the top pick in 1969 to Milwaukee. The Bucks took Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The Suns took Neal Walk.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento will pick No. 2 and Atlanta got the No. 3 pick \u2014 both of them moving up to get there. The top three spots were determined by the lottery, and then spots 4-14 fell in line of reverse order of record. The rest of the slots, in order, went to No. 4 Memphis, No. 5 Dallas, No. 6 Orlando, No. 7 Chicago, No. 8 Cleveland, No. 9 New York, No. 10 Philadelphia, No. 11 Charlotte, No. 12 and No. 13 both went to the Los Angeles Clippers and No. 14 Denver.<\/p>\n<p>The draft will be held on June 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNDATED (AP) \u2014 Phoenix has won the No. 1 pick in next month\u2019s NBA Draft. It\u2019s the first time the Suns will have the chance to make the first overall selection. The Suns had the right combination of ping-pong balls pop up for them at the Draft Lottery on Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":145076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145077,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145075\/revisions\/145077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}