{"id":15982,"date":"2025-06-26T10:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/15982\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T10:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T10:01:10","slug":"how-each-team-fared-in-the-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/15982\/","title":{"rendered":"How each team fared in the first round"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Post\u2019s Zach Braziller grades the first round of the 2025 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n

1. Dallas Mavericks \u2014 Cooper Flagg, F, Duke\u00a0<\/p>\n

Grade: A:<\/strong> Entering draft night, the bigger question for the Mavericks was whether Jason Kidd would still be their coach next year, rather than who they would take with the No. 1 pick. This was a lock<\/a> the moment Dallas somehow won the draft lottery with only 1.8 percent odds of doing so. The do-it-all Flagg, the youngest player in the draft, is that transcendent of a draft prospect.\u00a0<\/p>\n

2. San Antonio Spurs \u2014 Dylan Harper, G, Rutgers\u00a0<\/p>\n

Grade: A:<\/strong> He has the size (6-foot-6), the pedigree (the son of five-time NBA champion Ron Harper) and the talent (averaged 19.4 points, 4.6 rebounds and 4.0 assists as a freshman) to be an immediate impact player<\/a>. And he won\u2019t be asked to carry too large of a burden, joining Victor Wembanyama and Rookie of the Year Stephon Castle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dylan Harper reacts to being drafted second by the Spurs. AP<\/p>\n

3. Philadelphia 76ers \u2014 V.J. Edgecombe, G, Baylor\u00a0<\/p>\n

Grade: A:<\/strong> Ace Bailey\u2019s loss is Edgecombe\u2019s gain. The Rutgers star\u2019s refusal to work out for Philadelphia<\/a> leads the 76ers to taking the Bahamian standout, an elite athlete who some scouts have compared to Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Post\u2019s Zach Braziller grades the first round of the 2025 NBA Draft. 1. Dallas Mavericks \u2014 Cooper…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[12548,3124,3118,2494,12549,1260,2629,2630,3123,3138,62,2225,67,132,68,3132],"class_list":["post-15982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ace-bailey","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-cooper-flagg","tag-dylan-harper","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-nba-draft-2025","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-utah-jazz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114749092082938518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}