2025 NBA Mock Draft 1.0: Debate at the top with Cooper Flagg and Dylan Harper

While there are many unknowns in the sports world as 2025 begins, here's one thing I can tell you: The 2025 NBA Draft will be a significant upgrade from last year's edition.

This class is chock-full of storylines that will make for a big event this summer in Brooklyn. The one-and-done freshmen will be back at the top of the board after we saw only two college players in the first six selections of last summer's draft.

The first debate is obvious:

Cooper Flagg or Dylan Harper ?

First and foremost, it bears noting that there really was no debate before the college basketball season began about whether Flagg, the Duke phenom and Maine native, was going at the top of the draft board. However, I give credit to Harper, the 6-foot-6 Scarlet Knights guard out of Don Bosco Prep, for giving us the entertainment of the question at the top of this draft.

Flagg is still the favorite and, for all intents and purposes, I believe he'll go No. 1 in this draft. The 6-9 forward has averaged 17.5 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game while shooting 46% from the floor for a top-five Duke team. Jon Scheyer relies on Flagg to be a primary ball handler, shot-taker and, of course, his best defender, with a wingspan of over 7-feet and athleticism and feel for the game that is off the charts. Flagg presents the whole package, and we haven't seen the best from him at the college level. 

As for Harper, he plays alongside another potential top-three pick, Ace Bailey, to form an electrifying freshman duo at Rutgers. Averaging 21.1 points, 5.2 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game while shooting an incredibly efficient 52% from the floor, Harper already has two 35-plus point performances on the season, and they came in back-to-back games