The 2025 NBA Draft is not short on storylines. Cooper Flagg and Dylan Harper provide the superstar upside at the top of the draft, the Sixers at No. 3 are the first wild card, Ace Bailey is telling everyone he doesn't want to play for them, the Brooklyn Nets have approximately 18 first-round picks and Oklahoma City is reportedly trying to trade up from No. 15. No one let them do it!
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2025 NBA Draft live results: Every pick from the first round of the draft
Pick | Team | Player |
|---|---|---|
1 | Dallas Mavericks | Cooper Flagg |
2 | San Antonio Spurs | Dylan Harper |
3 | Philadelphia 76ers | VJ Edgecombe |
4 | Charlotte Hornets | Kon Knueppel |
5 | Utah Jazz | Ace Bailey |
6 | Washington Wizards | Tre Johnson |
7 | New Orleans Pelicans | Jeremiah Fears |
8 | Brooklyn Nets | Egor Demin |
9 | Toronto Raptors | Colin Murray-Boyles |
10 | Phoenix Suns | Khaman Maluach |
11 | Memphis Grizzlies | Cedric Coward |
12 | Chicago Bulls | Noa Essengue |
13 | New Orleans Pelicans | Derik Queen |
14 | San Antonio Spurs | Carter Bryant |
15 | Oklahoma City Thunder | Thomas Sorber |
16 | Portland Trail Blazers | Yang Hansen |
17 | Minnesota Timberwolves | Joan Beringer |
18 | Utah Jazz | Walter Clayton Jr. |
19 | Brooklyn Nets | Nolan Traore |
20 | Miami Heat | Kasparas Jakucionis |
21 | Washington Wizards | Will Riley |
22 | Brooklyn Nets | Drake Powell |
23 | Atlanta Hawks | Asa Newell |
24 | Sacramento Kings | Nique Clifford |
25 | Orlando Magic | Jase Richardson |
26 | Brooklyn Nets | Ben Saraf |
27 | Brooklyn Nets | Danny Wolf |
28 | Boston Celtics | Hugo González |
29 | Charlotte Hornets | Liam McNeeley |
30 | Los Angeles Clippers | Yanic Konan Niederhauser |
Cooper Flagg will be the top pick to the Dallas Mavericks
There wasn't any suspense at the top of this one. Duke freshman forward Cooper Flagg was the top pick in this draft to the Dallas Mavericks, a team that did everything in its power to take itself out of NBA Finals contention, only to win the draft lottery and immediately replace one superstar with another potential superstar. Whatever.
Dylan Harper likely to go No. 2 to San Antonio
No one is holding their breath about the No. 2 pick, either. San Antonio is widely assumed to pick Rutgers guard Dylan Harper here, just a year after its rookie guard Stephon Castle won ROY. The fit isn't perfect, but it's still very clearly the right pick — Harper has star upside, too.
Philadelphia is a wild card at No. 3
Keep the pick and take VJ Edgecombe? Ignore Ace Bailey's seeming wishes to go elsewhere and take him anyway? Trade the pick for a veteran? Trade it for more picks?
Who knows! This is where the draft really starts. I think it's Edgecombe, who (like Harper) isn't a perfect fit, but again, the strategy is best player available always.
Brooklyn still has five first-round picks
We're getting awfully close to draft time, and the Brooklyn Nets still own five first-round picks in the draft. It doesn't make any sense to use them all, but it would be pretty funny! And there's value in that, right?