NBA Draft 2016: Full List of Pick Tiebreakers Announced

With a little more than one month before the NBA draft lottery takes place, the league has announced tiebreakers for teams that finished the 2015-16 regular season with identical records.

Per RealGM, the NBA broke the ties by using a coin flip. Here is how the order shook out following Friday's results:

Team	2016 Record	Draft Slot
Sacramento Kings	33-49	8th Lottery Position
Denver Nuggets	33-49	9th Lottery Position
Milwaukee Bucks	33-49	10th Lottery Position
Atlanta Hawks	48-34	21st
Charlotte Hornets	48-34	22nd
Boston Celtics	48-34	23rd
Miami Heat (Pick goes to Philadelphia 76ers)	48-34	24th

Things could not have worked out better for the Sacramento Kings, who would have to give up their first-round pick if it falls outside the top 10. Per Derek Bodner of USA Today, falling into the eighth position "pretty much eliminates any chance of them falling out of the top 10."

It's not impossible for the Kings to fall outside the top 10, but they would have to be leaped by three teams in the lottery for that to happen.

Of course, as CBS Sports' Matt Moore noted, the dysfunctional Kings may have problems even if they stay in the top 10:

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Even if they do get it, is that going to magically fix their problems with, let's see, an owner who can't stop meddling and seems to be squabbling with his minority ownership, a GM that reportedly needs help in understanding the CBA, the coach who has been nearly fired three times inside of a year of being on the job and a roster of bad defenders wrapped around the most incendiary personality on-court in the NBA right now?

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Per RealGM, the Miami Heat, Boston Celtics, Atlanta Hawks and Charlotte Hornets will pick in inverse order during the second round. So the Heat earned the 51st selection, followed by the Celtics (52), Hornets (53) and Hawks (54).

Even though the Heat will have to send their first-round pick to the Philadelphia 76ers, none of those teams is in a bad position. They are all solid playoff teams run by smart front offices that know how to find and develop talent.

The 2016 NBA draft is expected to be headlined by LSU's Ben Simmons and Duke's Brandon Ingram. The league's future will begin coming into focus when the lottery takes place May 19, with the draft happening June 23.