US Edition2025 NBA Draft order: Lottery odds, chances for No. 1 pick as Cooper Flagg's likely landing spot is determined
- The NBA held its 2025 Draft Lottery on the evening of Monday, May 12, in Chicago to determine the order for the upcoming draft.
- The lottery system, designed to discourage tanking, assigned 14 numbered ping-pong balls into combinations representing 13 teams based on their 2024-25 records.
- The Atlanta Hawks were involved in drama surrounding their first-round picks, likely securing the 13th pick with a 92.9% chance and holding a guaranteed 22nd pick.
- Top odds for the first pick were shared equally by the Utah Jazz, Washington Wizards, and Charlotte Hornets, each with a 14% chance, while Cooper Flagg was widely expected as the first overall choice.
- The Hawks face decisions about possibly trading picks to improve short-term competitiveness but also hold potential to develop rookies for future growth based on draft outcomes.
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Maine's Cooper Flagg finds out tonight who will get the chance to pick him No. 1
Sometime around 6 p.m. Monday, locked inside a secure room with no way of communicating with the outside world, team executives and others will watch 14 ping-pong balls start to bounce inside a machine. The balls will be numbered, 1 through 14. One will be drawn, then a second, then a third, then a fourth. And with that, the people inside that room will find out, an hour or so before the rest of the world, which team won the No. 1 pick next mont…
Full 2025 NBA Draft Order
Now that the NBA’s draft lottery results are in, the full 2025 draft order has been set. We’ll likely see some of these picks change hands on June 25 or 26, or in the days leading up to the draft — we’ll be sure to update the list below if and when picks are traded. Here’s the full 2025 NBA draft order: First round Dallas Mavericks San Antonio Spurs Philadelphia 76ers Charlotte Hornets Utah Jazz Washington Wizards New Orleans Pelicans Brooklyn …
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