The Atlanta Hawks have 2 first round picks in the 2025 NBA Draft after a WILD lottery night

The Atlanta Hawks have 2 first round picks in the 2025 NBA Draft after a WILD lottery night

On today’s show, the NBA draft lottery was absolutely wild on Monday, but fortunately for the Hawks, it went pretty well in Atlanta. We’ll get into all of what transpired, what it says about the next 6 weeks, and more. All this coming up right now. You are Locked on Hawks, your daily Atlanta Hawks podcast, part of the Locked Onet. Your team every day. Hello friends, welcome to episode 1973 of the Lock on Hawks podcast. I am your host Brad Rolling coming to you on a Monday evening into Tuesday here in Midmay. And today’s podcast is brought to you by the folks at FanDuel Sportsbook. Right now, if you’re a new customer, get $200 in bonus bets. Your first bet wins at FanDuel. Place to go is FanDuel.com to get started. I also want to encourage you at the top of the show, as I always do, to make sure your first listen each and every day here at Loft Hawks. Check us out and subscribe to this podcast anywhere you find your podcasts. And be sure to tell your friends and family about the show. You can find us on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, etc. And we appreciate you being here as always. It was a busy night in the NBA. It was a crazy night in the NBA when it comes to the NBA draft lottery. I do want to lead with the Hawks. This is a Hawks podcast. And the biggest takeaway from the Hawk perspective is that the Hawks basically got the result that they wanted and I would say mostly expected on Monday. So, basically, the Hawks enter this night with a 96% plus chance to get the pick from Sacramento Kings. It’s been the long discussed I’ve been talking about the Kings pick for a long time now, almost three full years since the trade happened. It involved this pick, but it was top 12 protected. Coming into the year, coming into the night, it was 96% or more and a 93% chance roughly to be exactly number 13 overall at the end of the lottery. And that’s exactly what happened in this spot. So, it was expected that the Hawks didn’t get like lucky to get there, but it’s what actually happened. They were at least avoided being unlucky in this spot. What that means is the Hawks now have two picks in the top 22 of the draft in about six and a half weeks. Basically, at the end of June, it’s number 13 overall and number 22 overall. Basically, coming into the year, the best possible pick they could have gotten from Sacramento was 13 overall. So, that worked out swimmingly for Atlanta. You couldn’t driven sort of drawn it up any better than this. It was soft protected. It broke perfectly. Now that guarantees nothing, of course, but it’s just nice to have two first round picks and one of them be in the lottery. Granted, at the end of the lottery, but there is a small price to pay and that they do cost money. Their salary cap holds involved of more than $8 million for those two picks. But you definitely take that trade-off if you are the Hawks to come into play. Of course, with team building stuff and luxury tax and salary cap, all that stuff, it all matters. But in the end, you you even look, you go back to the Kevin Herur trade, which happened again almost three calendar years ago. I think it was like exactly July 1st of 2022. And a lot of that deal and the value of that deal rested almost exactly on whether the Hawks got a first round pick from the Kings and also how high of a first round pick that they got from the Kings. And while this does not actually matter in the grand scheme, this deal happened three years ago, it happened whatever, if you go back and kind of evaluate that that deal now, it looks a lot a lot better with number 13 overall coming back to Atlanta than it would have with a pick in the 20s or not conveying at all because there was a decent chance if the Hawks got unlucky tonight or if the Kings had just, you know, lost a few more games or whatever, it was kind of on the knife’s edge. Um I don’t want to rec I won’t recount all of it but in the last you know six weeks that pick varied wildly. The Hawks had to get some good fortune at the end of the season from Sacramento to get that pick. And yeah it’s not going to be Cooper Cooper flag obviously it’s not guaranteeing anything but to get that kind of asset for lack of of a better term that kind of you know pick and a way to add to the roster add to the depth and and the talent of the organization is a pretty big win for Atlanta. So big picture, that’s kind of the takeaway for me. You that pick in a strong position is uh very very important. And if you’re new to the podcast, we’ll spend the next six weeks talking about players and situations and scenarios and guys I like, guys I don’t like. And um having this basically these two