2019 NBA Draft Lottery: The Zion Williamson Sweepstakes Explained

By Norm Elrod
(CBS Chicago/CBS Local) — The 2019 NBA Draft Lottery, scheduled for Tuesday, May 19 in Chicago, offers the luckiest of the NBA’s lesser teams the dream of one day contending. Every non-playoff team team hopes to land a trajectory-changing player in the Draft, or at least add another contributor. The chance of that happening improves the higher a team picks in the draft. And the lottery determines that order.
So what team has the best shot at landing that top spot, and t