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The Most Baffling Picks of the 2025 NBA Draft

Four teams made strange selections, even if I liked the players they picked

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Jeremias Engelmann
Jun 26, 2025
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This is Part 1 of my two-part draft reaction.

In Part 2, Iโ€™ll get into the Winners and Losers, including the best and strangest trades โ€” looking at you, New Orleans.

Here are four teams that are doing some things right but whose first-round picks made no sense to me:

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Basketball analyst. Creator of ESPN's Real Plus-Minus. Formerly with the Phoenix Suns and Dallas Mavericks
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