picks are close enough together, but also further enough apart where they kind of overlap to some degree about maybe a couple players that could be involved in both spots, but there is a large swath of players. if they’re going to be available and reasonable for the Hawks to kind of evaluate and investigate and all that stuff. Uh if you listen to the show last night, I talked about this a lot on that show, some of some of the pre-lawy mock drafts that were out there casting a wide net on this thing. And yes, the Hawks are still at this moment on Monday evening without a president basketball operations that will dictate a lot about what what actually happens here for the Hawks. But big picture, 25 30 players are probably going to be somewhat involved here for the Hawks. But they do have two chances now to add to their roster and add to the young core that they’re already trying to build. And obviously that’s a very very good thing for the organization. I won’t go through the entire board here on the on this Hawks podcast, but a few listeners already asked this question. So let’s just do it a little bit here now. And I knew it was coming as soon as the Hawks had two picks. The natural inclination for many listeners, Hawks fans, viewers, this is not a criticism by the way, just very natural thing. Okay, if we trade these two picks, how high can we get? That’s a very natural thing. And I promise you, I got questions from John, from Ben. I think I got like seven or eight of this exact same question in the first 30 minutes after the lottery. And again, it’s very natural. So, I’ll probably go through this a little bit more as to what I think about it later on in the cycle. Generally speaking, I am not uh as eager to trade up in the draft as many people are. And uh the math is kind of on my side there historically, but also if you hit the right thing, it could be the right thing to do. So, I’m not saying you never do it, but that’s uh my general viewpoint, but I I did some some quick digging here um with some comparable situations. If you were to just offer 13 and 22, which is not exactly, you know, that there’s no rule that says you have to just offer that, but that was a scenario like, okay, package these two picks together, how how high can you get? It’s impossible to know without intel right now. My guess is, my educated guess again, right now on lottery night, no intel, is that maybe you can get to like 8 n something like that if you just offer 13 and 22. I’d be surprised if it was higher than that. Maybe at se, you know, seven right now is the Pelicans. Perhaps they wanted to take two swings at it. They might they might consider moving down. Brooklyn’s got a lot of picks. They’re number eight overall. Anyway, that’s kind of in a vacuum. Some history here. In 2013, pick 14 and pick 21 were traded together. That’s almost exactly the same as what the Hawks are offering, and that got them to number nine overall. In 2014, number 16 and number 19 went together for number 11 overall. That’s not exactly the same, but somewhat in the realm. In 2016, number 13, number 28, which is lower than what the Hawks have, and a couple of like other smaller things, went for number eight overall. So, roughly the same value calculus. And in 2017, number 15 and number 20 went for number 10 overall, which is again roughly where the Hawks are overall. So basically, if you look at the history in the last decade or so, all of these comparable moves would take you to like nineish, maybe 10, etc. I don’t know if the Hawks want to do that, by the way. We we don’t know and we probably can’t know in that until we know who the front office is going to be, but that’s the area. So yeah, if a player, pick your favorite player in this range, without getting into too many names, like your common Malawak or Kppel or who whichever player that it is that you’re dreaming about right now, if you want to get that guy, they’re going to have to fall to at least seven at the very very very least and probably even further than that. So broadly speaking, I would guess that’s probably not likely to happen, but it certainly is possible. And because I was asked about that so frequently in the last hour or two, I wanted to at least address that right off right off the bat here. It’s possible. It’s popular, but you can’t get to like five. Like, you have to throw in a lot more stuff to get even higher than that. In this class, generally speaking, my thought is there’s number one, and we’ll talk about and we’ll talk about him in a second with Cooper Flag. Uh number two at Dylan Harper, and then it’s kind of a pretty decent drop off. And the gap for me between 3,45 even and like what you can get at 13 is not probably big enough for me to be super eager to trade the world to move up too much. But we’ll get into all that more, I