" [Stern] says to me, 'Hey, can't wait for you to come to the NBA ,'" O'Neal said on Ashley Nevel's podcast. "Then he pulled me off to the side. 'You want to play where it's cold or where it's hot?' He asked me that.

NBA draft lottery on Monday revealed the final order with teams vying for players such as Cooper Flagg. See the lottery results:

The NBA draft lottery has seemingly always been ripe with conspiracy theories. We can go back to 1985 and the various stories of a frozen envelope that led to the Knicks getting Patrick Ewing.

Shaquille O’Neal only did more to fan the flames of the NBA draft conspiracy theorists with a David Stern story around him landing first overall to the Magic in 1992.

It's been a busy week for NBA front offices as last week's lottery finally determined the order of picks in next month's draft, and simultaneously fueled speculation about potential trades, beginning as early as the second pick.

Monday night's 2025 NBA Draft lottery sent the first-overall pick to the Dallas Mavericks in a shock, and plenty of winners and losers emerged from how the chips fell. 2025 NBA Mock Draft 5.0 ...

Five weeks and one day stands between us and the 2025 NBA Draft. That's it. And after last week's lottery and NBA Draft Combine in Chicago that saw the Dallas Mavericks win the No. 1 pick in stunning fashion,