Basketball Intelligence For 5/13/25
Special Draft Lottery Edition
TEAM-SPECIFIC
ATL: Hawks get what they hoped for in the NBA Draft Lottery
Bradley Rowland, Fansided
DAL: Mavericks win 2025 NBA draft lottery
Brad Townsend, Morning News
DAL: Mavericks finally get lucky with No. 1 pick, assuming the GM doesn’t make another disastrous decision
Kevin Sherrington, Morning News
DAL: Cooper Flagg to Mavericks: Timeline of Dallas’ improbable journey to win NBA Draft Lottery
Zach Harper, The Athletic
DAL: The Mavericks Tumbled Into a Miracle With Cooper Flagg
Danny Chau, The Ringer
DAL: How a season from hell turned into an unthinkable hope
Iztok Franko, digginbasketball
DAL: Where do Mavericks go from here?
Sam Quinn, CBS Sports
MIA: Mavs get No. 1 pick from same lottery seed that would have belonged to Heat. What could have been?
Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald
NOP: Pelicans, despite draft lottery slide, can solidify foundation around Zion Williamson
William Guillory, The Athletic
OKC: Thunder Final 2025 NBA Draft Positioning Solidified With Three Total Picks
Nick Crain, Forbes
PHI: Inside the ‘roller-coaster’ NBA draft lottery room, where three was the Sixers’ lucky number
Gina Mizell, The Inquirer
SAC: Kings’ hard luck continues in NBA Draft Lottery
Jason Jones, The Athletic
SAS: Lottery Results: Spurs will draft 2nd and 14th in the first round
Paul Garcia, The Spot Up Shot
UTA: Who could the Jazz get with the No. 5 pick
Andy Larsen, Salt Lake Tribune
UTA: What’s next for Jazz after suffering worst-case scenario in NBA Draft Lottery?
Tony Jones, The Athletic
WAS: Wizards’ NBA Draft Lottery results can be summed up by one word: Cruel
David Aldridge, The Athletic
LEAGUEWIDE
The NBA Draft lottery is broken again
Charles Curtis, USA Today
Draft lottery results: Top takeaways and questions
ESPN
Scenes from a seismic night in the NBA
Jake Fischer, The Stein Line
NBA Draft Lottery: Inside the silence, confusion and celebration
Mike Vorkunov, The Athletic
Winners, Losers from 2025 NBA Draft Lottery
Kurt Helin, NBC Sports
Biggest Winners and Losers
Grant Afseth, Ball is Life
Wild NBA Draft Lottery night opens door to blockbuster trade possibilities
John Hollinger, The Athletic
Lottery winners & losers 2025: Cooper Flagg's fit with Mavericks, freefalls for Wizards and Jazz
Stephen Noh, Sporting News
NEW MOCK DRAFTS
Projecting all 59 picks post-lottery
Jonathan Givony/Jeremy Woo, ESPN
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