2025 NBA draft lottery: Dallas Mavericks win first pick, chance to take Cooper Flagg

Dallas Mavericks win the NBA Draft lottery for chance to select Duke star Cooper Flagg

The Dallas Mavericks won the NBA Draft lottery Monday night, giving them the No. 1 pick in June’s draft and the chance to take Duke Blue Devils forward Cooper Flagg.

The Mavericks entered the lottery with only a 1.8% chance of winning the first pick — the fourth-lowest odds for a lottery winner in NBA history.

The San Antonio Spurs will pick second, while the rest of the top five (in order) will be the Philadelphia 76ers, Charlotte Hornets and Utah Jazz.

The Jazz and Washington Wizards both entered with a 14% chance to win the top pick, but instead fell out of the top four. The Wizards will select sixth, while the New Orleans Pelicans — who had the second-best chance with 12.5% odds for the first pick — slid to seventh.

Dallas missed the playoffs this season after controversially trading franchise cornerstone Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers in February. The Mavericks will now have an opportunity to add Flagg to a core that includes two former No. 1 picks in Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving, though Irving will be recovering from a torn ACL he suffered in March.