Thirty gamers heard their names known as and had their lifelong desires realized through the first spherical of the 2025 NBA Draft on Wednesday on the Barclays Middle in New York.
The Dallas Mavericks chosen Cooper Flagg with the first-overall decide. The San Antonio Spurs took Dylan Harper with the No. 2 decide. See the place the opposite high prospects landed, together with how every lottery decide will match the workforce that chosen them:
Listed below are all 30 picks within the first-round of the 2025 NBA Draft:
1. Dallas Mavericks: Cooper Flagg, Ahead, Duke
Cooper Flagg (R) shakes fingers with NBA commissioner Adam Silver (L) after being drafted first general by the Dallas Mavericks through the first spherical of the 2025 NBA Draft at Barclays Middle on June 25, 2025 within the Brooklyn borough of New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Sarah Stier/Getty Photographs)
Flagg will slot in seamlessly with the Mavericks’ lineup and roster-building philosophy. When Dallas traded Luka Doncic, president of basketball operations and basic supervisor, Nico Harrison, cited protection as the inspiration for his or her future. Flagg brings that and rather more. He is versatile, clever on the help-side and in pick-and-roll protection, and may guard gamers in any respect positions. Offensively, he is one in every of, if not the most effective, passers within the 2025 NBA Draft class and has displayed a capability to create his personal soar shot, and scoring alternatives for his teammates.
2. San Antonio Spurs: Dylan Harper, Guard, Rutgers
The Spurs have had the Rookie of the 12 months the final two seasons and have simply drafted somebody who might make that three in a row. Harper is the proper participant for the Spurs so as to add to their younger core. He’ll complement Victor Wembanyama as a fringe scorer and maximize his offensive ceiling as a playmaker. He’ll play alongside a backcourt mate that has a really comparable sport to him, in De’Aaron Fox, a fellow left-handed dynamic guard. That pairing will probably be fascinating as Fox and Harper function in comparable elements of the court docket, however Fox ought to supply a great instance for the younger Harper.
3. Philadelphia 76ers: VJ Edgecombe, Guard, Baylor
Edgecombe’s ceiling is as excessive as any prospect on this draft as he has a comparable construct and aggressive drive to that of dynamic NBA guards of previous and current corresponding to Anthony Edwards and Dwayne Wade. As for his match with Philadelphia, Edgecombe will present a direct pressure on the defensive facet and alleviate strain off Tyrese Maxey on that facet of the court docket. Offensively, he can play off Maxey and Joel Embiid, attacking shut outs, and creating offense along with his instincts and fast decision-making. It is going to be fascinating to see the route the 76ers take now that they’ve Edgecombe. Do they lean into their younger backcourt, or use these items to encompass their veterans and push for quick success?
4. Charlotte Hornets: Kon Kneuppel, Guard, Duke
Knueppel may need the best IQ of any participant within the 2025 NBA Draft class. He’s additionally one of many high perimeter shooters. From that standpoint, he ought to slot in properly as a result of he would not want the ball to be efficient and LaMelo Ball and Brandon Miller will command extra touches than Knueppel. Ball can set him up for 3-point photographs, and he may be the workforce’s secondary scorer behind Miller. That being mentioned, there are extra proficient gamers than Kneuppel that will probably be chosen after him, and the Hornets might be left regretting this decide.
5. Utah Jazz: Airious “Ace” Bailey, Ahead, Rutgers
Ace Bailey (R) shakes fingers with NBA commissioner Adam Silver (L) after being drafted fifth general by the Utah Jazz through the first spherical of the 2025 NBA Draft at Barclays Middle on June 25, 2025 within the Brooklyn borough of New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Sarah Stier/Getty Photographs).
Bailey is the best enigma within the 2025 NBA Draft class. He’s the one American prospect to not have a single exercise with an NBA workforce previous to Wednesday’s draft. The Jazz are betting that is not a pink flag. In the event that they’re proper, Bailey might be the cornerstone of their future. He is a 6-foot-8 wing with the fluid deal with of a guard. Not solely is he among the best shot creators within the draft, however he is proven chops as a help-defender and rim protector.
6. Washington Wizards: Tre Johnson, Guard, Texas
Johnson is arguably the most effective general shooter within the NBA Draft. He takes and makes the deepest eating regimen of NBA-level photographs corresponding to step-back and pull-up soar photographs. From the second he steps into the league, he’ll be capable to rating. That is precisely what the Wizards want, as they’ve a trio of sturdy defensive prospects in Carlton Carrington, Kyshawn George and the second general decide within the 2024 NBA Draft, Alex Sarr.
7. New Orleans Pelicans: Jeremiah Fears, Guard, Oklahoma
Fears has one of many tightest handles of any prospect within the 2025 NBA Draft class. Not many defenders can keep in entrance of him, which is important as a result of his 3-point shot wants some work. Nonetheless, the slot in New Orleans is sensible as they traded their level guard CJ McCollum on Monday and had a gap at that place. Now, they add a high-ceiling prospect that matches the timeline of their younger core, together with Zion Williamson and Trey Murphy.
