Wizards, NBA Draft Lottery
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The Washington Wizards will have the No. 6 overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, which is just about the worst-case scenario for their franchise.
Well, that was a rough lottery for the Washington Wizards. In a draft lottery where they had one of the best odds to nab the first overall pick, the Wizards fell all the way to the sixth overall pick. It's a brutal day for fans in D.C, as they went from dreaming about Flagg to rethinking their entire draft plans.
David Aldridge and Josh Robbins look at the six potential scenarios the Wizards could encounter after the lottery drawing in Chicago.
It wasn't a good day to be a sports fan in the nation's capital with the Wizards, Nationals and Capitals all losing in hours.
The Wizards' tanking efforts in the 2024-25 season felt like they were all for naught on Monday as the team with the second-best odds to land Cooper Flagg fell to sixth in the 2025 NBA Draft Lottery.
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Wizards officials put on a brave face in the aftermath, but Washington absorbed the most brutal gut punch the 2025 NBA Draft Lottery.
The draft lottery went exactly how the Wizards should have expected: As badly as possible.