The 2025 NBA Draft discourse is heating up as the College Basketball season wraps up and NBA regular season is on ice.
After this week’s NBA Play-In tournament wraps up, the NBA Draft Lottery standings will be set for May’s drawing to determine the 2025 NBA Draft order. Before that date, Draft expert Derek Parker released his latest 2025 NBA Mock Draft.
In this lottery shuffle, the Dallas Mavericks landed the No. 14 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. This has been a season full of drama for the Mavericks who shipped Luka Doncic to Los Angeles on Feb. 1 to play for the Purple and Gold and send the Mavs off the rails.
“At No. 14 it is the now changed Dallas Mavericks. who have an obvious need at point guard following one of the most shocking trades in NBA history. There is no fixing Dallas with a single lottery pick, they are now an oddly constructed roster with a weird mix of young and old talent, so instead of trying to add a player to some pipe dream 2026 run, I am going to draft a project and hope it works out,” Parker explained. “That project is jumbo guard Egor Demin…This is a Mavericks organization that is familar with the archetype and now in desparate need of talent at the guard position. You might as well swing on Demin while you are in the lottery.”
This is a great pick by Parker for the Mavericks and if Nico Harrison was able to pull the trigger on this move, it would help Dallas for the present and future.
Sure, there are concerns about Demin and his ability to make a high impact out of the shoot, he is rightfully labeled a project by the draft expert. However, with the Mavericks lacking Kyrie Irving for a large chunk of the regular season, if Jason Kidd can get Demin up to speed and into the rotation as a rookie, the table setter can help the Mavericks win enough games for Irving to return and carry the Mavericks over the finish line and into the playoffs.