8. Brooklyn Nets: Egor Demin, Guard, Brigham Younger
A artistic playmaker and passer, Demin might be the engine for an NBA offense. He is a giant guard who performs at his personal tempo and makes everybody round him higher. He nonetheless wants to enhance his particular person scoring, however confirmed that he was engaged on that all through the pre-draft course of. The Nets desparately want a reset to their core, so getting their ball-handler of the long run is an efficient method to begin.
9. Toronto Raptors: Collin Murray-Boyles, Ahead, South Carolina
Murray-Boyles is the quintessential Raptors’ participant — a prolonged and versatile wing with a great deal of untapped expertise. Protection will come simply to Murray-Boyles, however he’ll want to enhance his exterior shot and skill to assault close-outs if he desires to reach Toronto as a result of the Raptors have dominant ball-handlers who aren’t dynamic perimeter shooters themselves in Scottie Barnes and Brandon Ingram.
10. Phoenix Suns: Khaman Maluach, Middle, Duke
The Suns’ entrance workplace may need achieved one thing proper. Maluach is the most effective rim-protector within the 2025 NBA Draft class and has displayed spectacular contact for a 7-footer. He was key to Duke’s Last 4 run and can now be essential to the Suns’ retooling. He will probably be an ideal pick-and-roll associate for Devin Booker.
11. Memphis Grizzlies (through Portland): Cedric Coward, Ahead, Washington State
Coward has flown up draft boards through the pre-draft course of. He performed simply six video games at Washington State final season, however displayed a capability to attain in any respect three ranges. That small pattern dimension makes him an ambiguous prospect, however he’ll present Memphis with a flexible two-way wing, which is a place of want for them, alongside Ja Morant and Jaren Jackson Jr. Coward’s energy as an off-ball shooter will probably be maximized enjoying with Morant who generates as many open photographs as any NBA playmaker.
12. Chicago Bulls: Noa Essengue, Middle, France
There are a variety of unknowns with Essengue, a French prospect who performed professionally in Germany. He is athletic and makes use of that means to dominate the boards and fly up and down the court docket. However, it is unclear how his offensive sport will translate to the NBA, and it is much more confounding how he’ll slot in with the Bulls, who might have used a extra proficient on-ball asset. Chicago does, nonetheless, are inclined to play quick, so if Essengue can run the ground and end off the pace of guards Josh Giddey and Coby White, he might be an honest piece for his or her future.
13. New Orleans Pelicans (from Sacramento): Derik Queen, Ahead, Maryland
Queen joins Fears because the Pelicans’ second lottery decide within the 2025 NBA Draft. He is a big-man with the imaginative and prescient, deal with, and shot-diet of a guard. The Pelicans chosen Yves Missi, a dynamic rim protector, within the 2024 NBA Draft, and Queen’s perimeter-based sport might match properly subsequent to him. The Pelicans’ younger core now consists of Fears, Queen, Murphy, Missi and Jordan Poole, who they traded for on Monday, so there’s an opportunity this decide might spell the top of the Zion Williamson period.
14. San Antonio Spurs (from Atlanta): Carter Bryant, Ahead, Arizona
Bryant, a two-way wing, rounds out the lottery and is the second decide within the 2025 NBA Draft for the Spurs. It is an ideal alternative because the Arizona prospect will present a direct defensive presence on the wing for a workforce ripe for a playoff leap. His offensive sport has a methods to go, however he will not be requested to do an excessive amount of on that facet of the ball because the Spurs can depend on Wembanyama, Fox, Devin Vassell and the second-overall decide, Harper, for that.
15. Oklahoma City Thunder (from Miami): Thomas Sorber, Middle, Georgetown
16. Portland Path Blazers (from Orlando): Yang Hansen, Middle, China
17. Minnesota Timberwolves (from Detroit): Joan Beringer, Middle, France
18. Utah Jazz (from Memphis): Walter Clayton Jr., Guard, Florida
19. Brooklyn Nets (from Milwaukee): Nolan Traore, Guard, France
20. Miami Heat (from Golden State): Kasparas Jakucionis, Guard, Illinois
21. Washington Wizards (from Minnesota): Will Riley, Guard, Illinois
22. Brooklyn Nets (from the L.A. Lakers): Drake Powell, Guard, North Carolina
23. Atlanta Hawks (from Indiana): Asa Newell, Ahead, Georgia
24. Sacramento Kings (from the L.A. Clippers): Nique Clifford, Guard, Colorado State
25. Orlando Magic (from Denver): Jase Richardson, Guard, Michigan State
26. Brooklyn Nets (from New York): Ben Saraf, Guard, Israel
27. Brooklyn Nets (from Houston): Danny Wolf, Ahead, Michigan
28. Boston Celtics: Hugo Gonzalez, Guard, Spain
29. Phoenix Suns (from Cleveland): Liam McNeeley, Ahead, UCONN
30. L.A. Clippers (from Oklahoma Metropolis) Yanic Konan Niederhauser, Middle, Penn State
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