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Wednesday's Wizards Links: Lottery pick heads to Suns

NBA draft lottery finally breaks 76ers’ way; Wizards’ pick heads to Suns: For the first time since the NBA started using ping-pong balls to determine its draft order in 1990, the balls bounced as the odds projected at the league’s annual draft lottery in New York on Tuesday night, delivering the Philadelphia 76ers the second No. 1 overall pick in franchise history. -- The Washington Post

Winners and losers from the NBA’s draft lottery: The NBA conducted its annual draft lottery Tuesday night in New York, determining where teams will pick when next month’s draft is once again held at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. With a nod to The Post’s Chris Cillizza, who does a terrific job with his political winners and losers columns, here is an NBA draft lottery edition of the same format. -- The Washington Post

Unless Wizards trade into NBA draft, no picks: The NBA Draft Lottery came and went Tuesday, and the Washington Wizards stayed in 13th place which means that selection goes to the Phoenix Suns instead. They’ll still begin pre-draft workouts, CSNmidatlantic.com was told, on June 1. -- CSN Mid-Atlantic