Losing now to win later -- or tanking -- is simply not a good strategy. What tends to happen to awful teams is that they take a ride on the lottery treadmill. This ride works as follows.

Now that the order of 2012 NBA draft lottery is decided and we have a perfect understanding—barring any sudden trades—of who drafts where, it's ti...

NEW YORK -- After a painful wait for a new owner, the search for a new star was a breeze for the New Orleans Hornets. All it took was a little luck o...

NEW YORK (AP) — New owner, and now a new star player coming to New Orleans. And yet another loss — in a historic season full of the...

ThursdayAt The Prudential CenterNewark, N.J.First Round 1. New Orleans 2. Charlotte 3. Wa...

The 2012 NBA Draft Lottery consists of 14 teams hoping for the right to select a teenage member of the national champion Kentucky Wildcats. One-and-do...

The following NBA Mock Draft considers the ability of the players and does not incorporate team needs.

Redemption and karma may exist after all: Cleveland has won the NBA Draft lottery. (I'm just happy because I predicted this correctly -- such skill, I...

UPDATE: David Kahn said on Wednesday that his remarks about the NBA draft lottery being fixed were intended as a joke. Despite having the best cha...

The NBA draft lottery took place Tuesday night and the order of the 2011 draft has been revealed. The Cleveland Cavaliers won the No. 1 overall pick, ...

***RESULTS UPDATED*** FROM AP: Those longtime losers from Los Angeles were big winners Tuesday night. The Clippers came across the country for what...