promise you. But probably speaking again one more time here, it’s a big win for the Hawks. It was expected coming into the night, but if you go back two months or so, nothing was guaranteed. There was a lot of mixed scenarios where the Hawks, you know, would have only had one pick in this draft. Could have been even lower. Go back to the tiebreaker night of the draft lottery before that. The Lakers actually quote unquote won a four-way tiebreaker to get to 22 overall. Hawks could have been picking at 14 and 25 instead of 13 and 22. this stuff all kind of broke the Hawks way in the last month or so. And in the meantime, that’s only a small thing. You got to make the picks and improve the roster. But, uh, a good night for the Hawks on that front. 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And then Charlotte, which is the one team that had a high chance to win this thing, comes in fourth. And it’s like, oh, this is going to be get pretty pretty crazy. And in the end, the Mavs win the lottery. And honestly, that’s the biggest story of the night, other than maybe the fact that Jason Tatum got hurt in pretty unfortunate fashion. Hopefully, it wasn’t as bad as it looked. Has not looked good. I I’m recording this late night Monday, so hopefully it’s gotten better since then. But that looked bad for Boston and bad for Tatum, and you hate to see that. So that was unfortunate. But other than that, the big story was Cooper Flag, of course, probably going to Dallas. You always want to say probably till it’s done, but almost certainly going to Dallas. And look, the reactions were swift. I was uh I would say more annoyed than I would almost ever be by a result that I don’t have any like investment in. I don’t care about Dallas. I don’t care about San Antonio. I don’t care any of these teams like beyond just being a somebody who covers the league and enjoys basketball. I thought Dallas getting rewarded is just kind of unfortunate because they have botched a lot of things. I think Nico Harrison had one of the worst processes you’ve ever seen with Luca trade. If you don’t like Luca, and I know Hawks fans don’t like Luca, a lot of them, that’s totally fine. I’m not saying anything about that. It was the process that was really the most like offensive to people around the league. Like they didn’t even try to figure out what the best deal was. It was a terrible process and suddenly you wake up three months later and they win the lottery and a potential like gamechanging prospect Cooper flag. That’s pretty tough to swallow if you are a neutral observer. Uh that was frustrating. But every year, like there’s always teams in every lottery that like I think don’t deserve it. Maybe it’s a weird way to frame that, but like don’t deserve to win it. Dallas this year would be one of one of those teams. I would also say New Orleans having won the lottery twice already with Anthony Davis and Zion and like those guys were gamechanging prospects to win the lottery twice and squander it basically like failed to build anything that was actually would be worth. Also, they had Chris Paul and they ran him out of town. All those things like they didn’t really earn it either. Um, you know, people were saying this about Utah because Utah tanks so brazenly this year. I get I get that they actually got unlucky they fell a five. Philadelphia this year, like, you know, did they really just win the lottery? It’s kind of tough. Like they did get really hurt and that wasn’t like their fault, but like that team winning the lottery would have been kind of weird. I just want to see uh anything but Dallas. It was tough. Anyway, that’s crazy more than anything else. So, I’ll talk about that now, but I’ll just say like people, I get why it’s being said. It’s not rigged. I I’m pretty confident in that. I, you know, it’s convenient to say and look, honestly, the situation looks kind of bad for everybody involved with the league. Um, if you’re a casual observer and you see what all happened there and suddenly Dallas wins the lottery, it’s like kind of a bad look. Unavoidable. Like, I have friends that were in the lottery room. Like, there’s 14 media members that cover the actual drawing that’s behind the scenes. You have to leave your phone somewhere else. like they’ve seen the process. It’s not rigged unless there’s a really elaborate job. I I I should say like it’d be very surprising if it was rigged. It’s kind of hard to do that in front of that many people, but it’s a bad look. It’s it’s unlucky for the league, I think, in some respects. Um but look, it’s it is what it is. That was crazy. Dallas wins and there’s a whole discussion to be had like Kyrie’s out for a while with the injury. AD uh doesn’t want to play center, but uh guess what AD, you’re playing center in Dallas. I don’t think that you are going to have Cooper