What time is 2025 NBA Draft today? How to watch Round 2
The first round of the draft featured a mix of expected moves and surprising selections. The Dallas Mavericks, as expected, selected Duke's Cooper Flagg as the No. 1 overall pick, with the San Antonio Spurs following with Dylan Harper as the No. 2 pick. Among the night's unexpected decisions, the Utah Jazz selected Ace Bailey as the No. 5 overall pick. Bailey appeared stunned by the choice, especially since he had declined multiple offers to visit and work out with the Jazz. Additionally, Bailey had previously expressed a strong preference for being picked by the Washington Wizards or Brooklyn Nets.
The second round starts with the Minnesota Timberwolves set to make the 31st pick. There is a wide array of talent still available, including notable names such as Rasheer Fleming from Saint Joseph, Maxime Raynaud from Stanford, and French basketball player Noah Penda.
Here is how to watch the second round of the 2025 NBA Draft:
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The second round of the 2025 NBA Draft is scheduled for Thursday, June 26 at 8 p.m. ET, and will be broadcast on ESPN.
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Advertisement By the way, when a team signs a player with three or more seasons of NBA experience to a minimum-salary contract, the league reimburses the team for the difference of that salary and the minimum salary for a player with two years of service. The Wizards will make out better with that reimbursement if they re-sign Gill than they would have made out if they had not waived him. Gill has played a critical role as a resource and as an example for the team's young players. It appears that a significant segment of Wizards fans would prefer to see the team use its final roster spot on a young player with more on-court potential. That is a valid point. That said, even with Middleton, CJ McCollum, Olynyk (and possibly Marcus Smart) on the roster, I think Washington would benefit from having Gill as a player. Could Gill serve as a mentor to players as a member of the front office? To a degree, yes. But he'd be more effective as a player, in my opinion. 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Developing into a solid starter on a contending team is a pretty good outcome, especially in the case of a player who was drafted 14th (Carrington), 23rd (AJ Johnson) or 24th (George); as draft-obsessed observers would say, those would be cases of Washington finding solid 'value.' Advertisement But do any of the players project as likely future All-Stars? The short answer: probably not, but it's much too early to know for sure. The players I've mentioned range in age from 19 to 21 years old, and their NBA experience levels range from none (in Tre Johnson's case) to two seasons (in Coulibaly's case). It's incredibly difficult to predict how players this young and this inexperienced will develop. Sometimes youngsters make leaps that even the people who drafted them do not expect. Still, I say this all the time, and I stand by it: A potential danger for the Wizards' rebuild is that the team will wind up with 'merely good' young players but no one who truly drives winning. There would be avenues to overcome that scenario, such as a trade for an undervalued player or for a player who is redundant on his roster; an example would be how Indiana acquired Tyrese Haliburton, Buddy Hield and Tristan Thompson from Sacramento a few years ago for Domantas Sabonis, Justin Holiday, Jeremy Lamb and a future second-round pick. Free agency would be another possibility; Houston, for instance, signed veteran free agents such as Fred VanVleet and Dillon Brooks and hired a top coach to complement its young nucleus. Still, for Washington or any other team that started a rebuild almost from scratch, the cleanest way to get a star is through the draft, because it would mean no players or draft picks would go out the door to acquire him. To the Wizards' credit, they haven't put all their hopes on winning the lottery and picking at the top of the draft. They've attempted to trade for as many future first-round picks or young players as possible in the hope that at least one of those players — Carrington, George and AJ Johnson, for instance — emerges as a top-flight player. At this moment, I cannot point to anyone on the roster whom I confidently envision as a future All-Star. It's early yet, though. The young Wizards are welcome to prove me (and many personnel evaluators around the league) wrong. (Top photo of Alex Sarr and Wendell Carter Jr.: Reggie Hildred / Imagn Images)
