Thirty gamers will hear their names known as and have their lifelong desires realized throughout the first spherical of the 2025 NBA Draft on Wednesday on the Barclays Heart in New York.
Comply with alongside to search out out the place Cooper Flagg, Dylan Harper and different high prospects land, together with how every participant will match the crew that selects 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 arms with NBA commissioner Adam Silver (L) after being drafted first general by the Dallas Mavericks throughout the first spherical of the 2025 NBA Draft at Barclays Heart on June 25, 2025 within the Brooklyn borough of New York Metropolis. (Picture 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 might guard gamers in any respect positions. Offensively, he is certainly one of, if not the very best, passers within the 2025 NBA Draft class and has displayed a capability to create his personal leap 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 may make that three in a row. Harper is the right 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 related sport to him, in De’Aaron Fox, a fellow left-handed dynamic guard. That pairing can be attention-grabbing as Fox and Harper function in related elements of the courtroom, however Fox ought to supply an excellent 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 reminiscent of Anthony Edwards and Dwayne Wade. As for his match with Philadelphia, Edgecombe will present an instantaneous pressure on the defensive facet and alleviate stress off Tyrese Maxey on that facet of the courtroom. Offensively, he can play off Maxey and Joel Embiid, attacking shut outs, and creating offense together with his instincts and fast decision-making. It will likely be attention-grabbing to see the path 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 effectively as a result of he does 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 might be the crew’s secondary scorer behind Miller. That being stated, there are extra gifted gamers than Kneuppel that can be chosen after him, and the Hornets may very well be left regretting this decide.
5. Utah Jazz: Airious “Ace” Bailey, Ahead, Rutgers
Ace Bailey (R) shakes arms with NBA commissioner Adam Silver (L) after being drafted fifth general by the Utah Jazz throughout the first spherical of the 2025 NBA Draft at Barclays Heart on June 25, 2025 within the Brooklyn borough of New York Metropolis. (Picture 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 crew previous to Wednesday’s draft. The Jazz are betting that is not a crimson flag. In the event that they’re proper, Bailey may very well 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 very best general shooter within the NBA Draft. He takes and makes the deepest eating regimen of NBA-level photographs reminiscent of step-back and pull-up leap photographs. From the second he steps into the league, he’ll be capable of 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 smart 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 may very well be the engine for an NBA offense. He is an enormous 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 longer term is an effective approach 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 outdoors shot and talent to assault close-outs if he needs 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, Heart, Duke
The Suns’ entrance workplace may need achieved one thing proper. Maluach is the very best 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 can be a fantastic pick-and-roll companion for Devin Booker.
11. Memphis Grizzlies (through Portland): Cedric Coward, Ahead, Washington State
Coward has flown up draft boards throughout 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 measurement 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 can be maximized taking part in with Morant who generates as many open photographs as any NBA playmaker.
12. Chicago Bulls: Noa Essengue, Heart, France
There are lots of unknowns with Essengue, a French prospect who performed professionally in Germany. He is athletic and makes use of that capacity to dominate the boards and fly up and down the courtroom. 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 may have used a extra gifted on-ball asset. Chicago does, nonetheless, are likely to play quick, so if Essengue can run the ground and end off the velocity of guards Josh Giddey and Coby White, he may very well be a good 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 may match effectively subsequent to him. The Pelicans’ younger core now contains Fears, Queen, Murphy, Missi and Jordan Poole, who they traded for on Monday, so there’s an opportunity this decide may 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 selection because the Arizona prospect will present an instantaneous defensive presence on the wing for a crew 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, Heart, Georgetown
16. Portland Path Blazers (from Orlando): Yang Hansen, Heart, China
17. Minnesota Timberwolves (from Detroit): Joan Beringer, Heart, 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)
28. Boston Celtics
29. Phoenix Suns (from Cleveland)
30. L.A. Clippers (from Oklahoma Metropolis)
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