March Madness is here, and there’s no better time than this week and next to watch projected 2025 NBA draft picks play in their respective conference tournaments and the NCAA tournament.
There are a host of projected first-round prospects, including Duke’s Cooper Flagg, Maryland’s Derik Queen, Baylor’s VJ Edgecombe and Oklahoma’s Jeremiah Fears, whose teams are projected to be in the Big Dance.
NBA executives will lean on the next month to scout how players will perform under pressure in some of the biggest games of their careers.
The first- and second-round order was generated by ESPN’s BPI forecast, which predicts how well all 30 NBA teams will perform during the rest of the season.
Notes: The draft order, as updated through Tuesday morning, reflects picks owed and owned via trades. True shooting percentage (TS%) is a formula that blends field goal percentage with free throw shooting and 3-point shooting into one catch-all ratio.
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