The NBA conducted its draft tiebreakers on Monday, further cementing the draft order for 2025. While we’ll have to wait until the May 12 draft lottery to learn the exact order for this year’s event, we now know what most of the 59 selections look like.
Listed below is the pre-lottery 2025 NBA draft order. Each lottery team’s chances of landing the No. 1 overall pick is noted in parentheses. We’ve also included notes for picks whose status remains up in the air depending on the lottery results.
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The second-round draft order for teams with identical regular season records is the inverse of their first-round order. This rule applies even if one club made the playoffs and one didn’t.
We’ll provided an updated list after the May 12 lottery, once the official draft order is set, but here’s the tentative 2025 NBA draft order:
First round
- Utah Jazz (14.0%)
- Washington Wizards (14.0%)
- Charlotte Hornets (14.0%)
- New Orleans Pelicans (12.5%)
- Philadelphia 76ers (10.5%)
- Note: The Thunder will receive this pick if it falls out of the top six (36.0%).
- Brooklyn Nets (9.0%)
- Toronto Raptors (7.5%)
- San Antonio Spurs (6.0%)
- Houston Rockets (from Suns) (3.8%)
- Portland Trail Blazers (3.7%)
- Dallas Mavericks (1.8%)
- Chicago Bulls (1.7%)
- Atlanta Hawks (from Kings) (0.8%)
- Note: The Kings will retain this pick if it moves into the top four (3.8%).
- San Antonio Spurs (from Hawks) (0.7%)
- Oklahoma City Thunder (from Heat)
- Orlando Magic
- Minnesota Timberwolves (from Pistons)
- Washington Wizards (from Grizzlies)
- Brooklyn Nets (from Bucks)
- Miami Heat (from Warriors)
- Utah Jazz (from Timberwolves)
- Atlanta Hawks (from Lakers)
- Indiana Pacers
- Oklahoma City Thunder (from Clippers)
- Orlando Magic (from Nuggets)
- Brooklyn Nets (from Knicks)
- Brooklyn Nets (from Rockets)
- Boston Celtics
- Phoenix Suns (from Cavaliers)
- Los Angeles Clippers (from Thunder)
Second round
- Minnesota Timberwolves (from Jazz)
- Boston Celtics (from Wizards)
- Charlotte Hornets
- Charlotte Hornets (from Pelicans)
- Philadelphia 76ers
- Brooklyn Nets
- Detroit Pistons (from Raptors)
- San Antonio Spurs
- Toronto Raptors (from Trail Blazers)
- Note: This pick would move to No. 40 if the Trail Blazers end up with a higher first-round pick than the Rockets (from Suns) via the lottery.
- Washington Wizards (from Suns)
- Note: This pick would move to No. 39 if the Trail Blazers end up with a higher first-round pick than the Rockets (from Suns) via the lottery.
- Golden State Warriors (from Heat)
- Sacramento Kings (from Bulls)
- Note: This pick would move to No. 43 if the Bulls end up with a higher first-round pick than the Mavericks via the lottery.
- Utah Jazz (from Mavericks)
- Note: This pick would move to No. 42 if the Bulls end up with a higher first-round pick than the Mavericks via the lottery.
- Oklahoma City Thunder (from Hawks)
- Note: This pick would move to No. 45 if the Spurs (from Hawks) end up with a higher first-round pick than the Hawks (from Kings) via the lottery.
- Chicago Bulls (from Kings)
- Note: This pick would move to No. 44 if the Spurs (from Hawks) end up with a higher first-round pick than the Hawks (from Kings) via the lottery.
- Orlando Magic
- Milwaukee Bucks (from Pistons)
- Memphis Grizzlies (from Warriors)
- Cleveland Cavaliers (from Bucks)
- New York Knicks (from Grizzlies)
- Los Angeles Clippers (from Timberwolves)
- Phoenix Suns (from Nuggets)
- Utah Jazz (from Clippers)
- Indiana Pacers
- Los Angeles Lakers
New York Knicks- Note: The Knicks forfeited this second-round pick due to free agency gun-jumping.
- Memphis Grizzlies (from Rockets)
- Orlando Magic (from Celtics)
- Cleveland Cavaliers
- Houston Rockets (from Thunder)
If the sixers, spurs or mavs win the lottery then it’s rigged. But to be more accurate, if the spurs win it, then it’s super rigged and we riot.
Love GSW picking #41, they have such good luck with second rounders, its the perfect spot for them to find that diamond in the rough!
Allen Smailagić, Jordan Bell, Patrick Baldwin, Ryan Rollins, Nico Manion, Patrick McCaw… even Jacob Evans at number 30.
And some of these guys, the Warriors paid good money to purchase the right to draft them lol.
I would say Bob Myers’s drafting history is horrendous. Don Nelson grabbed Steph Curry, Jerry West was behind the Klay Thompson draft, and Draymond Green was supposed to be a first round pick so he slipped and they grabbed him.
Other than that all wasted pics but what can you expect from the second round? I just don’t want to hear anybody saying the Warriors are great at 2nd round picks lol.
Now Mike Dunleavy is a different story. I think he’s going to be great moving forward.
Jordan Poole was a bit of a wasted pick. Nic Claxton and Daniel Gafford came after him.
This draft, the Center from down on The Farm is worth looking at. Some mocks have him coming off the board in the Warriors range. Others have him going in the 1st. He is a 4 year guy who has gotten better every year. He seems to have all the skills.
Sixers need that #1 or #2. Need retribution for being cursed. Enough is enough. Best player since Iverson is always injured come playoff time. Benjalina. Taking Fultz over Tatum bc Coleangelo is a clown. Having to take Jah bc KP wouldn’t sign here. Brett Browns miserable GM fail by trading Mikal Bridges and/or not taking MPJ.
Flagg to save the franchise or Harper to at least get a potential AS.
Sixers don’t deserve a damn. They shall get the 13th pick.
Under the new CBA, second-round picks, especially late ones, are more valuable than they used to be.
The lowest possible salary for a regular (not two-way) contract is for a rookie who was drafted in the second round. The players picked in the 30s trend to negotiate more than this, but a pick in the 40s might sign one. A player who signs a two-way contract, typically drafted in the 50s, and then gets converted to a full contract, would also get that same amount.
It’s a difference of over $900k. The most cost-savvy teams will have a mid-to-late second-round rookie at the end of the bench every season.
Pels or raps with #1
Hornets with a top 5, blazers and spurs with top 5. Jazz with the 8th, wiz with 9th. Sixers between 10-12.
OKC GM needs a pay raise. To whatever he wants. I hope they get the 6ths pick. The level of tank was a too egregious…..even by tanking standards.