Cooper Flagg goes No. 1 general to the Nets. Dylan Harper is chosen No. 2 by the Wizards. Bleacher Report’s Jonathan Wasserman has launched his newest 2025 mock draft within the aftermath of main AAU tournaments, NBA camps, FIBA competitors and the Paris Olympics.
It is going to be tough for any prospect to recreate the excitement that enveloped Victor Wembanyama in 2023. Nevertheless, there’s little question Flagg is the goal proper now for all rebuilding groups, in response to Wasserman.
Rounding out the highest 5 are Ace Bailey (Path Blazers), VJ Edgecombe (Pistons) and Drake Powell (Jazz).
Wasserman used FanDuel’s newest projected win totals to find out a draft order.
We’ve extra from across the basketball world:
- The NBA will unveil the schedule for the second annual in-season event on Tuesday afternoon by way of NBA In the present day on ESPN, the community’s PR division tweets. Formally referred to as the Emirates NBA Cup, the six teams for the early rounds of the event have been revealed final month.
- NBA gamers had 5.25% of their salaries taken out of their paychecks for escrow funds for the 2023/24 season after the league completed its annual monetary audit, Mike Vorkunov of The Athletic experiences. The escrow program was established in 2011 to make sure that gamers don’t obtain greater than their contractual settlement with the staff. The NBA usually takes out 10% of participant’s salaries all through the season to place into escrow to permit for the likelihood that mixture salaries outpace the gamers’ share of BRI, Vorkunov explains. It then returns cash to gamers if its audit exhibits it had withheld an excessive amount of.
- NBA formally struck rights offers with ESPN, Amazon and NBC that may present the league with $77 billion over 11 years, starting in 2025/26. The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand particulars how these agreements took place and the way they’ll influence the league.
