The Brooklyn Nets did not move up in the 2025 NBA Draft Lottery, and will have the No. 8 overall pick in the first round.
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 – meaning the three teams with the best odds of getting No. 1 overall were shut out of the Top 3 completely.
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).
That No. 8 overall pick will be the first of four first-round selections for Brooklyn, as they also have Nos. 19 and 26 – both acquired from the Knicks in the Mikal Bridges trade – and No. 27, a selection they re-acquired the rights to last June after initially being part of the James Harden deal.