The Chicago Bulls ended up with the no. 12 overall NBA draft pick after an unlucky tiebreaker coin flip. The Dallas Mavericks walked away with the first pick in June's 2025 draft, and the first chance to take Cooper Flagg,

Monday was a big day for Duke star Cooper Flagg as he learned of his (likely) future home for the foreseeable future. To start the day at the NBA Draft Combine he measured nearly an inch taller than he did before his one-and-done Blue Devils season.

The Chicago Bulls got the 12th pick in the 2025 NBA Draft after an ill-fated coin toss with the Dallas Mavericks.

A day after the 2025 NBA draft lottery, the top prospects in the class showed off Tuesday in front of talent evaluators at the combine in Chicago.

Well, the NBA Draft Lottery gods have a sense of humor. So much for the idea of Cooper Flagg going to a 20-win team. Instead, a statistically improbable Dallas Mavericks-San Antonio Spurs-Philadelphia 76ers-Charlotte Hornets top four upended all our previous assumptions about what might happen in the lead-up to the NBA Draft.

Back in 2008, the Chicago Bulls had a slim 1.7% chance of winning the NBA Draft lottery, and lucked into picking Derrick Rose at No. 1 overall. Facing the exact same long odds this year, with the lottery once again taking place in the Bulls' backyard at McCormick Place,

Boogie Fland was among the prospects invited to the combine and was scheduled to participate in the scrimmages, beginning Wednesday in Chicago.

Dallas, somehow, won the No. 1 pick. What went on in the lottery room? And what were people talking about before and after?