Destiny will be determined inside a four-story beige building in the middle of an office park.

The NBA Entertainment Studios, mostly sleepy the other 364 days of the year, will have the attention of much of the basketball world sometime around 8:15 tonight when the fates of LeBron James and the Cavaliers are revealed.

Actually, they will be determined about an hour earlier in a much ballyhooed and scrutinized ceremony that is ultra-secret, more mathematical than mysterious, and takes just a few minutes.

About an hour before ABC goes on the air with an unprecedented prime-time lottery show at 8 p.m., the business will be conducted inside Conference Room 3A. The drawing that has been a main topic of conversation for months, especially to Cavaliers fans, will be over in about 45 seconds. It will all be very official and formal and, of course, guarded. One representative from each of the 13 teams in the lottery will be sealed in the room.