NBA Draft Order 2015: Lottery Odds, Complete List of 1st-Round Picks

The NBA draft lottery is quickly approaching on Tuesday, when it will be easier to determine how to order the top prospects and where they might land in mock drafts.

Until then, it's all a bit more speculative, but at least the odds are out there to get an idea of how the first round will look. Carrying the best odds of landing the No. 1 overall pick are the Minnesota Timberwolves, followed by the New York Knicks.

Check out the complete first-round order as it stands, in addition to the lottery odds:

Draft No.	Team	Probability for No. 1 Overall Pick
1	Minnesota Timberwolves	25%
2	New York Knicks	19.9%
3	Philadelphia 76ers	15.6%
4	Los Angeles Lakers	11.9%
5	Orlando Magic	8.8%
6	Sacramento Kings	6.3%
7	Denver Nuggets	4.3%
8	Detroit Pistons	2.8%
9	Charlotte Hornets	1.7%
10	Miami Heat	1.1%
11	Indiana Pacers	0.7%
12	Utah Jazz	0.7%
13	Phoenix Suns	0.6%
14	Oklahoma City Thunder	0.5%
15	Atlanta Hawks (via Brooklyn Nets)
16	Boston Celtics
17	Milwaukee Bucks
18	Houston Rockets (via New Orleans Pelicans)
19	Washington Wizards
20	Toronto Raptors
21	Dallas Mavericks
22	Chicago Bulls
23	Portland Trail Blazers
24	Cleveland Cavaliers
25	Memphis Grizzlies
26	San Antonio Spurs
27	Los Angeles Lakers (via Houston Rockets)
28	Boston Celtics (via Los Angeles Clippers)
29	Brooklyn Nets (via Atlanta Hawks)
30	Golden State Warriors

The draft itself won't happen until June 25, leaving plenty of time to pick apart every player and run through numerous mock scenarios until the date finally arrives.

One of the most interesting aspects of Minnesota potentially landing the first pick is the chance to have each of the last three No. 1 overall players. The Timberwolves landed Anthony Bennett and Andrew Wiggins in the massive Kevin Love trade last offseason.

Wiggins looks like a legitimate franchise cornerstone after winning NBA Rookie of the Year, while Bennett looks like a full-blown bust. It's critical for Minnesota to hit its choice no matter where it's picking in the top several spots.

In terms of the can't-miss players coming out this year, AZCentral.com's Doug Haller offers his opinion on some of the very elite:

The two marquee big men are Kentucky's Karl-Anthony Towns and Duke national champion Jahlil Okafor. Each freshman phenom has tremendous upside and room to grow their games. Towns seems like the readier pro with a better perimeter game an defense. Okafor has size and strength that can't be taught, not to mention a knack for dominating in the post when he's fully engaged.

But the modern NBA tends to favor perimeter players, making Ohio State's D'Angelo Russell perhaps the best prospect in the draft. Russell has impeccable passing instincts to go with outstanding ball-handling skills and a lethal outside shot. 

NBA.com's Scott Howard-Cooper logged what Russell had to say at the combine regarding his status ahead of the draft:

Having that kind of confidence bodes well for the former Buckeye—especially when he has the game to back it up.

It's bold to say Russell brings to mind a little bit of reigning NBA MVP Stephen Curry—at least on the surface. Then one realizes that Russell lacks the elite athleticism and quickness many detractors figured would doom Curry when he came out of Davidson.

Russell doesn't have quite the flashiness Curry does and isn't as good of a shooter, but he projects better as a pure distributor and could well be the best player in this 2015 class.

This 2015 draft is rather top-heavy, filled with intriguing international prospects such as Kristaps Porzingis and Mario Hezonja, not to mention dynamic Duke forward Justise Winslow and Emmanuel Mudiay. The only competition Russell has as the first guard off the board is Mudiay, who'd originally committed to play under Larry Brown at SMU before opting to play pro ball in China.

Although Mudiay could be a worthwhile gamble based on his superior perceived upside to Russell, the latter could be another example of how passing on a Curry-esque player haunts multiple franchises for years to come.