NBA Draft 2025: because the Knicks are the reason why there are only 29 choices in the second round
The 2025 NBA Draft begins on Wednesday and Dallas Mavericks should go with the Duke Cooper Flagg star as the best choice. Flagg – the best consent player in the draft – will undoubtedly be the first of the 59 players selected during the event.
If something above it seems to you, you’re right. There are two rounds in the draft of the NBA and 30 different NBA teams. This should involve that 60 names are called during the 2025 NBA draft, right?
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No. There are only 59 choices in the NBA draft of 2025. While the first round of the event will contain the usual 30 choices, the second round will present only 29. Why is it so? And which team no longer has his choice of the second round? Yahoo Sports explains below.
2025 NBA Draft: why are there 29 choices in the second round?
The New York Knicks are responsible for choosing the missing draft. The team had his choice of the second round taken away as punishment to tamper Jalen Brunton in front of his free agency in 2022.
After spending the first four years of his career with the Dallas Maverks, Brunson hit the free agency after the NBA season of 2021-22. He immediately signed with the Knicks, without even giving the Maverks the opportunity to make an offer.
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There were a handful of suspicious circumstances on the signing of Brunson. While the guard would have met a number of teams in front of the free agency, he only met the Knicks. The team then started downloading money in anticipation of Brunton’s signature. In addition, Brunson’s father, Rick, is an assistant coach with the Knicks. At the time, the general manager of the team was Leon Rose, who negotiated Brunson’s Rookie contract with the Maverks.
The voices on the interest of the Knicks for Brunson reached a point where its exact offer was leaked days before the free agency.
All these factors led to the NBA to launch a tampered investigation. Almost five months later, the League took its sentence. After determining the Knicks “violated the rules of the League that regulate the times of the discussions of the free agency of this season”, the NBA took away the choice of the second round of the team in the draft of the NBA of 2025.
While the Knicks have not yet paid for that choice, it is difficult to imagine that losing choice n. 56 will exceed the advantage of having Brunson. Since he joined the Knicks, Brunson has brought his game to another level. It has an average of 26.4 points and 6.7 assists with New York.
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That performance contributed to leading the Knicks to three consecutive playoff appearances. After reaching the semifinals of the Eastern Conference during the first two years of Brunson with the team, the Knicks arrived at the Eastern Conference finals last season. The team has lost in six games against Indiana Pacers.
After losing the choice of the second round, the Knicks will be without a selection in the NBA draft of 2025. The team exchanged his choice of the first round of 2025 with the Brooklyn networks in 2024 in an agreement for Mikal Bridges and Keita Bates-Diop.