Logistics of Bucks draft swap
May 9, 2026 10:22 PM
With the NBA Draft Lottery tomorrow, here's how Milwaukee's pick swap with New Orleans and Atlanta works:
- Atlanta gets the best of NO/MIL lottery picks
- Milwaukee gets the worst of NO/MIL lottery picks
- New Orleans' pick has the seventh-best odds: 29.3% chance at top-four and 6.8% chance at No. 1 overall
- Milwaukee's pick has the 10th-best odds: 19.9% chance at top-four and 3.0% chance at No. 1 overall
- If New Orleans jumps into the top four and Milwaukee doesn't, ATL gets NO's pick and MIL keeps its own
- If Milwaukee jumps into the top four and New Orleans doesn't, ATL gets MIL's pick and MIL gets NO's pick
- If both New Orleans and Milwaukee jump into the top four, ATL gets the higher pick, which would be between No. 1 and No. 3, and MIL gets the lower pick, which would be between No. 2 and No. 4
The trades that netted each team these picks:
Jun. 25, 2025:
NO receives:
- 2025 No. 13 ovr pick (Derik Queen)
ATL receives:
- 2025 No. 23 ovr pick (Asa Newell)
- 2026 first-round pick (best of NO/MIL)
Nov. 24, 2020:
NO receives:
- Steven Adams (from OKC)
- Eric Bledsoe (from MIL)
- 2024 No. 21 ovr (Yves Missi, swap from MIL)
- 2025 No. 19 ovr (Nolan Traore)
- 2026 first-round pick swap with MIL (later sent to ATL)
- 2027 first-round pick (from MIL)
MIL receives:
- Jrue Holiday (from NO)
- Sam Merrill Signing Rights (from NO)
DEN receives:
- R.J. Hampton Signing Rights (from MIL)
OKC receives:
- George Hill (from MIL)
- Darius Miller (from NO)
- Zylan Cheatham Signing Rights (from NO)
- Josh Gray Signing Rights (from NO)
- Kenrich Williams Signing Rights (from NO)
- 2023 No. 37 ovr (Hunter Tyson, from NO)
- 2024 No. 34 ovr (Tyler Kolek, from NO)
- 2023 No. 27 ovr (Nick Smith Jr., from DEN)
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