The first round of the 2025 NBA Draft is in the books.<\/p>\n
It went as expected<\/a>. It went in ways that no one saw coming<\/a>. It went as every draft does, with every team leaving Barclays Center believing it is better than it was that morning (check out the first-round grades<\/a> from The Post\u2019s Zach Braziller).<\/p>\n Here are the takeaways from draft Night 1 in Brooklyn:<\/p>\n Raise the Flagg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first round of the 2025 NBA Draft is in the books. It went as expected. It went…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[224,7,4517,670,247,3803,225,149,226,6,9160,671,3823,474,66,196,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-126170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-nets","8":"tag-ace-bailey","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-beyond-the-back-page","11":"tag-brooklyn","12":"tag-brooklyn-nets","13":"tag-brooklynnets","14":"tag-cooper-flagg","15":"tag-dallas-mavericks","16":"tag-dylan-harper","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-nba-draft-2025","19":"tag-nets","20":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","21":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-sports-plus","24":"tag-utah-jazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114749591278230185","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}