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2025 NBA Draft
General information
Sport	Basketball
Date(s)	June 25–26, 2025
Location	Barclays Center (Brooklyn, New York)
Network(s)	ESPN ABC (first round only)
Overview
59 total selections in 2 rounds
League	National Basketball Association
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The 2025 NBA draft will be the 79th edition of the National Basketball Association's annual draft. Like the 2024 draft, this draft will take place over two nights. The draft will consist of 59 picks as opposed to the full 60 picks due to the New York Knicks losing a second round pick from a free agency violation in 2022.^[1]

The first round of the draft will take place on June 25, 2025, while the second round will take place on June 26. Both rounds will be held at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The time between second-round picks will remain four minutes, a change that was made from the previous year's draft.^[2][3]

PG

Point guard

SG

Shooting guard

SF

Small forward

PF

Power forward

C

Center

#	Denotes player who has never appeared in an NBA regular season or playoff game
~	Denotes player who has been selected as Rookie of the Year

Rnd.	Pick	Player	Pos.	Nationality [n 1]	Team	School / club team
1	1
1	2
1	3
1	4
1	5
1	6
1	7
1	8
1	9
1	10
1	11
1	12
1	13
1	14
1	15				Oklahoma City Thunder (from Miami)
1	16				Orlando Magic
1	17				Minnesota Timberwolves (from Detroit via New York, Oklahoma City, and Houston)
1	18				Washington Wizards (from Memphis)[A]
1	19				Brooklyn Nets (from Milwaukee via New York, Detroit, Portland, and New Orleans)
1	20				Miami Heat (from Golden State)
1	21				Utah Jazz (from Minnesota)
1	22				Atlanta Hawks (from LA Lakers via New Orleans)
1	23				Indiana Pacers
1	24				Oklahoma City Thunder (from LA Clippers)
1	25				Orlando Magic (from Denver)
1	26				Brooklyn Nets (from New York)
1	27				Brooklyn Nets (from Houston)
1	28				Boston Celtics
1	29				Brooklyn Nets (from Cleveland)
1	30				Phoenix Suns (from Oklahoma City)
2	31				Minnesota Timberwolves (from Utah)
2	32				Boston Celtics (from Washington)
2	33				Charlotte Hornets
2	34				Charlotte Hornets (from New Orleans via San Antonio, Phoenix, and Memphis)
2	35				Philadelphia 76ers
2	36				Brooklyn Nets
2	37				Detroit Pistons (from Toronto via Dallas and San Antonio)
2	38				San Antonio Spurs
2	39/40				Toronto Raptors (from Portland via Sacramento)[B]
2	39/40				Washington Wizards (from Phoenix)
2	41				Golden State Warriors (from Miami via Brooklyn and Indiana)
2	42/43				Sacramento Kings (from Chicago via San Antonio)
2	42/43				Utah Jazz (from Dallas)
2	44/45				Oklahoma City Thunder (from Atlanta)
2	44/45				Chicago Bulls (from Sacramento)
2	46				Orlando Magic
2	47				Milwaukee Bucks (from Detroit)
2	48				Memphis Grizzlies (from Golden State)
2	49				Cleveland Cavaliers (from Milwaukee)
2	50				New York Knicks (from Memphis via Oklahoma City and Boston)
2	51				Los Angeles Clippers (from Minnesota via Atlanta and Houston)
2	52				Phoenix Suns (from Denver)
2	53				Utah Jazz (from LA Clippers via the LA Lakers)
2	54				Indiana Pacers
2	55				Los Angeles Lakers
2	New York Knicks (forfeited due to tampering violation)[1]
2	56				Memphis Grizzlies (from Houston)
2	57				Orlando Magic (from Boston)
2	58				Cleveland Cavaliers
2	59				Houston Rockets (from Oklahoma City)

Prior to the draft, the following trades were made and resulted in exchanges of draft picks between teams:

The 11th G League Elite Camp will take place on May 9–11, from which certain participants were selected to join the main draft combine.^[7]

The primary portion of the 2025 NBA Draft Combine will be held from May 11–18 in Chicago, Illinois.^[7]

The NBA draft lottery will be held on May 12.

