What Time Is the NBA Draft? What Time Will Each Team Pick? Plus How to Watch 2025 NBA Draft
By Sascha Paruk in NBA Basketball
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- The NBA Draft takes place Wednesday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York
- What time does the draft start and how can you watch?
- See the NBA Draft start time, broadcast coverage, plus some info on the NBA bets you can make
The biggest event of the NBA offseason takes place tonight with the two-round 2025 NBA Draft at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The Dallas Mavericks are on the clock and are universally projected to take Duke’s Cooper Flagg with the first-overall pick.
Wondering what time the NBA Draft starts and how to watch the 2025 NBA Draft? Find that information below, along with details on how you can wager on the 2025 NBA Draft.
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What Time Is the NBA Draft?
The broadcast coverage of the 2025 NBA Draft will start at starts at 8:00 pm ET. But that doesn’t mean we’ll start seeing picks made at 8:00 pm ET/5:00 pm PT. Teams have four minutes to make their selection. so Dallas will likely take the stage around 8:05 pm ET.
If you’re only interested in one particular team that’s further down the board, here’s the full draft order for the first round, plus the estimated pick time for each team.
Keeping in mind that the NBA Draft is a massive TV event these days, you can expect the producers to make sure the next pick doesn’t take place until the full four minutes from the previous team has been made. It’s not a coincidence that the broadcast coverage is scheduled for two hours and four minutes x 30 picks = exactly two hours.
Of course, trades are likely throughout the night, so the team that’s currently slotted into each of the draft positions can and, in some cases, will change.
How to Watch the NBA Draft
The NBA Draft will be broadcast live on ABC and ESPN. ABC will carry just the first round, while ESPN will cover both rounds. As mentioned, the broadcast coverage starts at 8:00 pm ET/5:00 pm PT.
SBD has been tracking the NBA Draft odds since they opened, and it’s no secret that Cooper Flagg is going to be the first pick. But there are plenty of other ways to wager on it. If you’re interested in betting on the NBA Draft, my colleague Brady Trettenero set out his favorite NBA draft position over/under picks. I also published odds for the NBA top-10 picks, which includes a massive grid with the odds for every prospect to be taken with each of the first ten picks
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Sascha has been working in the sports-betting industry since 2014, and quickly paired his strong writing skills with a burgeoning knowledge of probability and statistics. He holds an undergraduate degree in linguistics and a Juris Doctor from the University of British Columbia.
