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2025 NBA Draft Combine winners: Raynaud, Lendeborg and Byrd<\/p>\n
These 2025 NBA draft prospects are the biggest winners from the NBA Draft Combine<\/p>\n
There appears to be very little mystery this year at the top of the 2025 NBA draft. The assumption is Duke<\/a>‘s Cooper Flagg<\/a> will be the No. 1 selection, even if the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> were to make another shocking trade and deal the pick they won in last week’s NBA draft lottery<\/a>. Artificial intelligence has picked up on that sense of certainty ahead of next month’s event at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n While AI predictions for some prospects vary from the most influential NBA mock drafts, the projection for Flagg aligned with conventional thinking when USA TODAY Sports<\/a> asked Microsoft Copilot<\/a> to run a simulation of the 2025 NBA draft first round based on team needs, player rankings and draft order. The prospects selected after him, however, is where the AI and draft experts began to diverge<\/p>\n The simulation, for instance, was a little higher on Maryland’s Derik Queen<\/a> than most mock drafts and a little lower on Oklahoma guard Jeremiah Fears<\/a>. It had Georgia’s Asa Newell<\/a>, Saint Joseph’s Rasheer Fleming<\/a> and Israeli guard Ben Saraf <\/a>as top-20 picks when most don’t and predicted others expecting to go in the first round to slide. It appears, at the very least, to be a better representation than earlier attempts to get AI predictions for this year’s NBA draft<\/a>. Maybe the NBA draft combine helped clear things up (and led to more published mock drafts).<\/p>\n Here’s a breakdown of the 2025 NBA draft first-round picks made by Microsoft Copilot AI, as well as how to watch next month when the league’s teams gather in Brooklyn to make their selections:<\/p>\n