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Chicago welcomed the NBA annual lottery on Monday evening. Despite its entry to the lottery with 1.8% dimensions, the Dallas Mavericks landed The upper selection For the next project.
The Dallas wings won the WNBA draft lottery and won the first selection of the draft last month.
Paige Bueckers was the first player in the table.
The former Uconn basketball star said that she was shocked by the good fortune of the Mavs at the lottery.
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Paige Bueckers is interviewed by ESPN after being selected with choice n ° 1 by the Dallas Wings during the WNBA 2025 draft at the Shed at Hudson Yards in New York, NY, April 14, 2025. (Vincent Carchietta / Imagn images)
“This is another thing that I didn’t think I was real at first,” said Bueckers, according to Dallas Morning News.
Bueckers said there were reasons why the Dallas NBA franchise had won the n ° 1 choice.
“But I believe that God makes no mistake, so that happened for a reason,” she suggested.
Duke outside competition Cooper Flagg is largely projected as the first hope of this year’s NBA draft.
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THE Charlotte Hornets Once again finished well below the brand .500, ending the 2024-25 season with less than 20 victories.
A project of perspective during the NBA 2025 recovery lottery in McCormick Place in Chicago on May 12, 2025. (David Banks / Imagn Images)
The Washington Wizards, which organized the second global selection of last year’s draft, have not won more than 20 games this season either.
Dallas Wings goalkeeper Paige Bueckers looks at a match between Dallas stars and Winnipeg jets at the American Airlines Center in Dallas on May 13, 2025. (Jerome Miron / Imagn images)
Despite the dull records and the relatively strong chances of winning the upper choice, the Hornets and the Wizards will choose below the first three.
The ratings of the NBA lottery have significantly flattened in recent years, which makes the teams more improbable that strike the reset button will eventually be rewarded by the rights on a selection of the first three.
