NBA draft 2025: Projections, prospects, protections to watch

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The NBA season is only two months old, but it is not too early to look ahead to the draft lottery in May.

The teams jockeying for position to draft top prospects Cooper Flagg, Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey are either in the middle stages of rebuilding, have been impacted by injuries or underachieved through the first quarter of the season.

The Indiana Pacers, coming off a trip to the Eastern Conference finals, are an early potential lottery team. So are the Philadelphia 76ers, who won the offseason by signing free agent wing Paul George but find themselves in the conference's basement at 5-15. Philly is currently looking up at rebuilding teams such as the Detroit…