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What happens to that Cleveland pick if Utah ends up outside the top 8?

If I got it right, 

one condition is that 

- the Hawks get the less favourable of Hawks and Spurs pick, so that always means the Spurs pick. --> Spurs

the other complex condition is that

- they get they get the less favourable between (a) the Cavs and (b) the more favourable of Utah/Minnesota, and if I Utah is not convertable, which everybody expects it to be, it automatically defaults to the Cavs pick. --> Cavs

The final condition is that they get the better between the results of the two conditions: the Cavs and Spurs, which likely will be the Cavs.

That´s how you land at the Cavs.

If Utah does convert, because it lands outside the top 8, then it would still require both Utah and Minnesota to finish above the Cavs, to convert to one of them, instead of Cleveland.