Rockets chances, top prospects, shipping stream

A year ago, the rockets from No. 9 jumped up in front of the lottery slot to land a top four draft pick (Reed Sheppard). Can you defy the chances again on Monday evening?

In one of the most important data in the calendar outside of the season, the NBA keeps the league in Chicago on Monday evening on Monday evening. The event concludes the order of the first round for the draft of 2025, which will take place on June 25th (first round) and June 26 (second round).

Some lottery selection have already been traded elsewhere (or perhaps to a limited extent, depending on the final design slit). In the meantime, others could be traded before the draft day at the end of June. However, the weighted lottery is carried out on the basis of the records of the previous season of every non-playoff team, which originally included the selection of 2025.

The lottery only determines the first four selections. The No. 5 selection is among the remaining teams in the order of the season record (2024-25), the worst comes first. Tiebreaker have already been carried out. While the weighted lottery prefers the teams with the worst records, the chances are not nearly so stacked in favor of bad teams as before – since the NBA wants to minimize potential incentives for teams to lose.

The Rockets had the fourth best record of the NBA this season with 52 to 30, but they still have a lottery selection from 2025 due to an earlier trade in which the Brooklyn Nets and the design of equity from the Phoenix Sun ended (the last season ended with 36-46 and intervened with the No. 9 slot).

In 2024, Houston held the identical no. 9 slot with a selection from the nets before opposing the chances of selecting one of these four lottery. The rockets finally stayed in third place and designed Kentucky Guard Reed Sheppard.

When and how to watch

Date: Monday, May 12th
Time: 18 pm CDT
TV channel: ESPN
Live stream: FUBO TV (free trial version) or watch ESPN with an active subscription

How the design of the lottery works

For each of the four lottery picks, starting with No. 1, an NBA employee pulls out four ping pong balls from one funnel. Every ball has a number. There are 1,001 potential combinations, and the team with the right four -digit combination deserves every choice.

The weighted lottery gives teams with worse plates more combinations, and a team cannot win twice. So if a franchise that hypothetically received the No. 1 selection was drawn again for No. 2, this result would be ignored and another drawing was held for this choice. You can find more details about the process at NBA.com.

The Rockets have two designed lottery representatives at the McCormick Place from Chicago. You will be physically in the private lottery room, where the drawing itself occurs about an hour before the television show. The other representative will be on stage together with the spectators and wait for the unveiling. In 2024, Sam Strantz (Associate General Counsel) was in the room itself, while Ime Udoka (head coach) was on stage.

From Sunday evening, the representatives had to be announced for each team in 2025.

The chances in the first round for rockets (via Phoenix)

No. 1: 3.8%
No. 2: 4.1%
No. 3: 4.5%
No. 4: 4.9%

Cumulative top 4 chances: 17.3%

No. 9: 50.7%
No. 10: 28.3%
No. 11: 3.5%
No. 12: 0.1%

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The team's probabilities

Pre-lottery quota matrix for 2025 NBA draft

May 2025 Mock designs, top prospects

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