2025 NBA MOCK Draft 1.0: Cooper Flagg gives Mavericks a new superstar, Dylan Harper goes to Spurs

Yes, the Draft Lottery of the NBA of 2025 was really as it did. It was not a dream of fever.

The Mavericks, Spurs and 76ers will make the first three options of the project, which is not a result that no one expected at the beginning of last season.

In a talented class headed by Duke Forward Coope FlaggThe only thing that feels safe now is that Dallas will have a new generational superstar to build it. However, with Giannis antekounmpo Potentially available to a trade, and the way to a championship feels better than ever, many lottery options could be in motion in June.

Kurt Helin by NBC Sports, Raphoworld’s Rapielle Johnson and myself met to make fun of the first 14 project elections now that the order is clear. We will make more teasing drafts at the helm until the NBA project of 2025 on June 25.

1. Dallas Mavericks: Cooper Flagg, F, Duke

This is the obvious choice. Dallas somehow had a generational perspective a few months after negotiating one. Flagg adapts to the motto of GMO Nico Harrison’s “Defense Championships” and should have an impact from day one on a team that will have aspirations from the championship next season. Flagg will provide game creation while Kyrie Irving becomes healthy while forming a formidable defensive front on the side Anthony Davis, Dereck Lively, and PJ Washington. – Rubin

2. San Antonio Spurs: Dylan Harper, G, Rutgers

As we often hear in drafts, this is where the project begins. The Spurs contain two lottery options (No. 14). Do they keep them or are considered an opportunity to add another star to the equation? With Of Aaron Fox In the fold, adding another guard point to the mixture may not seem like the best approach. However, Harper is the best available player on the board, and his combination of size and ability is too attractive to pass here. – Johnson

3. Philadelphia 76ers: VJ Edgecombe, G, Baylor

If Daryl Morey keeps this selection, you have to think about the long -term game Tyrese Maxay and Jared McCainand I think Edgecomb works better than the riskiest game of Ace Bailey. Edgecombe can play or off the ball, defend well and provide the 76ers a three -guard rotation that will be the nucleus of this team in a post Joel Embiid/Paul George It was. – get

4. Charlotte Hornets: Kon Knueppel, F, Duke

Knueppel can provide several things for a team of Hornets who are still trying to find out things. Can go as a first day next to Lamelo ball, Brandon Miller, Thousands bridges and Mark Williams. Knueppel is known for its shoot, which will open the violation for the aforementioned incoming. It can be a secondary creator when necessary and will compete in the defensive end. It also does not need the ball in your hands to contribute. With a little injury, Charlotte could return to the post -season. – Rubin

5. Utah Jazz: Ace Bailey, F, Rutgers

I was a little surprised to see Bailey available on this site. Although their measures in the combination of the NBA occurred a bit important, with the striker more than two inches shorter than their list in Rutgers, the games are not played barefoot. Even with Utah’s selection Cody Williams in last year’s draft and also have Brice sensabaugh In the rotation of the wings, neither of them has done enough to deter adding another competitor to the mixture. If Athletic Bailey is available at five, jazz will have difficulty passing. – Johnson

Bailey’s best moments in Rutgers 2024-25 season

Currently, it was screened as a 2025 NBA Draft selection, look back at the Ace Bailey’s biggest plays of the 2024-25 season by Rutgers Scarlet Knights, where he starred in the future NBA selection project Dylan Harper.

6. Wizards Washington: Jeremiah Fears, G, Oklahoma

Washington needs help everywhere and with all respect Bub CarringtonIncludes timely guard. Fears is a gaming upside down. There are explorers who love him and think they are the top five of this draft, others are not sold, but Washington should make great swings at this time in his classification creation process. – get

7. New Orleans Pelicans: Derik Queen, C, Maryland

The Pelicans drafted Yves missi In the first round of last season, but they still have questions in the center, specifically with Missi’s Fit next to Zion Williamsonwhich represented the team on the project lottery. If this is their way of saying they are committed to Zion as a franchise player, they need a center that best suits him. Insert Queen, who is a strong reproduction player for a center and can spat the ground enough to open things for Williamson. There may be questions about this defensive front, but Herb jones and Trey Murphy It will help to make up for it. In addition, the big man of collection and rolls will be very fun. – Rubin

8. Brooklyn Nets: Tre Johnson, G, Texas

Johnson is one of the best pure scorers in this class, as he can put points from anywhere on the court. With the networks offered by four elections in the first round and a lot of caps, it is fair to ask if the main executive Sean Marks will try to use it as an opportunity to quickly track the team’s reconstruction. If not, Johnson can be a solid construction block for networks regardless of what happens Cam Thomas in free agency. – Johnson

Carter will be in the studio one or more nights a week through the playoffs when the NBA returns to NBC and debuts in Peacock in October.

9. Toronto raptors: Collin Murray-Boyles, F, South Carolina

This is just a natural adjustment. The raptors have been in love with playing many interchangeable, commutable and Murrayles wings slide towards this deep rotation in Toronto. – get

10. Rockets Huton: Khaman Maluach, C, Duke

Alperen Sengun It is obviously the initial center of Houston, but that does not mean that he is an impeccable player. Having Maluach on the bench provides rockets with a good rhythm with a defender who shot 71.2 percent of the floor for Duke last season. Houston succeeded with the alignments of two dogs with Sengun and Steven AdamsAnd, although Maluach is not the passing that is Adams, it is an intriguing alignment. In addition, have a shot block like Maluach behind a perimeter defense Amen Thompson, Tari eason and Jabari Smith Jr. It is attractive. – Rubin

11. Portland Trail Blazers: Kaspar Jakucionis, G, Illinois

The game of Trail Blazers after the All-Star pause caused optimism, and rightly so. However, they still have a logjam to clean up on the front track, and they remain small in the guard positions Anfernee Simons and Scoot henderson. Jackucionis’s ability to play or out of the ball would be a good adaptation, even there are concerns about the good that can separate the rebound. – Johnson

12. Chicago Bulls: Carter Bryant, F, Arizona

Chicago needs the defense, especially the defense of the wings, and this is where Bryant comes in. If Chicago is everything Josh Giddey and Coby White Backcourt, Bryant provides a transitional finisher and a necessary defense. – get

13. Atlanta Hawks: Thomas Sorber, C, Georgetown

Atlanta has tried to surround Tree Young With a ton of length, and this is something that Sorber can provide. Measured with a wingspan of 7 feet-6 and a scope of 9 feet-1 in the combination. Sorber showed the mid -range shooting touch to college and was a solid pass to the center’s place. A package It is a small center and, although Sorber is not so high, it offers it with length and strength. It will fit well into the offense of what Snyder and should hit a day on defense. Of course this could be a more divided minute for Okongwu, who spent the last seasons ago Clint capela. This time Okongwu will be at least the headline. – Rubin

14. A Peopleriserles, Gort, Gre ,, Bad You

With the Spurs already selecting Harper in this draft drill, we probably not be the best adjustment. But the versatile forward Carter Bryant was out of the board, so that the 6-foot-9 demolition is the choice. It is not very shooting and the defense needs some work, but the Russian guard’s ability to read in the game of two men make it one of the most intriguing perspectives on the Class of Draft. Unless the Spurs used the second general selection to go to “big game hunt”, it would be alert to this selection potentially transferred in favor of adding a more established option next to Wembanyama, Fox and Castle. – Johnson

Other possible lottery options:

– Asa Newell, F, Georgia

– Jase Richardson, G, Michigan State

– Noa Essengue, F, Ratiopharm Ulm (Germany)

– Danny Wolf, C, Michigan

– Nique Clifford, F, Colorado State