{"id":732689,"date":"2026-05-12T20:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/732689\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:51:21","slug":"mallory-edens-responds-to-nba-draft-lottery-appearance-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/732689\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallory Edens Responds To NBA Draft Lottery Appearance Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mallory Edens once again appeared at the NBA<\/a> Draft Lottery this weekend. The daughter of Milwaukee Bucks owner Wes Edens first appeared at the NBA Draft Lottery in 2014. That year, the Bucks earned the No. 2 overall pick in the NBA Draft.<\/p>\n

This year, the Bucks didn’t have as much luck. They ended up with the No. 10 overall pick. Edens, understandably, was disappointed. However, she still enjoyed the opportunity.<\/p>\n

Edens, who went viral back in 2014 for her appearance<\/a>, received some criticism from a fan for her appearance in 2026. She handled it well, though.<\/p>\n

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Mallory Edens speaks out.Edens&sol;IG<\/p>\n

“(Expletive) she aging fast. Remember when she was a smokeshow and the talk of the draft lottery when she first appeared,” one fan wrote on X.<\/p>\n

Edens responded: “The first time I did the lottery, I was in highschool. I had turned 18 a few weeks beforehand and every single one of the photos of me in a bikini that went viral on the internet in the aftermath were taken when I was 15 or 16 years old. Of course I have aged – I was a child.<\/p>\n

“I find it so strange that women are asked to delay womanhood as long as possible in favor of some kind of eternal girlhood. I don\u2019t want to be a girl, I don\u2019t aspire to look like a teenager. I am very happy to be a woman. If your beauty standard for me is to look like a child that\u2019s your problem but not mine. This is not the insult that you think it is.”<\/p>\n

Edens was ‘hurt’ by the 2014 NBA Draft Lottery moment<\/p>\n

Edens admitted that back in 2014, when she first went viral, she was hurt by everything said about her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually think people actually don\u2019t know that much about me and I think that the biggest misconception \u2014 is just that they don\u2019t know that much about me,\u201d Edens said on a podcast. \u201cI went really viral on the internet at a really young age and it put me in this place where I felt so protective of myself because the things people were saying online about me at that time felt so harmful.<\/p>\n

“And I don\u2019t know that I\u2019ve ever if really left that protective casing. So, I think the misconception is just I don\u2019t think people know me that well online.\u201d<\/p>\n

Good for Edens for speaking out.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published by The Spun<\/a> on May 12, 2026, where it first appeared in the NBA<\/a> section. Add The Spun as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mallory Edens once again appeared at the NBA Draft Lottery this weekend. The daughter of Milwaukee Bucks owner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,1914,66693,6,41961],"class_list":["post-732689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-draft-lottery","tag-mallory-edens","tag-nba","tag-wes-edens"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116563586853250499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732689","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=732689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}