The Dallas Mavericks won the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft and a chance to draft Duke phenom Cooper Flagg. Here are the full 2025 NBA Draft Lottery results for the first 14 picks.
The ping pong balls bounced the Dallas Mavericks' way in the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes.
The Mavericks bolted to the top of the 2025 NBA Draft board thanks to one of the most unlikely draft lottery wins in event history.
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Dallas, which was eliminated in the play-in tournament following a much-maligned midseason trade of Luka Doncic, of landing the coveted No. 1 overall pick at 1.8%. The Mavs owned just 18 of the 1,001 possible four-digit combinations for the lottery drawing.
But one of them proved to be the winning combination for the top pick: 10-14-11-7.
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The winning combination of ping-pong balls that earned Dallas the #1 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft: 10, 14, 11, 7.
— NBA Communications (@NBAPR)
Watch the full lottery drawing below.
The Mavericks became just the fourth team with less than 2% odds to win the No. 1 pick since the weighted lottery system debuted in 1990.
The biggest lottery miracle came back in 1993. After winning the sweepstakes with the second-best odds in , the came into at 1.52%. But Orlando jumped from No. 11 to No. 1, becoming the first franchise to win consecutive lotteries. The Magic selected first overall in 1993 and then promptly traded him to the for No. 3 pick and several future first-rounders.
There are two teams that have won the lottery with 1.7% odds. The in before selecting hometown prospect . And one year after claiming the , the went back-to-back in 2014 by winning it . Cleveland then used No. 1 pick on and dealt him less than two months later to the in a trade for .
Here's a full look at the most unlikely draft lottery wins of all time, , along with the players who were selected:
1. Orlando Magic, 1993: 1.52% -- Chris Webber
T-2. Chicago Bulls, 2008: 1.7% -- Derrick Rose
T-2. Cleveland Cavaliers, 2014: 1.7% -- Andrew Wiggins
4. Dallas Mavericks, 2025: 1.8% -- TBD
5. Cleveland Cavaliers (via Clippers), 2011: 2.8% -- Kyrie Irving
6. Atlanta Hawks, 2024: 3% -- Zaccharie Risacher
7. New Jersey Nets, 2000: 4.4% -- Kenyon Martin
8. Portland Trail Blazers, 2007: 5.3% -- Greg Oden
9. New Orleans Pelicans, 2019: 6% -- Zion Williamson
10. Milwaukee Bucks, 2005: 6.3% -- Andrew Bogut
11. Toronto Raptors, 2006: 8.8% -- Andrea Bargnani
12. Houston Rockets, 2002: 8.9% -- Yao Ming
13. Golden State Warriors 1995: 9.4% -- Joe Smith
Editor's note: The original version of this story was published in 2022.
