The "NBA is rigged" crowd exploded on Monday night after the Dallas Mavericks won the lottery with a 1.8% chance of getting the first pick. After trading away Luka Doncic and squeezing into the lottery by one game,

The Dallas Mavericks won this year's NBA draft lottery, earning the right to land projected No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg.

Everyone was shocked when the Dallas Mavericks won the 2025 NBA draft lottery, no one more so that ESPN's studio crew. The Mavericks entered the night with a 1.8% chance to landing the No. 1 pick in the draft and somehow pulled it off.