Mavs, Cooper Flagg strike gold. Wizard strikes.

Cooper Flagg, welcome to the Dallas Mavericks.

The Mavericks won the NBA Draft Lottery with just one chance of 1.8%against the chances on Monday, number 1 in the draft of 2025.

Of course, Dallas was always able to exchange No. 1 selection, but it is rare for a team to keep this deal. The chances are good that Flag ends with the Mavericks who had a turbulent season with the controversial trade from Luka Doncic from Dallas to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis in early February.

While Dallas was clearly a big winner, it is a deep design class, and several teams have the chance to improve their roster – not only in the lottery, but later in the first round.

The NBA design is June 25th to 26th.

Here are the winners and losers of the NBA Draft Lottery 2025:

2025 NBA Draft Lottery winner

Dallas Mavericks

The Mavericks have been attacked by fans and NBA media since they acted Doncic. They made the game, but could not reach the playoffs, but in an unexpected round they won number 1 and the opportunity to choose Flagg, the Duke star, who was the national player of the year as a newcomer in 2024-25. Dallas is just a season that was reached by the NBA final, and when it is healthy, it has a strong squad with Davis, Kyrie Irving, Klay Thompson, PJ Washington, Daniel Gafford and Dereck Lively.

Now the Mavericks Flag can add, the player who is not only considered a top prospective, but also as a talent that can help a team immediately.

Mavs President of Basketball Operations and General Manager Nico Harrison, the guy who exchanged Doncic, can distance himself from the role of the villain.

Cooper Flag

When Flagg goes to Dallas, he goes to a team that tries to win now instead of a team that is immersed in an extensive renovation. There will be no immense pressure for him to pull a franchise out of a defeat, and he can grow in a team with championship struts.

Flagg is also set for a large payment day. He already has partnerships with New Balance and Gatorade, and his NBA Rookie Scale contract will be a four-year contract of $ 62 million.

San Antonio Spurs

With Victor Wembanyama and Stephon Castle-Dem Rookie of the Year winners in 2023-24 and 2024-25 changes from the eighth slot to number 2 in the lottery. They only had a chance of 12.3% to move to the top tw. The Spurs acquired De'aaron Fox at the end of the trade, who is currently replacing Mitch Johnson as head coach as head coach to replace Gregg Popovich. In the first round, the Spurs also have No. 14 selection.

Philadelphia 76ers

The Sixers had to achieve the no. 5 selection, but also stood the prospect of losing their lottery selection to Oklahoma City if the choice was outside the top six. Well, the Sixers have moved to third place and will also have options. With Joel Embbiid, Tyrese Maxey, Paul George and 2024-25 Rookie Jared McCain, the Sixers are still in Win-now mode.

2025 NBA Draft Lottery Loser

Washington Wizards

With Charlotte and Utah the best chances of winning (14%) to get No. 1 and a chance of 52.1% for a top four election, the wizards push themselves to No. 6, which was the worst possible result that they could achieve in the lottery of the design. In 6th place you still have the chance to design a high -quality player and to expand a young squad in which Alex Sarr, Bub Carrington, Bilal Coulibaly, Aj Johnson and Kyshawn George are included. But it's not number 1.

Utah jazz

The jazz had the worst record (17-65) and, like the wizards and Charlotte, they had a chance of 14%, the number 1 selection and an opportunity of 52.1% to receive a top-for-selection, but also a 47.1% chance to get the No. 5 selection. The chances, the and the chances of Taketh, and the jazz slipped on the fifth choice.

Tanking

From the draft of 2020, the NBA has flattened its lottery chances, so that the three teams with the worst record to maintain the same opportunities, No. 1 selection (14%), No. 2 (13.4%), No. 3 (12.7%) and No. 4 (12%), with the worst record chance with 25%of the chance to win the lottery with the worst record with the worst record Participation. This was done to discourage tanking what practice is to get the worst record of the league to get a high design.

One chance of 14%to get number 1 is still better than a chance of 1.8%, so there is still tanking. And bad teams improve through the design – just take a look at what Detroit and Houston did. But Utah, Washington and Charlotte won 17, 18 and 19 games and landed the fifth, sixth and fourth picks.

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