2025 NBA Draft grades, first-round pick-by-pick analysis: Mavs get A+ for Cooper Flagg, but Ace Bailey to Utah?

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How did teams perform on Day 1 of the 2025 NBA Draft? Let's hand out grades for every first-round pick. Grade: A+ Hard to believe this is actually happening just five months after the Mavericks shockingly traded Luka Dončić. Yet here we are. Flagg is officially a Mav, and he has a chance to be great enough to win back the fans. He can help Dallas in both the short term and long term as a do-it-all forward who hustles like a madman, makes his teammates better as a passer and has dialed in a knockdown jumper. He’s both the...