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Cooper Flagg goes No. 1 wide to the Mavs (1:15)

The Dallas Mavericks prime Duke prima Cooper Flagg with the No. 1 prime successful the 2025 NBA draft. (1:15)

ESPN staffJun 25, 2025, 08:24 PM ET

The Dallas Mavericks made the inevitable a world connected Wednesday by selecting Duke prima Cooper Flagg with the No. 1 prime successful the 2025 NBA draft.

Flagg is 18 years and 186 days old, making him the second-youngest No. 1 prime successful NBA draught history, down LeBron James (18 years, 178 days old) successful 2003, according to ESPN Research. He averaged 19.2 points, 7.5 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 1.4 steals and 1.4 blocks successful 1 play with the Blue Devils.

The Mavericks are the 4th squad successful the modern draught epoch (since 1966) to prime the No. 1 prime successful the NBA draught wrong a twelvemonth of reaching the NBA Finals -- they had a 1.8% accidental of winning the lottery and jumped 10 spots to unafraid the apical pick.

Flagg joins a Dallas squad that includes NBA champions Kyrie Irving, who suffered a torn ACL successful March, and Anthony Davis alongside Klay Thompson, P.J. Washington and Dereck Lively II.

He received a lukewarm invited to the Lone Star authorities arsenic section teams praised the Mavericks' youngest star.