Jack McKessy

2 days ago | usatoday.com | Jack McKessy

The 2025 NBA Draft kicks off with its first of two rounds on Wednesday, June 25. What is the full draft order for this year's 59 selections? All 30 picks in the first round of this year's draft will take place on Wednesday night, with the Dallas Mavericks starting things off after winning the NBA's draft lottery and the rights to the No. 1 overall pick.

2 days ago | usatoday.com | Jack McKessy

Draft day has arrived for the NBA. The 2025 NBA Draft will get underway with its first round on Wednesday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. But before it does, experts around the internet have gotten one last chance to make their mock draft predictions for the draft's first 30 picks. Unsurprisingly, Duke's Cooper Flagg is still the consensus expectation to hear his name called with this year's No. 1 overall pick.

3 days ago | usatoday.com | Jack McKessy

Artificial intelligence, as it turns out, is not quite intelligent enough to put together a full 2025 NBA mock draft. It is, however, good enough to predict the lottery picks – the first 14 selections – in this year's draft and provide some short analysis for each one. USA TODAY Sports used ChatGPT to put together a full, first-round mock draft for the 2025 NBA Draft.

3 days ago | usatoday.com | Jack McKessy

Baltimore was too cold for former Ravens receiver Diontae Johnson. Perhaps the weather in, uh, Cleveland will be more agreeable for one of the Browns' newest pass-catchers. In a recent interview with the Sports & Suits podcast, Johnson confessed that he refused to enter a game for the Ravens last season because he was cold. "End of the third going into the fourth, they were like, 'Tae, we need you,'" Johnson said.

3 days ago | usatoday.com | Jack McKessy

Aaron Rodgers said Tuesday that 2025 may be his final year in the NFL. If he does hang it up after this season, how much money will he have made over the course of his career? Rodgers' career earnings had already reached more than $300 million by the time he left the Green Bay Packers in 2023. His two seasons with the New York Jets moved him within striking distance of reaching $400 million in career earnings.