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Around the NBA, it is often said that a project course cannot be assessed for at least two years to see who were the real winners, losers, stars in small groups and disappointments.
But what would be the pleasure in there?
As soon as the first round of the 2025 draft finished Wednesday evening in Brooklyn, New York, NBC News analyzed some of the main scenarios to emerge from the first 30 choices.
How will the Cooper Flagg n ° 1 be held in Dallas?
Greif: A player of the versatility of Flagg would integrate anywhere in the NBA, but I am most interested in the quantity of Dallas coach, Jason Kidd, allows Flagg to manage the ball and launch the mavericks offensive since Kyrie Irving should miss all next season after having injured a knee ligament.
The Mavericks should have enough wage flexibility This offseason to call on a leader (Chris Paul, anyone?) But with Dallas in win-plus mode, he would seem to benefit their future from obtaining Flaka many representatives as soon as possible as a playmaker, just like the stars of NBA were established with US National Stars when he was only 17 years old, for a team of SCMIMM of NBA established when he was only 17 years old, during a scamage against US against US for the nba stars established when he was only 17 years old, for A. 2024, I did not have much doubts that he will enter the League with an idea of how to manage the defenses of the NBA.
Nadkar: Flagg should be an excellent adjustment with the Mavericks, especially because it will enter into a lower pressure situation than most draft choices. I am particularly curious to see how it fits on the defensive side of the ball.
Orlando Magic coach Jamahl Mosley, who trained Flagg in the Select team before last year’s Olympic Games, congratulated Flagg for his attention to the details at this end of the ground after his time together. Flagg could end up being a beautiful defensive piece on the wing for a list that already includes Anthony Davis and an emerging edge protector in Dereck Lively III.
Favorite choice
Nadkar: Ace Bailey was Something of a lightning rod Entering Wednesday, but it seems to be an intelligent bet for jazz. UTAH is in the little enviable position not to be a higher target for free agents. Jazz does not have many opportunities to acquire a Bailey talent player. And after the choice of Utah, he fell from the top four, grasping a player that many expected to be in the top three feels like a home run.
Could Bailey grow up at the beginning? Of course. However, it will be checked by cost for four years, and jazz will have the opportunity to put a competition list around it in the meantime. Although they are not quite the same player, remember that it is the same franchise that was lifted by a young Donovan Mitchell. Bailey should receive a similar opportunity to make its own brand in the rear area.
Greif: VJ EdgeCombe in Philadelphia at No. 3. There were more speculation on the fact that the Sixers would use or exchange their choice, since they came from a nightmare season who saw a candidate for the title of pre-season tripping at 24 victories after an injury to the former MVP Joel Embiid and a first disappointing season for the signing of the free-agent spish george. Holding it to select EdgeCombe is like the right decision to adapt to the two deadlines that the team is considering.
He is a player who improves the team at the moment, if Philadelphia is still pursuing a championship – in a team of older stars and subject to injuries, his athletics is seriously necessary – and he is certainly a constitutive element for the future, in case the franchise envisages a pivot to the future. Edgecombe playing with the young electric goalkeeper Tyrese Maxey is something that I will often look at the Pass League.
Most surprising choice
Greif: There were a few strong passers -by who made surprising jumps in the dashboard. The first was Egor Demin of Byu, who went eighth in the general classification in Brooklyn, around 20 choices higher than many simulated projects expected. But the biggest jump was Yang Hansen in China, who went from his screening in the middle of the second round of Thursday to 16th place, in a business that attracts him to Portland.
No one seemed to have seen this climb coming, but the tament of the big man of 7 feet 1 and the creative flair as a passer earned him comparisons with Nikola Jokic. (I admit that the images of his passes were immediately the subject of visions of Arvydas Sabonis skillfully finding teammates of the Blazers Open Trail in the 1990s.)
Let’s owner the brakes a little; Jokic is the great man best goes from all time, and among the best passers -by of all time, whatever his position. However, given that Hansen collected an average of 15 points, 11 rebounds and four assists in the best Chinese professional division two years ago when I am still a teenager, I am intrigued by knowing if he can hang in the NBA.
Nadkar: Khaman Maluach was an obvious choice for the Suns at No. 10. (The Rockets technically made the selection, but he will go to Phoenix as part of Kevin’s profession.) Except, a few minutes of the selection of Maluach, the Suns exchanged two first -round choices for the Center of Hornets Mark Williams. Eh?
Williams and Maluach are not the kind of great men who can play with each other. I understand that Phoenix was desperate in the front area. But a selection short team using three first -round choices on two centers is confusing. Maluach would have been a home run if the Suns simply hadn’t also exchanged against Williams. Maybe things will all shake up in the future (Williams could be a commercial chip again.) For the moment, however, the editorial staff of Maluach And Exchanging several choices for another center does not seem to be the most effective use of resources.
Team that won (or lost) at night
Nadkar: It may be time to nationalize the Pelicans of New Orleans. Seriously, what are they doing?
New Orleans has already made a strange decision this summer, exchanging the expired contract of CJ McCollum for two years of Jordan Poole. Of course, it doesn’t matter.
The real shoemaker came Wednesday evening when New Orleans exchanged from n ° 23 to No. 13 with the Hawks of Atlanta to take the great man of Maryland Derik Queen – and abandoned a 2026 Choice of unprotected first round in the process. Unprotected! A choice that will be the worst between the Pélicans and the Milwaukee Bucks, the two teams that should be very bad next year.
There is in fact a decent chance of New Orleans which has just exchanged a potential choice among the first five for a selection of late lottery. For a team that is rebuilt, I find it difficult to understand how it makes sense.
Graif:: Rohan, I am reaching your confusion on what is happening in New Orleans. You have covered this floor so completely, I will focus on the positive. I cheat a little but I have two teams who won the night, and both because of the guards they have selected.
Let’s start with the selection of Tre Johnson by Washington at No. 6. During last week, the Wizards sent Jordan Poole, a goalkeeper who seemed too reliable to be part of any long -term reconstruction, and brought back the accomplished veteran scorer CJ MCCOLLUM from New Orleans in exchange. Sorcerers need adults in the room and McCollum, a former union president, gives them this. He will be there to help the mentor Johnson, which has come out of Texas as one of the best pure scorers available.
By selecting Ace Bailey and Walter Clayton Jr., UTAH has also apparently chosen a clear direction after spending the past few years for walking in the NBA Wilderness to win high recovery choices. Bailey has enormous potential, if he can learn to accept the game in Utah, which was not one of his favorite destinations. Clayton Jr. is a winner and watches him guided Florida to several returns on the way to win the NCAA championship makes me think that he will bring an instant level of competence to the position of leader.
