This NBA Mock Draft was published before Monday night's lottery, which the Dallas Mavericks won to claim the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes. To read the mock draft published immediately after that result, click here.

Cooper Flagg and Ace Bailey were among the top projected picks in the latest 2025 NBA mock draft from ESPN's Jonathan Givony and Jeremy Woo. After the Dallas Mavericks won Monday's draft lottery, the team was expected to add Flagg at No.

The Los Angeles Lakers are in desperate need of a center this offseason, and they're getting one in Bleacher Report's latest mock draft for 2025. The Lakers will only have the 55th pick in the 2025 NBA Draft,

NIL is keeping more college stars on campus, so second-round picks may lose value. And there's a high riser at No. 3.

With the 2024-25 season winding down, teams around the NBA are hyper-focused on the upcoming draft class that features some potential franchise-changing prospects. The NBA announced on Tuesday that 106 players filed as early entry candidates, down from 195 ...

Long-suffering fans of the Jazz, Hornets, Pelicans and Wizards had to watch the coveted Flagg pick go to a team that literally just played in the 2024 NBA Finals. That's just tough, and the "rigged" conspiracy theories are understandable. When will these teams catch a break? Those Flagg dreams went up in smoke so fast.

The NBA draft lottery once again produced straight-up drama and intrigue this week, with the Dallas Mavericks defying astronomical odds to land the No. 1 overall pick. That got us thinking about the NFL’s draft system that simply rewards the league’s worst teams without any wrinkles.