Cooper Flagg, Dylan Harper, Bailey Among Players Reportedly Invited to 2025 NBA Draft

Projected top overall pick Cooper Flagg and his family have been invited to attend the 2025 NBA Draft, according to ESPN's Jonathan Givony.

Other projected lottery picks that landed invites include Rutgers' Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey, Baylor's VJ Edgecombe, Duke's Khaman Maluach and Kon Knueppel, Oklahoma's Jeremiah Fears and Texas' Tre Johnson.

The Dallas Mavericks are slated to select first when the 2025 NBA draft begins on June 25 in Brooklyn, New York.

Givony noted that potential lottery selection Noa Essengue is still playing for Germany's Ratiopharm Ulm and has not yet been invited to the event.

Depending on the German league playoff results, Essengue may not be able to attend the draft at all, according to Givony.

Essengue is the only player projected in Jonathan Wasserman's latest B/R mock draft as a top-10 pick who did not receive an initial invite to the green room.

The only other prospect projected as a lottery pick by Wasserman who reportedly has not yet received an invite is South Carolina's Collin Murray-Boyles.

According to Givony, 11 more players will be invited "in waves" to attend the draft at the Barclays Center.

Givony wrote that green room invitations are determined by asking front office leaders of teams with first-round picks to "vote on the top 25 players they expect to hear their names called first."

Each invited player can bring six people to sit with them in front of the podium while they wait for NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to announce draft picks, per Givony.

Last year, Zaccharie Risacher, Alex Sarr, Donovan Clingan, Reed Sheppard, Matas Buzelis, Stephon Castle, Dalton Knecht, Tidjane Salaün, Ron Holland II, Cody Williams, Devin Carter and Ja'Kobe Walter received the first wave of invitations, according to Givony.

All 12 players ultimately heard their names called among the top 20 selections in the 2024 NBA draft.