The Athletic has live coverage of the 2025 NBA draft lottery. Welcome to the doughnut draft. You can thank name, image and likeness. What do I mean by that? Well, we still have the same highly rated one-and-dones at the top of the draft board that we always have.

Every team's tier behind Flagg and Harper will include VJ Edgecombe. Front offices that value his 100th percentile explosiveness, shotmaking and defensive quickness could slot him at No. 3, particularly if they question Ace Bailey's handle and tunnel vision, Tre Johnson's lack of rim pressure and Jeremiah Fears' shooting.

It looks like Cooper Flagg will be a Dallas Maverick. That much we learned in a shocking revelation in Chicago on Monday night, where the Mavs — who had never won the lottery be