Dan Patrick reflects on attending the 1985 NBA Draft lottery, sharing his interactions with David Stern and tracing the origins of the frozen envelope debate that hasn't quieted around the Knicks ...

Since 1985, the NBA has used a lottery-style process to determine the first several picks of the league's annual draft. Since ...

It's been 40 years since the first NBA draft lottery. The New York Knicks won it back in 1985 and got to draft Patrick Ewing.