Um... I THINK that they finished with the 9th worst record, and they only lottery off the top three picks, so once you didn't see Chicago at nine, you knew they had one of those lottery'd picks.
That doesn't make any sense.
Sure it does: the actual lottery is to find out who the top three picks will go to. All the rest go in reverse record order. Chicago had the ninth-worst record in the league, which means that:
1) They could have had pick# 1, 2 or 3 by "winning" the lottery,
2) They could have had pick# 10, 11 or 12 in the near-mathematical impossible scenario that three of the teams that finished with better records all "won" the lottery, or
3) They would have had pick# 9.
There was no possible way for them to finish with the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 13th or 14th picks; they would have either won the lottery, or they would have ended up with the pick their record dictated... unless, as mentioned above, three of the teams that finished 10-14 ended up with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd picks. Which is almost impossible.
Clear as mud?