Cavaliers Win No. 1 Pick In 2014 NBA Draft

The Cleveland Cavaliers won the No. 1 pick in the 2014 NBA Draft at the league's annual lottery drawing on Tuesday night.

Cleveland will select first for the third time in four years. The Cavaliers previously drafted Kyrie Irving with the No. 1 pick in 2011 and Anthony Bennett with the No. 1 pick in 2013.

The Portland Trail Blazers currently do not have a first-round pick this year, as their pick conveyed to the Charlotte Hornets as part of a 2011 trade involving Gerald Wallace. The Blazers also traded their second-round pick to the Denver Nuggets in a 2011 trade involving Raymond Felton.

During an April interview with Dwight Jaynes of CSNNW.com, Blazers GM Neil Olshey hinted that the team might trade into the Draft.

Anyone who's not Paul Allen knows there is no area of our business he is more concerned with than the draft. There's young talent, and we've talked about this before - when you don't have a lot of assets when you take over, you have to generate assets and you have to be opportunistic. The draft is a time for opportunism. You just never know what kind of deal will include a pick. You don't know when you can convey a pick or a future first because there's an opportunity.

Last year, we conveyed two future seconds to grab Allen Crabbe because we thought he was that good and he was a great fit for what we're trying to accomplish. All you have to do is go over the track record of the league at draft time, and how many times deals involved players for picks. People acquire picks within a deal. I moved picks when I was with the Clippers for future picks, in order to get involved with the current draft that could help the roster. You've got to be prepared for that.

It's no different, and we talked about this at the trade deadline, we didn't make a move, but it didn't mean we weren't working around the clock to generate opportunities. We just chose to forego those opportunities because we thought the group as a whole was better served chemistry-wise and growth with what we had brought up to that deadline. I think the draft is the same thing.

The season will end, hopefully later rather than sooner, and we'll take a day to do exit interviews and coaching interviews. We'll back in - we'll be at Chicago pre-draft. We'll be at group workouts in Los Angeles. We'll be bringing guys in here to work out. We'll be watching film and getting our board ready because, again, if you don't do the preparation, you can't get that phone call and know what you're doing if you aren't prepared.

Olshey also addressed the draft during his exit interview with the local media earlier this month.

We've got a lot of young guys. I think everybody gets caught up in the draft because that's what's sexy right now, right? We're a month from the draft, my staff is in Chicago right now. In terms of scouting the draft this is probably more complicated than any draft I've ever been involved in because we don't have a pick, so we're not targeting a specific range in the draft. So we've got to be prepared for anything. One through 60, you just don't know when the phone is going to ring, you don't know a player is available that you can pursue.

I think the reality of having only potentially two roster spots open and available, we've got to be judicious with what we add to that because we're out of the talent acquisition mode. We are out of the asset acquisition mode and now we're about winning games. I think everybody on the roster, the coaching staff, the front office, ownership has gotten a taste and remembered what it's like to be in the second round of the playoffs. And knowing just how close you are to really getting where all of us want to go, which is to still be playing in June, and I think if we can find a player that moves that process forward, then I think we'll be aggressive. If it's draft, it's draft. If it's free agent, it's free agent. If it's trade, it's trade. But the goal is to have a better team on the floor October 1st than we did this past October 1st.

Here's the full 2014 NBA Draft order.

1. Cleveland
2. Milwaukee
3. Philadelphia
4. Orlando
5. Utah
6. Boston
7. LA Lakers
8. Sacramento
9. Charlotte (From Detroit)
10. Philadelphia (From New Orleans)
11. Denver
12. Orlando (From New York via Denver)
13. Minnesota
14. Phoenix
15. Atlanta
16. Chicago (From Charlotte)
17. Boston (From Brooklyn)
18. Phoenix (From Washington)
19. Chicago
20. Toronto
21. Oklahoma City (From Dallas via Houston and LA Lakers)
22. Memphis
23. Utah (From Golden State)
24. Charlotte (From Portland)
25. Houston
26. Miami
27. Phoenix (From Indiana)
28. LA Clippers
29. Oklahoma City
30. San Antonio

-- Ben Golliver | benjamin.golliver@gmail.com | Twitter