play center. So all those interesting subplots, but that’s they could be pretty good as soon as Kyrie comes back storyline there. The biggest thing other other than that as the Spurs getting number two overall is actually fascinating from a league perspective, perhaps a trade down team, perhaps a trade out team, perhaps a Giannis team, all these things because in my opinion and in the opinions of a lot of people, not everyone, but most people I would say, Dylan Harper is the number two player in this class and he’s a big point guard from Rutgers. The Spurs just traded a bunch of stuff for De’Arren Fox, a fringe star point guard. And they also have Stefon Castle, who they think is incredible rookie of the year. And by the way, Stefon Castle famously in the draft process wants to play point guard, have the ball in his hands. So you have Fox and Castle already. They can’t really draft Dylan Harper without doing something else. That’d be a very odd thing to do while also keeping Fox and Castle. So do they trade that pick? Fascinating. No idea. The Sixers are in win now mode at number three overall. Um Mory has already said on the record they want to keep the pick. It’s too early to really know that, but they could tra that that could be a trade team to try to get something else to try to win in the short term. Charlotte is four, Washington, sorry, Utah is five, Washington six. Those are the the rebuilding teams are later later down the board. And then the Pelicans are seven, Nets, Raptors, Rockets at 10. Could be a trade team because they’re not exactly in slow building mode either. and then the Blazers, Bulls, and the Hawks at 13. By the way, uh if you are someone that cares about this, I I’m I’m of the mind says before that the picks the Hawks owe to San Antonio are kind of a sunk cost. You can’t worry about that right now. That those picks are they’re just gone. But that pick did not jump up. It became the 14th pick this year, which isn’t ideal. Obviously, the the first Dejonte trade was a very very bad trade. That was an overpay. It didn’t work out very well for the Hawks. We all understand that. But it it wasn’t a top five pick. So that that’s a little maybe solace for Hawks fans. It was only the 14th pick. It’s behind the Hawks and uh that’s out the door at this point in time. Anyway, just an absolutely crazy top of the lottery. The the Mads getting the number number one pick at one at a 1.8% chance of happening. This top four, I haven’t seen the number yet. I bet you the the chances of this top four happening were infantisimal. Like just one of those things, man. a crazy night and lots of reactions to sift through and like it’s it’s frustrating. It’s weird. It’s got all the conspiracy theories. They’re going to be out there. Um, but in the end, Cooper Flag probably going to Dallas and that’ll be very very interesting. And by the way, as a as someone who covers an Eastern Conference team, it would be really interesting as someone who covers the league in general, like put the Hawks aside for a second if just any of these top guys who are like clearly the number one player in their class. And when I say that, I mean WBY, Flag, Zion, AD, pick your guy. None of these guys ever go to the Eastern Conference. It’s unbelievable. Zion Pelicans, Wemby Spurs, Flag, Mavs, like AD Pelicans back like all of these like clear number one overall guys just for whatever reason up in the West and you’re there’s always this imbal there’s already this imbalance between the East and the West for a long time now about the West is just better and deeper and like you keep adding to it. It’s just kind of unlucky in some respects for the league. But there you have it. All right, quickly here before we move on to something else. Um some post lottery mockdraft updates. Um, I won’t go through all of the stuff now. It’s still too early on this. But right now, Jonathan Von and Jeremy Blue of ESPN have the Hawks taking Jess Richardson at 13 of Michigan State and Thomas Sorber of Georgetown number 22. Um, Samini of the Athletic has Nolan Trayori at 13 and Cedric Coward, a very interesting prospect off the radar guy from Washington State going to transfer to Duke if he stay if he stays out of the draft, but I think he’s gonna stay in at this point in time. High upside player at 22 at 22 overall. And then John Washerman of Bleacher Report has Colin Murray Boils at 13 from from South Carolina to the Hawks and Danny Wolf at 22. Those are the kind of the three most mainstream mock drafts that have come out in the last couple of hours since the drafts since the lottery actually was drawn. I have some notes on these guys like with measurements that I’ll save for later on, but a lot of the combine measurements started to leak out today. The combine is happening simultaneously. the first scrimmages that are publicly