The 2025 NBA Draft early entry list has been released. While the Charlotte Hornets will be hoping to luck out for Duke's Cooper Flagg, the initial mock draft by The Athletic believes the to pick will go to the Washington Wizards.
"This year's early entry list is much less substantial than what we’ve seen in the past," according to The Athletic's Sam Vecenie. "Mainly because of the proliferation of the name, image and likeness (NIL) marketplace in college basketball, there are only 106 early entrants to the NBA Draft, a drastically lower number than the 195 who entered last year and the 242 who entered the year before.