{"id":33478,"date":"2025-05-14T23:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/33478\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T23:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T23:44:13","slug":"new-orleans-pelicans-land-the-7th-overall-pick-in-the-2025-nba-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/33478\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Pelicans land the 7th overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (<a href=\"http:\/\/WWW.WGNO.COM\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"WWW.WGNO.COM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WGNO<\/a>) \u2014 The New Orleans Pelicans will have the seventh overall pick in the 2025 Draft after Monday\u2019s NBA Draft Lottery.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans had a 48 percent chance to land a top-four pick and a 12.5 percent chance to land the number one overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the Pelicans will draft behind the Dallas Mavericks, who landed the top pick in the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes, the Spurs, the 76ers, the Hornets, the Jazz, and the Wizards.<\/p>\n<p>Zion Williamson and Executive VP of Basketball Operations, Joe Dumars, represented the Pelicans in Chicago Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 NBA Draft runs June 25 and 26 on WGNO and ABC affiliates.<\/p>\n<p>Stay up to date with the latest news, weather and sports by downloading the WGNO app on the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wgno-news-new-orleans\/id593657931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Apple<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.tribtv.wgno\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Google Play<\/a> stores and by subscribing to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.wgno.com\/join\/6sd\/signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WGNO newsletter<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Latest Posts<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClose Modal<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (WGNO) \u2014 The New Orleans Pelicans will have the seventh overall pick in the 2025 Draft after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,10130,3125,171,6,12,478,470,4073,4072,675,745],"class_list":{"0":"post-33478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-pelicans","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dalllas-mavericks","10":"tag-joe-dumars","11":"tag-lottery","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-draft","14":"tag-new-orleans","15":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","16":"tag-neworleans","17":"tag-neworleanspelicans","18":"tag-pelicans","19":"tag-pick"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114508848489248808","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33478","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=33478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}