The 2025 NBA Draft Lottery is now complete, and the San Antonio Spurs own the No. 2 overall pick.
The Spurs posted the NBA's eighth-worst record in the 2024/25 season at 34-48, and there's a possibility that they trade the pick to acquire a star to pair with San Antonio's current franchise player, Victor Wembanyama.
Ahead of the 2025 NBA Draft, let's take a look at the odds to be selected with the second pick in the draft.
Dylan Harper | -2000 |
Airious Bailey | +1400 |
VJ Edgecombe | +2500 |
Tre Johnson | +6500 |
Cooper Flagg | +10000 |
Former Rutgers point guard Dylan Harper (-2000) is the heavy favorite to be selected second in the 2025 draft, and he's been the consensus second-best player in this draft for much of the run-up to it.
Harper averaged 19.4 points, 4.6 rebounds, 4.0 assists, and 1.4 steals while shooting 48.4 percent overall and 33.3 percent from three-point range. The 6-foot-6 guard could make for an awkward fit in the Spurs' backcourt in the short-term if they decide to take him, but a young core of Harper, Wembanyama, and 2024/25 Rookie of the Year Stephon Castle could be too much for the team to pass up.
Airious 'Ace' Bailey (+1400), college teammate of Harper and the consensus No. 3 player in this draft, is second in the betting to be picked second.
The 6-foot-10 wing has prototypical size and athleticism, but the knock on him is that he shoots a lot from midrange and does not make shots consistently enough from beyond the arc or right around the basket. He averaged 17.6 points, 7.2 rebounds, 1.3 assists, 1.0 steal, and 1.3 blocks while shooting 46.0 percent overall and 34.6 percent from three in his one season at Rutgers.
Third in the market is former Baylor guard VJ Edgecombe (+2500). The high-flying off-ball guard averaged 15.0 points, 5.6 rebounds, 3.2 assists, and 2.1 steals while shooting 43.6 percent overall and 34.0 percent from three. He showed he can impact games in a number of ways at the college level, and getting more efficient will be his top priority as rookie.
Tre Johnson (+6500), the former Texas guard who led the SEC in scoring with 19.9 points per game, is a distant fourth in the odds. He's less of an all-around threat compared to Edgecombe, but he shot 39.7 percent from three-point range as a freshman, taking 6.8 threes per game.
Further back in the odds are former Duke forward and presumed No. 1 pick Cooper Flagg (+10000), former Maryland center Derik Queen (+15000), former Oklahoma point guard Jeremiah Fears (+15000), and former Duke center Khaman Maluach (+15000).
Odds displayed within this article were correct at the time of writing and are subject to change.