viewable are not till Wednesday, but a lot of the measurements happened uh yesterday and today. So, we’ll probably do a little bit segment on this later in the week about guys who measured interestingly. For example, just one here, Thomas Sorber, who’s actually been projected to the Hawks a few times now, I think by the Ringer, had him as well and then again ESPN had this great freshman year at Georgetown, but a big fan of his all year. He’s a center. He’s not undersized terribly, but he isn’t the traditional seven foot that every Hawks fan seems to want right now. But Sor measured him with a 76 wingspan despite being about 69 and a half without shoes. Um probably 6 610 and a half, 6’11ish with shoes. So not a small small guy, but not a huge guy either. But a 76 wingspan is pretty massive for a guy of his height. That made a lot of news today. A lot of waves making around the rounds there about Sorber’s wingspan, but also only like a 91 standing reach, which which isn’t bad for a center, but it’s like slightly below average. It’s like what Eve Mey had last year, for instance. So, kind of an odd body type, but he’s he’s big and bulky and strong. I like Sorber a lot. Um, but we’ll get into that much more later on. Just one example. But there were guys who measured well. Sorber was one of those. There were guys who measured poorly. Richardson, by the way, Michigan State, who I mentioned in this same discussion from ESPN’s mockdraft at 13, measured six foot and a half inch without shoes for a non-point guard. That’s a tough measurement for him. We’re getting a lot of this stuff later on, but uh mockdraft season is definitely now in full bloom. And I won’t do like updates all the time, but every once in a while, just worth checking in on that stuff. And by the way, as things get closer to the draft, mock draft become more and more intel based. What I mean by that is right now everybody’s mostly guessing. You might have a little bit of intel, but you’re try you’re trying to make logical fits. I’ve done mock tests for a long time. Logical fits and whatever. As you get closer and closer, you start to actually hear intel from teams what they actually want to do and that kind of increases the uh accuracy of a mock draft perhaps. So, in a month from now, you’ll know a lot more and the mockdrafts will matter a lot more, I would say, than they do right now. But right now, just a good opportunity to kind of take stock of some guys in the range for the Hawks. And as I said before, the range is very, very big in my opinion for the Hawks. And uh we’ll find out more in about six and a half weeks. 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We’ll be covering the draft free agency trade stuff all the way through June, July, August, etc. But one thing of note here, it’s kind of semi-reporting for me. The Hawks kind of gone back and forth in recent years on whether they actually publicly announce their pre-draft workouts. They never used to do this at all when I first started coming the team years and years ago and they started doing it a lot more a few years ago under Travis Schlank into the Landry era etc. They were pretty open about this for a while and then last year they kind of stopped doing that midstream. I was told by someone that would know today that the Hawks are not planning to announce their workouts this year. Not the biggest deal in the world obviously. If anything, these workouts are almost probably overreactionary to the public because they assume that every guy that comes in is like on the on the Hawks radar just to probably bigger degree than they actually are. But we’ll be relying on some reporting from myself and others obviously about who comes into town around the Hawks. Also, when they announce workouts, they also have media availabilities for the players that came into town. That’s the one big negative for people like me is not being able to talk to these guys and prospects in that setting. But in the meantime, you will not probably see as much of like the announcement of when guys are coming into town than you have at times in the past around the Hawks. All right, last that was last thing on the draft. One more mailbag question that’s kind of newsy but also not newsy at the same time. And bear with me, I will explain what that means in a second. A question from Tim. Did you see that Fischer and Stein mentioned the Magic and Rockets as trade rumor teams with Trey? I thought trade trade stuff wasn’t happening anymore, but suddenly that was on hoops hype. All right, so thanks for the question, Tim. I definitely appreciate that. I’m not kidding about that. Thank you for the questions and please send them in all the time. I don’t always do like mailbag calls, but the mailbag is always open, Twitter, blue sky, patreon, email, which is loft ongmail.com. Send them