The 76ers WILL keep their first-round pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, and it will be No. 3 overall!
The balls did NOT fall in favor of any of the top three odds-makers for the No. 1 pick, as it was the Dallas Mavericks who won the NBA Draft lottery for the first time ever – overcoming just 1.8 percent odds, the fourth-lowest odds ever to win the lottery – and the right to select No. 1 overall in the 2025 NBA Draft (and likely take Duke’s Cooper Flagg).
San Antonio, who selected Victor Wembanyama No. 1 overall in 2023 and Stephon Castle No. 4 last year, will pick second in 2025, with the 76ers getting No. 3 – and meaning they keep their pick, which would’ve conveyed to Oklahoma City as part of the 2020 Al Horford trade had it been outside the Top 6.
Utah, Washington, and Charlotte all had equal odds of getting the No. 1 overall pick, and all three of those teams fell; Washington and Utah will pick sixth and fifth, respectively, the lowest picks they could've gotten as the teams with the two worst records in the NBA, while Charlotte, who could’ve picked as low as seventh, ‘won’ the final spot in the lottery and will pick fourth.
Picks 7-14 will go in order of the regular-season standings of those teams, with that order being New Orleans, Brooklyn, Toronto, Houston, Portland, Chicago, Atlanta (via Sacramento from a 2022 trade), and San Antonio (via Atlanta, also from a 2022 trade).