Confidence votes 44.0K. There are two rounds. The first round is picks 1-30, and the second round is picks 31-60. The lottery is the first 14 picks of the first round-the picks of the teams that didn't get into the playoffs.
No! Although the plural form of axis is pronounced axies, the plural form is axes.
1540s, imaginary straight line around which a body (such as the Earth) rotates, from Latin axis axle, pivot, axis of the earth or sky, from PIE *aks-axis (cf. Old English eax, Old High German ahsa axle; Greek axon axis, axle, wagon; Sanskrit aksah an axle, axis, beam of a balance; Lithuanian aszis axle).