in. I will answer a bunch during the summer. But uh basically this question refers something that Mark Stein and Jake Fischer of the Stein Line Substack wrote on Sunday that I already kind of read before recording on Sunday night’s podcast. Even talked about something they actually wrote in that piece about increasing agency buzz around the front office search. But anyway, I will not read the entire paragraph that Tim’s referring to here. That’d be bad podcasting. But if you read it closely, it was pretty obviously just like secondhand speculation and not not not actual reporting of interest or rumors about Trey Young. Keep that in mind. Now, the section begins with Stein and Fischer saying that a talent evaluator they spoke with, quote, suggests it would be wise to test Atlanta’s resolve, end quote, about not trading Trey Young, which basically means that someone is speculating that the Rockets or the Magic should try to convince the Hawks to move Trey Young. That’s pretty natural. like that we this is it makes sense like Houston Orlando could have really used Trey Young. They’re two of the teams in the league that like very obviously need a primary initiator on offense which Trey Young of course is. He would be transformational for those teams. Um they’re both on defense. He would help their offense, all those things. But this is just someone speculating about that, not reporting on it at all. Uh, and then Stein and Fischer ended the section about this by saying, quote, “Such thoughts qualify as just one exec’s landscape projections.” End quote. So, long story short, this is not a rumor. This is not like reporting even. It’s just like speculation. And they put it in there. I get it. But, and this is not picking on Tim at all. I appreciate the question a lot. Um, it was on Hoopsite. I went and found it there. I will pull that up just to make sure I’m missing anything. Hoops hype is a you know decades um long aggregation service that kind of helps to cole stuff together that is rumor based and intel based and you know slot based all those things but people ask about this I do understand why why someone’s asking about this but it’s just one of those things if you actually read the original text together and not the aggregation just the actual text and carefully kind of go through it what they’re actually writing like I referenced this before but Jake Fischer who’s been on this podcast before reported a few weeks ago that like kind of pointed to the Hulks being more likely to keep Trey Young. And I’ve heard the same thing. But even then, Jake never said they’re definitely keeping Trey Young. And neither did I. Like it points that way. But there’s uncertainty with this new front office structure, all those things. And this is not a rumor. Basically, that’s the long story short of this. Not a rumor, not even close to a rumor at this point in time. This is an executive smartly pointing out, honestly, in my opinion, that the Magic Rockets should call the Hawks on Trey Young. And honestly, they should. trade would make those things better, but the Hawks don’t have to play ball with them at all. The Hawks should keep Trey Young in my opinion unless they’re bowled over by trade that I don’t want to see coming. Um, but anyway, that’s a non rumor, but it’s kind of one of those things that kind of made its way into the atmosphere. So, I wanted to like answer the question on the podcast, talk about that a little bit on the show, but mostly a draft based episode. And again, we’ll get into a lot of the measurement stuff, more deep dives on on players when it comes to the guys who are linked to the Hawks in the next six weeks. We’ll have guests on. I have hopefully one as soon as Wednesday. Well, stay tuned. Please subscribe to the podcast. I will be here throughout the season. Um, and by the season, I mean the summer season, but also the entire season. And every month, every week of the year, we have podcast content on this feed. So, subscribe on Apple, on Spotify, on YouTube, and like this video as you’re watching it, as well. Follow us as a show on XLT Twitter atonhawks. Follow me there at BT Roland. Follow me on Blue Sky if you want to at BT Roland. Also uh doing some nonpodcast content about the Hawks at patreon.com/btoland. All right, everybody. I appreciate you listening to the show. Hopefully you enjoyed this crazy lottery night, which is again a good one for the Hawks. We have much more to get to later on this week, and we’ll see you all next time.

Brad Rowland (@BTRowland) hosts Episode 1973 of the Locked on Hawks podcast, reacting to the 2025 NBA Draft Lottery. Topics include the Atlanta Hawks having two first round picks, the Dallas Mavericks winning the lottery, trade-up scenarios, post-lottery mock drafts, and much more.

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