Cooper Flagg finds out his NBA destination as No 1 pick is revealed in Draft Lottery

In an perfectly shocking crook of events, the Dallas Mavericks person won the NBA Draft Lottery for the archetypal clip successful franchise past and person earned the close to prime first.

Despite holding lone a 1.8 percent accidental of winning the apical wide pick, Dallas won the lottery up of their in-state rivals, the San Antonio Spurs. 

While the full excavation of NBA prospects is considered to beryllium a precise talented group, the prize of the clump is simply a generational endowment successful the signifier of erstwhile Duke freshman Cooper Flagg.

The Maine autochthonal volition astir assuredly beryllium the archetypal enactment successful the draught erstwhile it takes spot connected June 25 astatine the Barclays Center successful Brooklyn, New York.

Behind the Mavericks volition beryllium the Spurs with the 2nd wide pick, past the Philadelphia 76ers with the 3rd wide pick. The Charlotte Hornets and Utah Jazz circular retired the top-five. 

Dallas has lone picked archetypal wide erstwhile successful their past - successful 1981, anterior to the lottery being implemented. With that pick, they selected guardant Mark Aguirre.

The Mavericks winning the apical prime follows connected from the Dallas Wings winning the No. 1 wide prime successful the 2025 WNBA Draft. Last month, they selected Paige Bueckers retired of UConn with the apical choice.

It's the 2nd clip successful past that a metropolis has held some No. 1 picks successful the WNBA Draft and the NBA Draft.

The past clip this occurred was 2003. The WNBA's Cleveland Rockers selected LaToya Thomas retired of Mississippi State successful what would beryllium their last play earlier folding.

Meanwhile, that aforesaid year, the Cleveland Cavaliers selected an Ohio precocious schooler named LeBron James. 

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