Denotes the actual lottery result

Team	2024–25 record	Lottery chances	Lottery probabilities
			1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th
Utah Jazz	17–65	140	14.0%	13.4%	12.7%	12.0%	47.9%	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Washington Wizards	18–64	140	14.0%	13.4%	12.7%	12.0%	27.8%	20.0%	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Charlotte Hornets	19–63	140	14.0%	13.4%	12.4%	11.7%	15.3%	27.1%	7.4%	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
New Orleans Pelicans	21–61	125	12.5%	12.2%	12.3%	11.7%	6.8%	24.6%	16.4%	2.2%	–	–	–	–	–	–
Philadelphia 76ers[a]	24–58	105	10.5%	10.5%	10.6%	10.5%	2.2%	19.6%	26.7%	8.7%	0.6%	–	–	–	–	–
Brooklyn Nets	26–56	90	9.0%	9.2%	9.4%	9.6%	–	8.6%	29.8%	20.5%	3.7%	0.1%	–	–	–	–
Toronto Raptors	30–52	75	7.5%	7.8%	8.1%	8.5%	–	–	19.7%	34.1%	12.9%	1.3%	<0.1%	–	–	–
San Antonio Spurs	34–48	60	6.0%	6.3%	6.7%	7.2%	–	–	–	34.5%	32.1%	6.7%	0.4%	<0.1%	–	–
Phoenix Suns (to Houston)	36–46	38	3.8%	4.1%	4.5%	4.9%	–	–	–	–	50.7%	28.3%	3.5%	0.1%	<0.1%	–
Portland Trail Blazers	36–46	37	3.7%	4.0%	4.4%	4.8%	–	–	–	–	–	63.4%	18.5%	1.2%	<0.1%	<0.1%
Dallas Mavericks	39–43	18	1.8%	2.0%	2.2%	2.5%	–	–	–	–	–	–	77.6%	13.5%	0.4%	<0.1%
Chicago Bulls	39–43	17	1.7%	1.9%	2.1%	2.4%	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	85.2%	6.7%	0.1%
Sacramento Kings[b]	40–42	8	0.8%	0.9%	1.0%	1.1%	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	92.9%	3.3%
Atlanta Hawks (to San Antonio)	40–42	7	0.7%	0.8%	0.9%	1.0%	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	96.6%

The draft is conducted under the eligibility rules established in the league's 2023 collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with its players' union.

• All drafted players must be at least 19 years old during the calendar year of the draft. In terms of dates, players who were eligible for the 2025 NBA draft must have been born on or before December 31, 2006.
• Since the 2016 draft, the following rules are, as implemented by the NCAA Division I council for that division:^[8]
  • Declaration for the draft no longer results in automatic loss of college eligibility. As long as a player does not sign a contract with a professional team outside the NBA or sign with an agent, he retains college eligibility as long as he makes a timely withdrawal from the draft.
  • NCAA players now have 10 days after the end of the NBA Draft Combine to withdraw from the draft. Since the combine is normally held in mid-May, the current deadline is about five weeks after the previous mid-April deadline.
  • NCAA players may participate in the draft combine and are allowed to attend one tryout per year with each NBA team without losing college eligibility.
  • NCAA players may now enter and withdraw from the draft up to two times without loss of eligibility. Previously, the NCAA treated a second declaration of draft eligibility as a permanent loss of college eligibility.

Players who were not automatically eligible had to declare their eligibility for the draft by notifying the NBA offices in writing no later than at least 60 days before the event. For the 2025 draft, the date fell on April 26. Under the CBA a player may withdraw his name from consideration from the draft at any time before the final declaration deadline, which usually falls 10 days before the draft at 5:00 pm EDT (2100 UTC). Under current NCAA rules, players usually have until 10 days after the draft combine to withdraw from the draft and retain college eligibility.^[7]

A player who has hired an agent for purposes of negotiating with professional teams^[c] retains his remaining college eligibility regardless of whether he is drafted after an evaluation from the NBA Undergraduate Advisory Committee. Players who declare for the NBA draft and are not selected have the opportunity to return to their school for at least another year only after terminating all agreements with their agents,^[d] who must have been certified.^[9]

"Redshirt" referred to players who were redshirt seniors in the 2024–25 season and who have college eligibility remaining.

• Nathan Bittle – C, Oregon
• Yaxel Lendeborg – PF, UAB
• Jamir Watkins - G, Florida State

Players who do not meet the criteria for "international" players are automatically eligible if they meet any of the following criteria:

• They have no remaining college eligibility.
• If they graduated from high school in the U.S., but did not enroll in a U.S. college or university, four years have passed since their high school class graduated.
• They have signed a contract with a professional basketball team not in the NBA, anywhere in the world, and have played under the contract.

Players who meet the criteria for "international" players are automatically eligible if they meet any of the following criteria:

• They are at least 22 years old during the calendar year of the draft. In term of dates players born on or before December 31, 2003, are automatically eligible for the 2025 draft.
• They have signed a contract with a professional basketball team not in the NBA within the United States, and have played under that contract.