Winners and losers of the draft of the NBA: Mavs’ shot in Redemption and The Strange such of Ace Bailey
Cooper Flag and Nico Harrison
The greatest winners of the 2025 NBA Draft are Cooper Flagg and Dallas Nico Harrison’s general manager. In addition to the prestige and financial premiums of being the best choice, Flagg won the night because he avoided going to a reconstruction team, where they could have been employed years to acquire playoff experience.
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By landing with the Maverick, Flagg joins the veterans of All-Nba Anthony Davis, Kyrie Irving and Klay Thompson, whose tutoring should make his learning curve less insidious. Instead of enduring the tribulations to lead a feeding team on the bottom, Flagg will play a key role in helping the Mavs to contend for a title in his Rookie season even if in a crowded western conference that includes champion Oklahoma City Thunder, Nikić’s Nikić Nuka. Expect that Flagg adapts directly as a wing that can play multiple positions and contribute defensively.
In turn, Harrison’s history of redemption begins with the selection of flags. After months of an intense repercussions to exchange a generational talent to Dončić, Harrison has an unexpected opportunity to rewrite his legacy if Flagg reaches his full potential.
San Antonio Spurs
The selection of Dylan Harper at n. 2 is added to the explosive back of the Spurs which already presents De’Aron Fox and Rookie of the Year Stephon Castle. Harper’s ability to exercise pressure on defenses with its speed and aggression will lead to a more open aspect and individual opportunities for Victor Wembanyama, already a superstar at the age of 21. They also selected Carter Bryant at n. 14, a defensive guard/small striker with a coherent three -point blow.
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But if the Spurs are contemplating more ambitious moves, they are in a privileged position to exchange some of their young goods with an all-nba player like Giannis Antetokounmpo-this is if the commercial interviews increase in the coming months.
Any direction choose, the Spurs took a step forward on the Draft night and are closer to take a playoff jump in the Western Conference.
Atlanta Hawks
The Hawks have made several expert moves this week by acquiring Kristaps Porzingis in an exchange for three teams. On the night of the project, the Hawks were active by sending choice n. 13 in New Orleans for choice n. 23
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With the Western Conference, which should be even more rigorous next season, the Pellicans will find difficulties in guaranteeing a higher place. The impressive coup d’état gives Hawks an elite resource considering the long -awaited draft class of next year. With choice n. 23, the Hawks grabbed Asa Newell, a prospect of the late Latestry that unexpectedly fell into his hometown team.
In a conference that lacks a dominant team due to the wounds of Achille by Jayson Tatum and Tyrese Haliburton, the Hawks used the draft draft to reorganize while each Eastern Conference franchise tries to take advantage of the window of opportunities.
Loser
Ace Bailey
In the weeks that led to the draft this year, Bailey has developed a masterclass on how to land in the “loser” category. Whether his choices came from bad advice from his repetitions or the misleading audacity of youth, Bailey’s immense talent was obscured due to poor decisions that led to the negative press.
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The third best perspective in the draft decided not to work for the teams and snubbed the Philadelphia 76ers who owned the choice n. 3. Falling outside the first three costs Bailey $ 10 million and the opportunity to learn from Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey and Paul George.
Eded by Utah Jazz even after refusing a training and an interview, Bailey lands in a team that has closed with the worst record of the League and will be in reconstruction mode for the near future. Bailey has quite talent to bounce from his drafts, but unfortunately he has already found a way to make beginner errors.
Brooklyn Reti
Brooklyn’s networks entered this year’s draft with a record of five choices in the first round and continued to end the night in infamy. Their first accident came with the selection of Egor Demin with choice n. 8. It has been expected that Dein fell in the middle of the round, so the nets seem to have passed by selecting Demin and broadcasting players with higher ceilings such as Khaman Maluach and Collin Murray-Boyles.
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But the most evident PAS of the networks was the act of maintaining all their choices. Brooklyn has filed the opportunity to exchange a more talented perspective or use the choices to acquire a born star to be built.
It is possible that every draft pick is useful and demin can create an all-rookie team. But overall, the nets made a story by selecting five players in the first round, not being able to change the trajectory of their franchise.
New York Knicks
For Knicks fans, the draft should be known as “five choices in the first round for the Mikal Bridges Awareness Day”. Without a coach or a choice of the first round, the Knicks remained inactive on the first day.
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After a lively race to the Eastern Conference finals, the Knicks have the opportunity to take control of the East by adding some key players who could put them on the hump. But in a week in which more teams have been exchanged for choices or other resources, the Knicks decision to remain on the sidelines is not a promising sign while the low season takes place.
The Knicks, who have given up their choice of the second round to tamper with the signature of Jalen Brunson, will have to wait until the 50th choice (through Memphis) to make a selection. Knicks fans can only hope for more aggressive moves on the second day of the draft.