2025 NBA Mock Draft 2.0: Cooper Flagg isn't the only Duke star projected in the lottery

Now that the men’s college basketball season is underway, we can finally look forward to the 2025 NBA Draft with slightly more confidence.

While it is still far too early to know much of what we will happen at Barclays Center in June, with teams playing around the nation, we can at least identify which prospects are at least initially living up to all of their hype and which are off to slower starts.

For this exercise, to determine our draft order, we reversed the standings of projected playoff probabilities provided by our friends at dunksandthrees.com. Meanwhile, we also included trades based on what picks are owed around the league.

Even though we don’t yet know what will happen on draft night or how these careers will shape out, this class seems to initially offer far more thrilling options at the top than the 2024 NBA Draft did just last year.

This is how we project everything shaking out as of right now, though expect plenty of changes as the season progresses.

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