Draft Lotto Thread (2025 edition)

[Tetsujin]

#PullDownThePantsa4Dybantsa

 

[gunks]

Lol Silver not beating the "lotto is rigged" allegations.

RIP to our pick, but I wasnt expecting a miracle.

 

[SacTownKid]

To me the best Giannis move is Houston for Sengun, Reed Sheppard, Cam Whitmore plus a pick or two. That would be a great way to jumpstart a new era for Milwaukee.

Maybe, the Bucks are in a good spot now if they want to move him. In fact, with all things aligning having win now teams get the top 2 picks in basically a 2 player draft it couldn't have gotten any better for them.

 

[Tetsujin]

Lol Silver not beating the "lotto is rigged" allegations.

Dude somehow more crooked than David Stern haha

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Dallas Mavericks go from being in NBA Final last season to this season trading 26 year old superstar for another one age 32, injured repeatedly throughout his career. Then they lose another superstar point guard to injury, with rehab presumably ready upcoming season. Then Dallas somehow gets #1 pick in 2025 NBA draft to win the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes. Is this real or a bad dream for all the other teams in the Western Conference?

When do we get rewarded for what happened with Fox. Oh now, Spurs get the #2.

Monte should have fought harder for their pick this year frankly.

I will LOL if they keep the pick though and stay on Wemby's timeline.

 

[Tetsujin]

When do we get rewarded for what happened with Fox. Oh now, Spurs get the #2.

Monte should have fought harder for their pick this year frankly.

I will LOL if they keep the pick though and stay on Wemby's timeline.

Meh, Wemby’s been pretty vocal about winning now so trading the pick is on his timeline.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Meh, Wemby’s been pretty vocal about winning now so trading the pick is on his timeline.

Ok fine, MIL should ask for #2 and Fox for Dame and Giannis.

Good news for SA is they'd also have to take all the crappy guys they paid the last 2-3 seasons and no longer want.

 

[iowamcnabb]

All y'all folks talking conspiracy, but I love this result! I love it because it's a giant double bird to the tanking teams. I don't care about Dallas one way or the other, but I love the fact that a team that was fighting to make the playoffs until the very end got the #1 pick, and the two teams that raced each other to the bottom both ended up out of the Top 4.

**** tanking.

Spurs and Sixers tanked too.

 

[Tetsujin]

Nico not picking Flagg would be the funniest thing in NBA history

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) May 12, 2025

 

[SacTownKid]

Meh, Wemby’s been pretty vocal about winning now so trading the pick is on his timeline.

Yeah, his timeline was on day 1. Besides, historically better get that ball moving because the health thing already appears to be hitting him. Although it's a flukey thing. Players that height are what they are in terms of longevity.

 

[Tetsujin]

Spurs and Sixers tanked too.

Spurs didn’t tank. Their best player just had blood clots and their interim coach was bad. Sixers didn’t tank, they were just terrible

 

[Joshyjosh31]

League planting the second pick to secure Giannis to San Antonio isn’t slick either

 

[SacTownKid]

Spurs and Sixers tanked too.

Exactly, the Spurs were freaking shameless towards the end. This rewarded the rich and now the rich get richer. This is really, really bad haha.

 

[Tetsujin]

Bulls lost the tie breaker that wouldve been the Luka pick. Now in 2025 we lost the tie breaker that would’ve put us top 4. Im over it

— KENNY BEECHAM (@KOT4Q) May 12, 2025

 

[SacTownKid]

Spurs didn’t tank. Their best player just had blood clots and their interim coach was bad. Sixers didn’t tank, they were just terrible

Fox for sure was tanking. Fox's reward? Another PG? haha.

 

[SacTownKid]

Bulls lost the tie breaker that wouldve been the Luka pick. Now in 2025 we lost the tie breaker that would’ve put us top 4. Im over it

— KENNY BEECHAM (@KOT4Q) May 12, 2025

They literally had Jordan. Cry us a river.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Miracle shot in the arm aside, I'm just glad this owed pick thing is over. It's just a shame we didn't just let ATL have our pick in 23 instead of holding it for a season.

 

[ShastaKingsFan]

Maybe, the Bucks are in a good spot now if they want to move him. In fact, with all things aligning having win now teams get the top 2 picks in basically a 2 player draft it couldn't have gotten any better for them.

It's amazing how these things just align themselves with random bounces of ping pong balls

 

[iowamcnabb]

So imagine if the Rockets get Giannis, Mavs just keep Flagg and the Spurs do the trade proposed in this thread. West is out of control

 

[Tetsujin]

They literally had Jordan. Cry us a river.

This happening on top of them only getting one first round pick (that also happened to be their own), Josh Giddey, and a couple of rotation guys for their old core of Lavine/Deebo/Caruso is hilarious though.

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Bulls lost the tie breaker that wouldve been the Luka pick. Now in 2025 we lost the tie breaker that would’ve put us top 4. Im over it

— KENNY BEECHAM (@KOT4Q) May 12, 2025

Teams split the x/y odds evenly in the coin flip. Unless it was the one extra chance that landed, I am not sure we can 100% say which team would have had the magic ball that hit.

 

[chief bromden]

Spurs didn’t tank. Their best player just had blood clots and their interim coach was bad. Sixers didn’t tank, they were just terrible

Spurs and Sixers absolutely tanked, what is this revisionist history?

 

[SLAB]

I’m just pissed that Nico gets bailed out.

Good for Mavs fans though.

 

[Tetsujin]

My guess to the order of things:

1. Flagg
2. Harper
3. Bailey
4. Edgecombe

At five who are you taking Jazz fans?

— Tony Jones (@Tjonesonthenba) May 12, 2025

Hope you’re doing okay @Npliam

 

[iowamcnabb]

Spurs didn’t tank. Their best player just had blood clots and their interim coach was bad. Sixers didn’t tank, they were just terrible

They tanked because they sat Fox who had played all year with the kings. Sixers were sitting everyone once they realized they could lose their pick. Not saying those weren’t the right decisions but they were actively trying to lose at the end.

 

[Joshyjosh31]

Nico not picking Flagg would be the funniest thing in NBA history

— Kirk Goldsberry (@kirkgoldsberry) May 12, 2025

People are stupid man Nico is a good GM look how he built that Dallas team thinking he did that Luka trade without force is asinine.

 

[SacTownKid]

I’m just pissed that Nico gets bailed out.

Good for Mavs fans though.

Mavs fans suffer, but not for long. It's a rule. Dirk ages out, get Luka, trade Luka, get Flagg. Very strange, not.

 

[Tetsujin]

They tanked because they sat Fox who had played all year with the kings. Sixers were sitting everyone once they realized they could lose their pick. Not saying those weren’t the right decisions but they were actively trying to lose at the end.

I’m not sure if Fox FINALLY getting hand surgery counts as them sitting him though. Dude hurt his hand in preseason and decided to keep trying to play through it for the first four months of the NBA season anyways

 

[iowamcnabb]

When it comes to drama, there is no league like the NBA haha

 

[Tetsujin]

Another friendly reminder that the Spurs pick that the Kings did get in the Fox trade, a 2027 unprotected first, will likely be terrible now that the Spurs will have a young/prime big 3.

Worse and worse for Sacramento.

— Matt George (@MattGeorgeSAC) May 12, 2025

That pick is still two years out, which as we’ve seen with how the Mavs went from lotto team to finals team to TEAM WITH THE FIRST OVERALL PICK is an eternity in NBA time lol